Minnesota Twins (13-8 Edgar Martinez Jersey , first in the AL Central) vs. Houston Astros (14-9, second in the AL West)Houston; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Houston and Minnesota will meet at Minute Maid Park on Wednesday.The Astros are 7-1 in home games. Houston’s team on-base percentage of .353 is fourth in the MLB. Alex Bregman leads the team with an OBP of .429.The Twins are 8-4 on the road. The Minnesota pitching staff as a whole has an ERA of 4.60. Jose Berrios leads the team with a 2.97 earned run average. The Astros won the last meeting 10-4. Hector Rondon recorded his second victory and Jose Altuve went 1-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs for Houston. Trevor Hildenberger took his first loss for Minnesota.TOP PERFORMERS: Altuve leads the Astros with nine home runs and is batting .289. George Springer is 12-for-39 with three doubles, four home runs and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games for Houston.Eddie Rosario leads the Twins with 10 home runs and has 23 RBIs. Mitch Garver is 15-for-34 with four doubles, five home runs and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games for Minnesota.LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 6-4, .278 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runsTwins: 6-4, .277 batting average Ryon Healy Jersey , 4.96 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runsAstros Injuries: Joe Smith: 10-day IL (achilles), Lance McCullers Jr.: 10-day IL (elbow).Twins Injuries: Addison Reed: 10-day IL (thumb), Gabriel Moya: 10-day IL (shoulder), Matt Magill: 10-day IL (shoulder), Miguel Sano: 10-day IL (heel). LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time since the Milwaukee Brewers began their incredible late-season surge, their bats went cold enough to lose.The Brewers managed just eight hits over 13 innings in their 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night, evening the NL Championship Series at 2 games apiece.With the chance to move to the brink of the World Series, a lineup that was resourceful and powerful throughout the regular season and in the division series couldn’t hit a homer or string together any significant rallies.Just two of the Brewers’ hits went for extra bases. They went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , stranding 10 runners.Those struggles made it even more painful when Manny Machado slid home with the winning run on Cody Bellinger’s single.“There’s a bunch of guys we need offense from,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “We’ve got some good contributions from guys at the bottom. But I think a bunch of guys are not really on it right now offensively.”The most prominent struggler is Christian Yelich, the likely NL MVP from nearby Thousand Oaks. He went 1 for 5 with a single and a walk in Game 4, dropping the regular-season triple crown contender to 3 for 16 (.188) with no extra-base hits or RBIs in the NLCS.Yelich isn’t alone in his slump, however: Milwaukee is batting .224 through four games in the NLCS, striking out 41 times — which would seem like a lot if the Dodgers hadn’t struck out 49 times.“We had opportunities that we didn’t take advantage of,” Yelich said. “Eventually it’s going to catch up to you. It was a hard-fought game. It was a great baseball game, it really was. Both sides had opportunities, and they were just able to catch one in there at the end.”The Brewers hadn’t scored fewer than two runs in a game since Pittsburgh blanked them on Sept. 22. Milwaukee promptly won its final seven regular-season games and an NL Central tiebreaker against the Chicago Cubs to earn its first division title since 2011 http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , and the Brewers did more than enough at the plate in a sweep of Colorado in the Division Series.While they haven’t pounded the ball with the proficiency of Boston or Houston, the Brewers entered Game 4 of the NLCS leading the playoffs with a .265 team batting average.But Milwaukee lost for just the second time in its last 15 games because the Brewers didn’t generate nearly enough offense to back their pitching staff, which turned in another stellar night of work. Even in their only other loss during this 15-game stretch, the Brewers scored three runs in Game 2 of the NLCS.Ryan Braun contributed three singles in Game 4, but the rest of the lineup was dire. Milwaukee got only two runners to third base, none after the seventh inning.Lorenzo Cain went 0 for 6 in the leadoff spot. Mike Moustakas also went 0 for 6, while Jonathan Schoop, Jesus Aguilar and Orlando Arcia were a combined 2 for 15.Pinch-hitter Domingo Santana drove in the Brewers’ only run with a fifth-inning double that scored Arcia. Manny Pina led off the seventh with a double punctuated by a big celebration at second base, but he didn’t score.The Dodgers’ defense also contributed to the woes with several nifty plays Felix Hernandez Jersey , including Cody Bellinger’s full-stretch, diving catch of Cain’s sinking liner leading off the 10th.The Brewers don’t have much time to fix their woes, but Counsell might need to contemplate more lineup changes for Game 5. Moustakas is 2 for 17 with six strikeouts in the NLCS, while Cain is 4 for 20 with seven strikeouts and Aguilar is 3 for 14.“I think there’s a bunch of guys we need to get going, and we will,” Counsell said. “I think good players will get good offense going, and we’re going to need it, and I expect it to happen.”