Jackson Chourio, a 22-year-old player for the Milwaukee Brewers, hit a walk-off single against San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller to secure a 4-3 victory in Game 2 of the National League Division Series. Despite facing fastballs clocked at up to 104 mph from Miller, Chourio managed to stay alive and capitalize on a hanging slider, ultimately hitting a 101.3 mph fastball for a game-winning hit. This dramatic moment made Chourio the second-youngest player in MLB history with a postseason walk-off hit.
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On Sunday during Game 2 of the NLDS, Jackson Chourio, a 22-year-old player for the Milwaukee Brewers, hit a decisive walk-off single against the San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller. With the Brewers down to their last strike and facing a 98% win probability for the Padres, Chourio lined a 101.3 mph fastball through the middle of the field in the bottom of the ninth inning. This hit scored runners Christian Yelich and Sal Frelick, securing a 4-3 victory for Milwaukee. Miller had previously struck out 12 batters among his first 15 faced that game, underscoring the dramatic nature of Chourio's pivotal at-bat.
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Mason Miller threw Jackson Chourio a 100 mph fastball to begin the biggest at-bat of the Milwaukee Brewers season.
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Miller → throw → season
Then he threw him a 102 mph and a 104 mph fastball for strikes.
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he → throw → strikes
As Miller continued to throw gas up in the zone, Chourio did his best to battle them off knowing that the San Diego Padres closer was baiting him and soon going to throw a slider.
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closer → continue → slider
A hanging slider that was low in the zone.
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that → hang → zone
Chourio remarkably laid off it to stay alive.
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Chourio → lay → it
With the count 2-2, Miller threw another 101 mph fastball up in the zone.
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Miller → throw → zone
This time Chourio was ready and he beat the best closer in baseball.
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he → beat → baseball
Milwaukee’s 22-year-old star lined Miller’s 101.3 mph fastball through the middle with two outs in the bottom of the ninth Sunday, scoring Christian Yelich and Sal Frelick for a stunning 4-3 walk-off victory over the Padres in Game 2 of the NLDS.
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star → line → NLDS
The Padres entered the ninth with a 3-2 lead and a 98% win probability, handing the baseball to a pitcher who had spent October turning opposing hitters into strikeout statistics.
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who → enter → statistics
Miller retired Milwaukee in order in the eighth, giving him 12 strikeouts among his first 15 batters faced this postseason — an MLB record.
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Miller → retire → batters
After Miller retired the first batter of the ninth, Yelich walked and stole second.
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Yelich → retire → ninth
Frelick walked.
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Frelick → walk → ?
Andrew Vaughn flied out, bringing San Diego within one out of escaping Milwaukee with a split.
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Vaughn → flie → split
Instead, Gary Sánchez worked a full-count walk to load the bases.
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Sánchez → work → bases
Up came Chourio.
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Chourio → come → ?
Miller attacked him with the kind of velocity that has made October at American Family Field resemble a drag strip.
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October → attack → strip
His fastball registered 104 mph.
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fastball → register → mph
Chourio eventually fell behind with two strikes but refused to become another name on Miller’s growing list of strikeout victims.
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Chourio → fall → victims
On the sixth pitch of the at-bat, Chourio barreled a 101.3 mph fastball back through the box, just beyond Jake Cronenworth’s desperate diving attempt.
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Chourio → barrel → attempt
Yelich scored.
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Yelich → score → ?
Frelick followed.
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Frelick → follow → ?
The Brewers poured from their dugout while Miller walked off the mound having experienced something few hitters have managed to give him:
Defeat.
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hitters → pour → him
“Happy I could come through with that hit there,” Chourio said through an interpreter.
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Chourio → come → interpreter
“I’ve got my family here in the stands, so I dedicate this one to them.
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I → get → them
At 22 years, 80 days, Chourio became the second-youngest player in MLB history with a postseason walk-off hit, behind only Edgar Renteria in 1997.
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Chourio → become → 1997
And this was no ordinary arm he conquered.
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he → conquer → ?
Miller and Brewers flamethrower Jacob Misiorowski have helped turn this NLDS into baseball’s velocity series.
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Miller → help → series
Through two games, the teams have combined for 83 pitches of at least 100 mph, already an MLB postseason series record and it isn’t even close.
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it → combine → mph
The Padres and Brewers have almost doubled that total in half the games.
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Padres → double → games
But the 83rd and final pitch of over 100 mph in Game 2 of the NLDS on Sunday was the only one that mattered.
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that → matter → Sunday
The Padres were one strike away from tying the series.
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Padres → tie → series
Instead, Chourio turned into a 2-0 Milwaukee lead to send the series to San Diego where the Padres will need to make some history of their own.
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Padres → turn → own
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