{"id":191942,"date":"2025-10-05T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191942\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:52:08","slug":"brewers-chourio-tests-hamstring-status-for-game-2-of-nlds-is-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191942\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers’ Chourio tests hamstring, status for Game 2 of NLDS is uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> outfielder Jackson Chourio<\/a>\u2019s status for Game 2 of the NL Division Series against the Chicago Cubs remained uncertain Sunday, a day after he\u00a0underwent an MRI\u00a0on his right hamstring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that we\u2019re going to test some things today,\u201d Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be out there today. I don\u2019t know that he\u2019ll do much, but the MRI came back and it\u2019s inconclusive. And it\u2019s not a serious hamstring strain, but it\u2019s not necessarily something that won\u2019t limit him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Game 2 of the best-of-five series is Monday night. The Cubs plan to start left-hander Shota Imanaga (9-8, 3.73 ERA in regular season), while the Brewers will use lefty Aaron Ashby (5-2, 2.16) as an opener.<\/p>\n

Chourio went 3 for 3 with three RBIs in the first two innings of the Brewers’\u00a09-3 Game 1 victory\u00a0Saturday before leaving in the second inning with tightness in his right hamstring. He became the first player ever to have three hits in the first two innings of a playoff game.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old hurt his hamstring while running to first on an infield single. Chourio had\u00a0missed a month\u00a0of the regular season because of a strain to the same hamstring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to kind of see how he feels,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to go through some testing, and if he feels anything, we\u2019re going to shut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chourio had expressed confidence after Saturday’s game that the issue wasn’t serious. But he made similar comments after\u00a0straining his hamstring\u00a0on July 29 and then didn’t play again until Aug. 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel good right now,\u201d Chourio said through an interpreter after Saturday’s game. \u201cCompared to the last time that this happened, I feel like I\u2019m in a very good position.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brewers certainly are in a good position after winning the opener. Ashby threw 16 pitches in that game while working 1 1\/3 innings of scoreless relief.<\/p>\n

He will be back on the mound Monday at the start of the game. Ashby said the different role doesn’t really change his approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike all of the outings leading up throughout the years, I guess. It\u2019s kind of just been get outs,\u201d said Ashby, who started in only one of his 43 regular-season appearances. \u201cWhether that\u2019s in the first inning or the fourth, fifth, seventh, whenever it is. I think they\u2019ve made it clear that your job is just to get outs, and then when they ask you to stop getting outs, that\u2019s when you stop. Going into tomorrow, it\u2019ll be kind of the same situation. Just prep the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy said Sunday he didn’t know who would follow Ashby. Right-hander Quinn Priester (13-3, 3.32) ranked second on the Brewers in innings pitched and would seem like a probable candidate.<\/p>\n

Imanaga will be making his second appearance of this post-season after allowing two runs over four innings Wednesday in the Cubs\u2019\u00a03-0 Game 2 loss\u00a0to the San Diego Padres in the NL Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Imanaga is very familiar with the Brewers. He started against them three times during the regular season and went 1-2 with a 3.57 ERA in those games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s a thinking-man\u2019s competitor, and he also pitches with a lot of joy on the mound while competing at a really high level,\u201d Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t sometimes come across as, like, this fierce competitor because he\u2019s really joyful on the mound. So that doesn\u2019t come across as fierce necessarily. But I think he\u2019s a fierce competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago reliever Ben Brown said the Cubs remain upbeat after losing the opening game of the series. He credited veterans Justin Turner, Dansby Swanson, Carlos Santana and Drew Pomeranz \u2014 who have a combined 168 games of post-season experience \u2014 for making sure everyone stayed grounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be silly for us to be beat up losing one game,” Brown said. “I don\u2019t think anyone was wearing it yesterday. I don\u2019t think that the vibes were super low in the clubhouse after a loss. It actually felt like we were just where we needed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio\u2019s status for Game 2 of the NL Division Series against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-191942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}