{"id":871173,"date":"2026-10-05T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:54:08","slug":"chourio-walk-off-single-lifts-brewers-over-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871173\/","title":{"rendered":"Chourio walk-off single lifts Brewers over Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/urn:newsml:afp.com:20261004:68bbab6d-6011-452f-be72-f68423842076\" rel=\"http:\/\/cv.iptc.org\/newscodes\/ninature\/picture nofollow noopener\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><br \/>\n                 Jackson Chourio smacked a walk-off two-run single to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday and a commanding 2-0 lead in their Major League Baseball playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>For the second straight day the Brewers rallied from 2-0 down to beat the Padres, who are now in survival mode as the best-of-five National League division series shifts to San Diego for game three on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have words for this,&#8221; Venezuela&#8217;s Chourio &#8212; who hit a two-run homer to spark the Brewers&#8217; game-one rally &#8212; told Fox Sports after belting a two-out, bases-loaded fastball from dominant Padres closer Mason Miller up the middle for the winning runs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just looking for a good pitch to hit there and, you know, thankfully he threw me one that I could do something with,&#8221; Chourio said.<\/p>\n<p>With three errors the Brewers looked far from the team that won an MLB best 103 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego seized a 1-0 lead in the first inning and capitalized on Brewers errors to push the advantage to 2-0 in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee had stayed in range with a run in the bottom of the fifth, finally breaking through against Padres starting pitcher Michael King with a double from Christian Yelich, who scored on a base hit by Sal Frelick.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres pushed their lead back to two in the seventh, but the Brewers pulled within 3-2 in the bottom of the inning when an error from Padres second baseman Jake Cronenworth allowed a run to score.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a team that never backs down,&#8221; Chourio said. &#8220;We&#8217;re never going to back down from a challenge, and we like these moments. We&#8217;re going to keep going, and we&#8217;re going to battle for every opportunity that we get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the series will take on either the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers or the Atlanta Braves for a place in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers, trying to become the first team since the New York Yankees in 1998, 1999 and 2000 to win three straight World Series titles, took a 1-0 series lead into game two of their NL division series against the Braves later Sunday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Chourio smacked a walk-off two-run single to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 victory over the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-871173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}