Courtesy of a 4-3 victory in Game 2 on Sunday afternoon, the Brewers will head to San Diego holding a 2-0 lead over the Padres in the National League Division Series.
But if you took a bird's-eye view of Game 2 -- maybe glanced at the final score to see how things had played out -- you did not get the full experience. Somehow, after Game 1's extended cable-related drama, Game 2 was even stranger. Here are 11 quirky facts and stats from Sunday's action.
Jackson Chourio
• On one hand, Game 2 hero Jackson Chourio entered the game 0-for-3 against Mason Miller in his career. On the other hand, this kind of performance is something Brewers fans almost know to expect from him. With his walk-off single, Chourio brought his postseason game-tying/go-ahead RBI total up to eight, which surpassed Ryan Braun (seven) for the most in franchise history. Chourio, we should point out, is 22 years old.
• Chourio is also already breathing down Braun's neck for another club record -- he has 15 postseason RBIs in 14 games, one behind a man who played in 27 playoff games for the Brewers in his career.
• Chourio's 15 postseason RBIs are also the second most any player has collected before his 23rd birthday -- in that department, he trails only Andruw Jones, who had 17. Chourio has the rest of October to catch him; he won’t turn 23 until March 11.
• Last but certainly not least, at 22 years and 207 days old as of Game 2, Chourio is also the fourth-youngest player with a walk-off RBI in postseason play.
- Edgar Renteria, 22 yrs, 54 days (1997 NLDS G1)
- Renteria, 22 yrs, 80 days (1997 WS G7)
- Andruw Jones, 22 years, 179 days (1999 NLCS G6)
- Chourio, 22 years, 207 days (2026 NLDS G2)
Mason Miller
• It should come as no major surprise that the Brewers came back in this game -- they had the best record after conceding first in 2026 (35-36) and ranked fifth in baseball with 42 comeback wins. The Padres, on the other hand, had just 26 blown-lead losses in the regular season -- the fewest in the NL (third fewest in MLB).
• Not even Mason Miller is perfect, of course, but he's been pretty darn close. Miller went 38-for-41 (92.7%) in save opportunities in the regular season and took just two losses, both when entering tie games at home, when a save situation was no longer possible. Through 67 previous appearances, Miller had yet to be saddled with the dreaded blown save/loss combo -- in other words, this was the first time all year Miller had entered a game with a lead and left it losing (or already having lost, as was the case Sunday).
• This remarkable resistance to walk-offs actually goes beyond the 2026 season. Prior to Sunday, the last time any team had walked off on Miller was on May 17, 2025 -- before he arrived in San Diego.
The Brewers' defense (or lack thereof)
• Normally about as reliable as they come, the Brewers' infield nearly bore the responsibility for an ugly loss. Milwaukee committed three errors Sunday, tying its season high, reached twice in the regular season. Interestingly, one of those games also came against the Padres, on Aug. 11. (The other, which fell on July 29, benefitted the Giants.)
• While we're on the subject, the Brewers committed two of their three errors in the top of the fifth -- just their third multi-error inning of 2026. Just two teams -- the Cubs and the Dodgers, with one each -- had fewer multi-error innings in the regular season. (The Tigers tied at third, also with two.)
• Even stranger, Brice Turang, of all people, was responsible for one of those fifth-inning errors. For reference, Turang not only ranked second among all players with 23 defensive runs saved in 2026, he also committed just five errors over 1,311 2/3 innings spent at second base in the regular season.
Honorable mention
• In the chaos, we'd hate to overlook the oddity that kicked off the game. Padres starter Michael King, rendered a footnote in this game, got through 4 2/3 hitless innings Sunday after going seven in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series against the Cubs. In doing so, King became just the fourth pitcher to have multiple no-hit bids of at least four innings in the same postseason, joining Blake Snell (2020 ALWC Game 1 and World Series Game 2), Justin Verlander (2013 ALDS Game 5 and ALCS Game 3) and Mordecai Brown (1906 World Series Games 1 and 4). No pitcher has had multiple five-plus-inning bids in the same postseason, a fact that will live to see another day.