Brewers lean on HRs from Chourio, Mitchell to even series with Mets - ESPN

MILWAUKEE — Maybe Brewers phenom Jackson Chourio is simply too young to know the history he was overcoming — and making — Wednesday night.

Twice, Chourio revved up an American Family Field crowd into a dervish with opposite-field homers, one to lead off the Brewers' first inning and the other to tie the score to start the eighth, as Milwaukee overcame a late deficit to beat the New York Mets 5-3 and set up a decisive Game 3 in the National League Wild Card Series on Thursday.

«Yeah, that's pretty special,» Brewers manager Pat Murphy said, summing up his young star's performance. «Yeah, pretty special.»

Chourios' eighth-inning blast off Mets right-hander Phil Maton rocketed off his bat at 105 mph and clanked off the facade above the right-field bullpen, sending a nervous home crowd into a frenzy.

«I think the adrenaline is still getting to me,» Chourio said after the game through an interpreter. «I think I still feel the adrenaline there. It was a very special moment for me, and it's one I'm going to look back on and remember for the rest of my life.»

An even larger celebration kicked off moments later when Garrett Mitchell, who entered the game earlier as a pinch runner only to be thrown out stealing, lined a Maton pitch that scraped the top of the right-field fence for a two-run, go-ahead homer.

«I knew I hit it well and felt like, as I was kind of running down the base, I was kind of like, 'Go, go, go, go,'» Mitchell said. «Right when it hit the top of the fence, that's when I knew.»

The Brewers have suffered postseason disappointments throughout their history. As a franchise that began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 before moving to Milwaukee the next season, the Brewers are only one of five extant franchises without a