Mets have a Jackson Chourio problem: What we learned in MLB wild-card Game 2s

The Astros and Orioles were two of the most talented teams in baseball this year. Two games into the postseason, they've both been swept at home. In the National League, the Padres proved why they're among the scariest teams in baseball in sweeping the Braves, while the Brewers rallied to save their season and force a winner-take-all Game 3 with the Mets. 

It was another unpredictable day of wild-card play Wednesday.

FOX Sports MLB writers Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar offered their top takeaways from all the action.

A star is born

The scene was set up nicely for the Mets, six outs away from sweeping the Brewers and advancing to the NLDS against the Phillies. But Milwaukee's high-adrenaline, red-hot rookie is seeing the ball so well right now that it's nearly impossible to pitch to him. If you make a mistake, he won't miss. Chourio, unforgiving, crushed his second opposite-field home run of the night, his two-run blast both tying the game and communicating to the Mets and whoever dares to face him that he will make it as painful as possible.

At 20 years old, Chourio operates like he's been here before and can do almost anything — except sip champagne in the team's October celebrations. After becoming the youngest major-leaguer in history to record a 20-20 season, he brought all the talent in the world to his first career postseason and has ambushed the Mets in the wild-card series, forcing a Game 3 when the Brewers' backs were against the wall. It seems like his brazen confidence helps him stay locked in at the plate, so that he's able to fight off fastballs and achieve the patience of a hitter who's played in the playoffs multiple times. From his leaping catches in left, to his outcry of emotion as he rounds the