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Fourteen records and statistics of interest from the Brewers' Game 2 win over the Cubs

October 7, 2025
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The Milwaukee Brewers made some postseason history in Game 1 of the National League Division Series when they surged out of the gate for a 9-3 win over the Chicago Cubs. There was more of the same in Game 2 after the Brewers took a 2-0 series lead with a 7-3 victory at American Family Field on Oct. 6.

Here are the highlights:

Jackson Chourio is tied for third in Brewers postseason RBIs and homers

Still just 21 years old, Chourio has nine postseason RBIs to his credit, including six in this series alone. That’s tied with Paul Molitor for third in franchise history, behind only Ryan Braun (16) and Cecil Cooper (13). The latter threw out one of the ceremonial first pitches before Game 2.

He’s also third in home runs with three, behind Prince Fielder and Orlando Arcia, who each have four.

Chourio has reached base twice in all five postseason appearances

Chourio’s two hits in Game 2 mean that he’s reached base multiple times in all five postseason games he’s played. He’s batting 10 for 18 overall in his postseason career with three homers, a double, and a 1.690 OPS.

The Brewers bullpen delivered in an historic way

According to OptaStates, the Brewers are the first team in MLB history to have a bullpen throw seven or more shutout innings with 10 strikeouts or more and no more than one hit in a postseason game.

This is, of course, slgihtly misleading since Aaron Ashby is traditionally a part of the Brewers bullpen, and he yielded three hits in his 1 ⅓ innings of work. But he is officially a starter in this game, and outside of a fifth-inning single by Nico Hoerner against Jacob Misiorowski, the Brewers did not allow another hit the rest of the way. Milwaukee retired the final 15 Cubs batters of the game.

The first three-run homer in Brewers postseason history … and the second

Somehow in 48 postseason home runs in franchise history, none had come with multiple runners on base. Andrew Vaughn’s three-run homer in the first inning was the first three-run homer or grand slam in Brewers posteason history, and then Jackson Chourio added another three-run homer in the fourth.

For Vaughn, it was his first home run since Aug. 15. That was also a three-run homer and helped the Brewers claw back from a big early deficit in a win over the Reds.

Christian Yelich is quietly on a postseason hitting streak

Christian Yelich went 3-for-4 in Game 2 and has a hit in seven consecutive postseason appearances, dating to Game 2 of the National League Division Series against Atlanta in 2021. It was his fourth multi-hit postseason game.

Jacob Misiorwoski threw more 100 mph pitches than anyone before in a postseason game

Jacob Misiorowski threw 31 pitches at 100 mph or more in the game. That’s the most by a pitcher in a postseason game since pitch tracking began in 2008.

Jacob Misiorwoski threw more 102 mph pitches than anyone before in a postseason game

He threw 12 pitches of at least 102 mph, the most in a postseason game since pitch tracking began. It ties Mason Miller for the second-most in a postseason career and sits behind only Aroldis Chapman, who has thrown 61.

Jacob Misiorowski threw more 103 mph pitches than anyone before in a postseason game

Misiorowski also threw seven pitches of at least 103 mph. That’s also the most in a postseason game since data was available and the second-most in a postseason career, behind Aroldis Chapman’s 15.

Jacob Misiorowski also hit 104 mph

During Misiorowski’s first postseason batter faced, he threw 104.3 and 104.2 mph to Cubs slugger Kyle Tucker. The 104.3 pitch became the second-fasetest pitch ever tracked in the postseason, behind only San Diego’s Mason Miller (who achieved the feat the previous week against the Cubs in the wild-card round with a 104.5 pitch).

From JJ Cooper of Baseball America: from 2008-2025, there were just two 104+ mph pitches among the 32,844 pitches thrown in the playoffs. Jacob Misiorowski did it twice to the first batter he faced.

Jacob Misiorowski made history for something other than velocity, too

At 23 years, 186 days, Misiorowski became the youngest Brewers pitcher to record a postseason win. Corbin Burnes was 23 years, 350 days when he got a win during Game 3 of the NLDS against Colorado in 2018.

Jackson Chourio sent some eye-popping velocity the other way, too

Back to Chourio. According to baseball history and statistics expert Sarah Langs, Daniel Palencia’s 101.4 mile-per-hour pitch that Chourio launched for a three-run homer was the fastest pitch sent out of the ballpark in a postseason game. It’s the second-fastest pitch a Brewers player has hit for a home run. Again, this is all since pitch-tracking began in 2008.

Three-run homer frenzy makes it a first-of-its-kind postseason game

Also according to Langs, the game marked the first time in playoff history that both teams hit a three-run homer (or grand slam) in the first inning.

The Brewers also tied a franchise record with three homers in a postseason game, something it has done four times before.

Reliever Abner Uribe pitches during the ninth inning of the Brewers' NLDS Game 2 victory over the Cubs on Oct. 6 at at American Family Field.

First-inning scoring makes this series unprecedented

The 13 first-inning runs between the two teams are two more than the first innings of the first two games in any other postseason series. In 2000, St. Louis and Atlanta combined for 11 runs in the opening innings of the NLDS, as did the Cubs and Giants in the 1989 NLCS.

How often does a team go up 2-0 win the best-of-five series?

One more time from Sarah Langs:

In postseason history, teams taking a 2-0 lead in a best-of-5 series have won that series 80 of 90 times (88.9%).

The last time a team overcame a 2-0 dericit to prevail: the New York Yankees against Cleveland in 2017. Seven more teams have evened the series at 2-2 after falling behind, 2-0, but then lost in Game 5. That includes the Brewers against the Yankees in the 1981 divsion series (in the strike-shortened year) and the Arizona Diamondbacks against Milwaukee in 2011.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Records and stats of interest from Brewers’ Game 2 win over Cubs

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