Chourio, Four Milwaukee Homers Sink Pittsburgh 4-2
Jackson Chourio went 3-for-4 with a home run and 2 RBI as Milwaukee outlasted Pittsburgh 4-2 on August 4. The game featured five home runs across five innings — a slugfest that Logan Henderson ultimately outlasted.
Pittsburgh struck first and struck hard. Jacob Gonzalez launched a 401-foot shot to right center in the third inning to put the Pirates up 1-0, and that swing momentarily flipped the script — Milwaukee's win probability dropped from 71% to 57%, a 14-point swing that made this feel like a real contest. It didn't stay that way for long. Chourio answered in the same inning with a 399-foot homer of his own to right center, knotting it at one and signaling that Milwaukee wasn't going to let Pittsburgh breathe.
The fourth inning is where this game turned decisively. Andrew Vaughn crushed a 417-foot shot to center to put the Brewers ahead 2-1, and then Chourio did damage again — this time with a single to center that scored Pratt and pushed Hamilton to second, making it 3-1. Pittsburgh's starter Jared Jones was done by then, having allowed 8 hits and 3 earned runs across just 4 innings. That's a rough night for a guy who needed length. Wilber Dotel came on in relief and gave the Pirates two innings, but the damage was already done. Pittsburgh clawed one back in the fifth when Endy Rodriguez homered to right — 379 feet — to make it 3-2, and for a moment it looked like the Pirates might have something. Luis Lara ended that conversation immediately. His single to left scored Contreras and pushed Vaughn to second, restoring Milwaukee's two-run cushion at 4-2, and that's where it stayed.
The story of the night was Logan Henderson. He went 6 innings, allowed just 4 hits and 2 earned runs, walked one, and struck out 8. That's a quality start with teeth — the kind of outing that makes a bullpen's job easy. Abner Uribe closed it out with a clean inning, striking out all three batters he faced. On the Pittsburgh side, the offense generated plenty of hard contact — three home runs in a 2-run loss will do that — but the pitching couldn't hold. Gonzalez and Rodriguez each went deep, yet the Pirates couldn't string together anything beyond the long ball. Milwaukee's ability to manufacture a run the old-fashioned way in the fourth, with Chourio's RBI single, appears to have been the difference between a close loss and a comfortable Brewers win.