Chourio Goes 4-5 With Two Bombs, Brewers Rout Mets 8-2

Jackson Chourio was a one-man demolition crew on Thursday night, going 4-for-5 with 2 home runs, 4 RBI, and 4 runs scored as Milwaukee dismantled New York 8-2. The story of the night was how completely and how early the Brewers seized control — and how little the Mets could do to wrestle it back.

Milwaukee wasted no time. In the first inning, Vaughn singled to right to score Chourio, and Lara came home on a Sánchez fielder's choice to put the Brewers up 2-0 before New York had even recorded three outs. That Vaughn single was the decisive moment — the win probability swung from 30% to 20% in favor of the Mets the instant it dropped in, a shift that looks modest on paper but set the tone for everything that followed. Then Chourio made it academic in the second, launching a 389-foot shot to right center that scored Hamilton and pushed the lead to 4-0. At that point, the game was functionally over.

Sean Manaea had no answers. He lasted just 5.2 innings, surrendering 8 hits and 6 earned runs — a performance that appears to have unraveled inning by inning rather than in one catastrophic moment. The Mets did claw back briefly in the fifth: Young doubled to center to score Robert Jr., and Morel singled to left to score Young, trimming the deficit to 5-2 after Milwaukee had extended to five on a Contreras groundout. Milwaukee even challenged the call on the Morel single, but it was upheld. That two-run flurry looks, in hindsight, like the last gasp of a team that never had a realistic path back into this game. Pratt's sacrifice fly in the sixth pushed the lead to 6-2, and Chourio put the final nail in with a 380-foot homer to left center in the eighth that scored Pratt and made it 8-2.

On the mound, Jacob Misiorowski was efficient and composed — 6.0 innings, just 2 hits, 2 earned runs, 2 walks, and 6 strikeouts. That's a line that wins ballgames on most nights, and Thursday was no exception. DL Hall followed with a clean inning, striking out two without allowing a hit. The Brewers' pitching staff gave the offense every opportunity to pile on, and Chourio — who scored or drove in runs in seemingly every meaningful moment — made sure they did. Four runs scored, four driven in, two balls launched over the fence: it's hard to construct a more complete individual offensive performance than what Chourio put together tonight.