MILWAUKEE — Jackson Chourio went 3 for 3 and drove in three runs within the first two innings earlier than departing with a hamstring damage because the Milwaukee Brewers trounced the Chicago Cubs 9-3 of their NL Division Collection opener Saturday.
Chourio grew to become the primary participant to have three hits within the first two innings of a playoff recreation. However his availability for Monday’s Sport 2 within the best-of-five collection is unclear.
Chourio, who missed a month of the common season with a strained proper hamstring, left with tightness in that hamstring after beating out a bases-loaded infield single.
Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta labored 5 2/3 innings, and the one runs he allowed got here on homers from Michael Busch and Ian Happ. Nico Hoerner added a solo shot off Jared Koenig within the eighth inning.
Peralta’s 9 strikeouts tied Don Sutton, Yovani Gallardo and Brandon Woodruff for the Brewers’ single-game playoff file.
After Busch opened the sport with a 389-foot drive over the wall in right-center, Chourio, Brice Turang and William Contreras began the underside half of the primary with consecutive doubles.
Contreras scored from second when Hoerner mishandled a sluggish grounder from Sal Frelick. Blake Perkins capped an 11-pitch at bat with a two-out RBI single to middle.
Michael Soroka walked Joey Ortiz to load the bases and allowed a two-run single to Chourio.
Boyd had solely three days of relaxation after throwing 58 pitches within the Cubs’ 3-1 Wild Card Collection Sport 1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday.
Milwaukee added three extra runs within the second. Caleb Durbin delivered a two-run single earlier than Chourio’s infield hit made it 9-1.
Chicago’s Aaron Civale, who began the season with Milwaukee, and Ben Brown mixed for 6-1/3 innings of shutout reduction.
BLUE JAYS 10, YANKEES 1
TORONTO (AP) — Alejandro Kirk hit two solo house runs, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. additionally related and Toronto gained a postseason recreation for the primary time since 2016 by thumping New York in Sport 1 of their AL Division Collection on Saturday.
Nathan Lukes had two hits, three RBIs and a diving catch, and Andrés Giménez added two hits and drove in a pair because the AL East champion Blue Jays used 14 hits to snap a seven-game playoff dropping streak.
Toronto’s earlier postseason win got here in Sport 4 of the 2016 American League Championship Collection towards Cleveland. The Blue Jays misplaced that collection in 5 video games.
Toronto was swept out of the wild-card spherical at Tampa Bay in 2020, at house towards Seattle in 2022 and at Minnesota in 2023.
Kevin Gausman (1-0) allowed one run and 4 hits in 5 2/3 innings for the win. He walked two and struck out three.
Guerrero went 3 for 4 with two RBIs. He opened the scoring with a two-out drive within the first inning, the primary postseason homer of his profession, and added a sacrifice fly in Toronto’s four-run seventh.
Guerrero entered with three hits and one RBI in six earlier playoff video games.
Kirk hit a first-pitch homer within the second, his first within the postseason, then added a second shot off Paul Blackburn to start a four-run eighth.
Toronto has gained seven of eight house conferences with New York this season. The Blue Jays went an AL-best 54-27 at house within the common season.
DODGERS 5, PHILLIES 3
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Teoscar Hernández rallied the Dodgers with a three-run homer within the seventh inning that bailed out Shohei Ohtani, each on the mound and on the plate, and led Los Angeles to a win over Philadelphia in Sport 1 of their NL Division Collection.
Ohtani struck out 4 straight occasions on the plate, the ultimate time within the seventh with no outs and two runners on towards Matt Strahm.
Following a Mookie Betts popout, Hernández silenced a roaring Phillies crowd with an opposite-field drive to proper off Strahm for a 5-3 lead. The veteran slugger gestured in wild celebration in his trot across the bases.
A 3-time MVP, Ohtani recovered from a three-run second in his first profession playoff pitching begin to shut down the Phillies and end with 9 strikeouts over six innings.
Alex Vesia retired pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa with the bases loaded within the eighth to protect the lead. Roki Sasaki labored the ninth for his first profession save.
DETROIT 3, SEATTLE 2, 11 INNINGS
SEATTLE (AP) — Zach McKinstry singled house the tiebreaking run with two outs within the eleventh inning and Detroit outlasted Seattle for a victory in Sport 1 of their AL Division Collection.
Kerry Carpenter hit a two-run homer within the fifth for the resurgent Tigers, who squandered an enormous lead within the AL Central and almost collapsed totally down the stretch earlier than squeezing into the playoffs.
After profitable their Wild Card Collection at division champion Cleveland in a deciding Sport 3, they will take a commanding 2-0 lead on this best-of-five matchup towards AL West champion Seattle with dominant ace Tarik Skubal on the mound Sunday.
Within the first extra-inning recreation of this postseason, McKinstry pounced on the primary pitch he noticed from reliever Carlos Vargas, a 99.6 mph sinker, and grounded it up the center to attain Spencer Torkelson from second base.
Torkelson, who walked main off the eleventh, superior to second on a wild pitch by Vargas earlier within the inning.
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