Brewers win first two postseason match-ups against Cubs in NLDS series

On Saturday, October 4, 2025, Jackson Chourio went 3 for 3 and drove in three runs in the first two innings before departing with a hamstring injury as the Milwaukee Brewers trounced the Chicago Cubs 9-3 in their NL Division Series opener. That’s just about the only thing that went wrong for the Brewers, who grabbed a 9-1 lead in the first two innings in a match-up of NL Central rivals.

Chourio became the first player to have three hits in the first two innings of a playoff game. Milwaukee added three more runs in the second. Caleb Durbin delivered a two-run single before Chourio’s infield hit made it 9-1.

On Monday, October 6, 2025, the Brewers, short of starters by season’s end but long on smarts and creativity in the area of run prevention, spent weeks putting together a pitching plan for Game 2 of the National League Division Series. Four batters into that plan, they found themselves down three runs, but won anyway, 7-3 over the Cubs on a power-packed Monday night at American Family Field.

The Brew Crew will head to Wrigley Field in Chicago on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 for game three of the series.