The Buzz — Monday, October 5

Jackson Chourio

The take Chourio walk-off single puts Brewers up 2-0 NLDS

Chourio is 22 years and 207 days old, and he has 15 RBIs in 14 career postseason games — eight of them game-tying or go-ahead, the most in Brewers history. The crowd is replaying the walk-off single. The 15 in 14 says it was always coming.

Sunday he lined a two-run single off a 101.3 mph fastball from Mason Miller, the ball leaving his bat at 109.5 mph and finding center field with two outs and the bases loaded. The day before, he hit a tying two-run home run in the third inning of Game 1. Two games, two game-changing swings, and the Padres have no answer.

Milwaukee leads the NLDS 2-0, and the series shifts to San Diego on Tuesday. The Padres need three straight, and the Brewers have a 22-year-old who has been the best player on the field both games — the fourth-youngest player ever with a postseason walk-off RBI. The moment is what the crowd will remember. The number is why it keeps happening.

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Mason Miller

The take Miller blew six-out save after walking bases loaded

Miller's own words settle it: "A base hit after you walk the bases loaded does." He walked Yelich, Frelick, and Sánchez in the ninth, and that is where the game left him — not on the 101.3 mph fastball Chourio lined to center.

The velocity held. Miller topped 100 mph on 18 of his 40 pitches, his highest count as a Padre, and the eighth was a clean two-strikeout inning. He was 38-for-41 in saves this year, and the last walk-off against him came on May 17, 2025. What changed was the ask — a premeditated six-out save that breezed through one frame and unraveled in the next. An aberration under a load he does not carry in the regular season, not a closer losing his stuff.

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Michael Harris II

The take Harris three-hit game ties Braves-Dodgers NLDS

Harris went 3-for-5 — single, triple, RBI double — and manufactured two of Atlanta's three runs in a 3-2 win that evened the NLDS at 1-1. His fifth-inning triple was his first in the postseason, and he scored the go-ahead run on Kris Bubic's wild pitch before adding an RBI double in the seventh for a 3-1 lead. The Braves head home with the split, and Harris is the reason they have it.

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Munetaka Murakami

The take Murakami's huge ALDS Game 1 two-run homer still buzzing

The crowd sees the 440-foot blast, and it was real — 112.2 mph off the bat, the hardest-hit ball of the 2026 postseason to that point, off a sinker from Parker Messick. But the number that frames Murakami is .207. He hit 35 home runs with a .207 batting average and .825 OPS in 454 at-bats, and that is the player: a slugger whose on-base and slugging exist because the damage is massive and the misses come with it.

Saturday he went 2-for-4 with the two-run homer that put the White Sox ahead 2-0 in a 3-0 shutout of Cleveland. After a quiet Wild Card series where he and Vargas combined for 1-for-17 against Houston, his first career postseason home run landed in the right spot. Five pitchers held the Guardians to three hits, and Murakami's swing was the margin.

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Shohei Ohtani

The take Ohtani quiet with strikeouts in Dodgers NLDS G2 loss

Two games into the NLDS, Ohtani is 2-for-8 with zero runs and zero RBIs, and Dave Roberts named the problem plainly: "a lot of chase." Ohtani went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts in the 3-2 loss, and Braves opener Ray Kerr retired him twice in 2 2/3 scoreless innings. The series is even at 1-1, and the Dodgers head to Atlanta needing their best bat to show up. Two games is a small sample, but the chase is the tell.

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