milwaukee– mark winds Hit a tiebreaking, two-run single during a five-run explosion in the fifth inning that was relentless New York Mets continued their exciting week by defeating milwaukee brewers 8-4 in the NL Wild Card Series opener on Tuesday.
The Mets did not make the playoffs until they rallied late from a three-run deficit to win the opening game of a makeup doubleheader in Atlanta on Monday, a day after the regular season ended.
Now they go to Philadelphia for the NL Division Series.
Since Major League Baseball moved to the current postseason format in 2022, featuring four best-of-three wild card series, the Game 1 winner has advanced in each of the eight series. Of those eight series, only one resulted in a winner in the third game.
Milwaukee has lost 10 of its last 11 playoff games, a streak that started with a home loss in Game 7 los angeles dodgers In the 2018 NL Championship Series.
jesse winker and pincher J.D. martinez Each scored two runs for the Mets. Winker, who batted .199 with a .567 OPS for the Brewers last year before bouncing back this season, drew jeers every time he batted and exchanged words with the Milwaukee shortstop. Appeared. Willie Adams After hitting a two-run triple in the second.
Bryce Turang Went for 3-4, jackson chourio was 2-for-4 and William Contreras Had two RBIs for the Brewers. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Chourio, at 20 years and 204 days old, is the youngest player to have multiple hits in his postseason debut.
The Mets were playing in Milwaukee just 22 hours after Monday’s doubleheader in Atlanta. He clinched his spot in the postseason by scoring all of his runs in the final two innings of an 8–7 victory over the Braves.
He showed similar determination on Tuesday also.
After the Brewers took an early lead with two runs in the first inning, the Mets responded by scoring three runs in the second inning. Once the Brewers went ahead with two runs in the fourth, the Mets again responded immediately, this time with five runs in the fifth.
The Brewers had taken a 4–3 lead in the fifth inning when manager Pat Murphy retired. freddy peraltaWho overcame a shaky start to retire the last nine batters, and turned in a relief corps that ranked second in the majors in bullpen ERA this season.
It didn’t go well.
starling marte welcomed joel pemps Hitting a drive that Chourio caught over the left field wall while making a leap, preventing at least one extra-base hit. Tyrone Taylor Then doubled to left on a flyball Chauriou misjudged, causing it to go past his glove.
With two on and two out, jose iglesias Hit a hard grounder to that first baseman rice hoskins Stuck. But after Iglesias went headfirst and beat out Piemps for an infield single, Taylor ran home from second to tie the game.
Aaron Ashby Then took over for Payamps. He did not retire any of the five batsmen he faced.
after Brandon Nimmo After reaching on an infield single, Vientos hit a two-run single to right field. Ashby threw a wild pitch and was intentionally walked pete alonso Martínez, batting for Winker, gave up a two-run single to right to load the first bases.
After this the brewers went quietly. Chaurio hit an RBI single in the fourth, but Mets pitchers retired the next 17 batters to end the game.
mets starter louis severino Recovered well from bad start. He gave up eight hits and four runs – three earned – in six innings. Jose Batto bowled two excellent innings and raine stanek Retired from the team in ninth order.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.