The Major League Baseball postseason always delivers something strange or unexpected.
The Milwaukee Brewers came into Game 2 of the National League Division Series on Oct. 6 having hit 48 postseason home runs in franchise history, and none of them had yielded more than two runs. Then came Monday night.
Andrew Vaughn’s first-inning blast capped a two-out rally and tied the Chicago Cubs at 3-3, marking the first three-run blast (or grand slam) in franchise lore.
In the fourth, it happened again. Jackson Chourio, highly questionable to play in the game after tweaking a hamstring in Game 1, belted an 0-2 pitch from Daniel Palencia over the wall in center field for another three-run homer, giving the Brewers a 7-3 lead.
The 101.4-mph pitch from Palencia was the second-fastest pitch in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) a Brewers player has hit for a home run. Chourio now has hits in all five of his career postseason games.
To that point in the game, all seven Brewers runs had come on two-out homers.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Brewers had never hit a three-run homer in their postseason history. And then they hit two
Reporting by JR Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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