Four hits, and one of them changed everything
Jackson Chourio came to the plate in the ninth with two outs and Milwaukee down 3-2. He was already 3-for-4 on the night. Then he turned on a Jacob Webb pitch and put two runs on the board, and a game the Brewers looked ready to hand over was suddenly level at 3-3.
That swing bought them extra innings. It took one more to finish the job.
The 10th did it. Bases loaded, rookie Luis Lara up against Caleb Thielbar, and a base hit that ended the night 4-3. Thielbar wears the loss and falls to 3-3.
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Suzuki ran into the one out Chicago could not afford
The Cubs had first crack at the extra frame. Seiya Suzuki tagged from second on a ball Garrett Mitchell hauled in, tried for third, and was cut down. Chicago’s best look at the go-ahead run died right there on the bag.
Jacob Misiorowski had given Milwaukee everything it needed before any of that: six and a third innings, four hits, a single run. DL Hall handled the rest with one and two-thirds of scoreless relief and moved to 3-0.
Nine games, and 20-odd left to play
The Brewers now sit nine games clear of the Cubs in the National League Central. Chicago holds second. With under a month of regular season on the calendar, a nine-game hole is the kind of arithmetic that stops being a race.
Milwaukee has been chipping away at this margin all summer. One swing from a 22-year-old just made it that much harder to argue with.
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