Cubs vs. Brewers NLDS Game 1 Highlights (10/4/25) | MLB Highlights

Cubs vs. Brewers NLDS Game 1 Highlights (10/4/25) | MLB Highlights

The first ever playoff meeting between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs in game one of this best of five series. This has all the ingredients of a great playoff series. You’ve got the rivalry. You’ve got the relationship between the two managers, the proximity between the two teams. This should be fun. And Freddy Peralta, it is win day when he pitches at American Family Field. Nine and one with a 1.77 this season. Matthew Boyd gets the ball in just three days rest. Short rest for the bullpen too. Just 36 hours after the wildcard round. The Cubs and Brewers get ready to collide. Game one of the National League Division Series. Freddy Peralta toes the rubber for the Brewers. One of the hardest guys to square up in all of baseball. Batting average since 2021. Just 199 against fast ball. Freddy Peralta. That’s not all he throws. He’s got a great high fast ball. Good change up he’ll use against lefties and he spins it when he wants to face the righties. What a run it’s been for Michael Bush over the last couple of weeks dating back to the end of the regular season. 12 for his last 27. And Bush with a fly ball deep to right field. Way back there. That ball is gone. Michael Bush continues his late season assault. A leadoff homer for the Cubs in game one. Yeah. 34 home runs during the regular season. He had one on Thursday, his post first postseason home run. And he got the count in his favor. 2-1. Saw another four seam fast and was able to get on top of it. A bomb to right field to start this series. What a way to raise the curtain on the series. Here’s Nicoer. Ground ball hit to third. Couple of bounces for Durban. He throws it across and her is retired. One away in the top half of inning number one. One- one from Peralta. Chopped first base side. Andrew Vaughn is there to make the flip to bring up Sea Suzuki. Some clutch hits in the wildard round. And it’s a called third strike with a fast ball on the outside corner. Peralta strikes out Suzuki to retire the Cubs in the first. Matthew Boyd pitching on three days rest, making his fifth career playoff starts. You know what’s going to be interesting in this matchup is Boyd is a guy that tries to get the hitters to go off the plate. And this is a team that does not chase. Cheerio rounds one fair off the left field line and he’ll dig for extra bases. A sliding double for Jackson Cheerio to leave things off in the bottom of the first. Good start to the Brewers offense. Cheerio who had 35 doubles in the regular season doubles in his first half out of the playoffs. Well, now the Brewers offense goes to work with Bryce Tang and Terraang smacks one to right. That’s down for a base hit and it’s off the wall. Turio will score and the Brewers immediately answer. Tie game. Hanging slider on the inside corner and Terra rifled it into the right field corner. The Brewers strike back and now an opportunity for a big inning against Boyd with Contraras coming to the plate. William Contreres tags one towards the gap that is down for a base hit past the diving Eden Hap. Terra will score. Three straight doubles for the Brewers to begin and they have the lead. Three straight pitches. Three straight doubles. This is a team coming in. Your game plan might be they don’t swing a lot. They take a lot of pitches. They don’t chase. They have come out just opposite of that. So aggressive for the Brewers. Matthew Boyd has yet to record an out. Here’s Christian Yelich. Yelich bounding ball. Contrarus has to go back to second and Swanson makes the put up and it’s a five pitch walk to Vaughn. S Free a left-handed batter steps in. Broken bat for Freelick on a ball to second. Horner boots it. Everybody’s safe. Here comes Contraras and he scores. The Broners take advantage of Nicoer’s error and it’s three to one. Some say her the favorite to win the Gold Glove this year at second base. That one squibbed on the jam shot by South Freick. It went under his glove. And this is where the Brewers can kill you. You make a mistake against this offense and more often than not they will make you pay. First and second, two away. And now it’s Blake Perkins again. The runners go and Perkins wins the battle. Fawn around third. He will score. 4-1 Milwaukee. Blake Perkins delivers on the 11th pitch of the atbat. And here comes Craig Councel. After 2/3 of an inning, he will pull Matthew Boyd. Right-hander Mike Sroa will inherit a situation of two outs. That’s off the corner. It’s ball four and the bases are loaded and Shurio will bat for the second time. But Shuria laces this one into left field and the hit parade continues. Two more come home. 6-1 Milwaukee. A six spot in the bottom of the first for the Brew Crew. Time and time again, the Brewers took advantage of mistakes and the floodgates have opened up. Opportunity for a big zero for Freddy Peralta. Get a shut down inning right here and you’re in good shape. That’s one for Freddy Peralta in the second inning. Carson Kelly will be the hitter. Two-2 swing and a miss. He struck him out. See the change up here on the rightander. Fast ball in coupled with the change up down. Good pitching. Pete Crow Armstrong the hitter. left-handed batter and he grounds one into right field for a two-out single. Peralta had retired five straight after the leadoff homer from Michael Bush. Vaughn holds Cor Armstrong. One two swing and a miss. He struck him out with a change up and Swanson is the final out of the second inning. A couple of Ks and a shut down second for Freddy Peralta. The bases are loaded for the Brewers for the second straight inning. Three straight singles by Concur Yelich and now Vaughn. Eight hits for the Brewers offense for the first 14 men that have come to the plate. I’ll bring up Caleb Durban who struck out his first time. Off the hands, little flare. Unable to get there. Two more will score. A two-run single for Caleb Darban. And the Brewers have hung a snowman on the Cubs. It’s 8 to one. This team has had so many monikers over the course of this 2025 campaign, but the one that strikes the most is the Woodpeckers. They just keep pecking away bleeders here. Line drives there. Home runs every now and again. Scott Council scratching his head. And that’s ball four. They’re loaded again for Jackson Cheurio. Craig Councel onto his third pitcher of the game. Bases loaded. Two outs in the second inning. Jackson Churio will come to the plate again against Aaron Savali. Two-2 from Savali. And Churio grounds one to third. Diving stopped by Shaw. His thrown not in time. Another run comes home. Churio beat it out. And now here comes Brad Epstein, the Brewers trainer, to go check on Jackson Churio. Remember, he dealt with the hamstring issue in the month of August. Played in just one game in the month. And now every collective breath from Brewers fans in the ballpark is being held for Jackson Cheurio. Again, it’s nine to one right now. He was beating cleats up that first baseline and he was checking to see whether or not he was going to be out or safe. Turned back and you could tell that something didn’t land right and he’s going to come out of this game. Isaac Collins puts on a helmet. He will run for Jackson Cheurio. You have to air on the side of caution. And all that excitement is now slightly nervous energy. And that’s something you wouldn’t expect from Peralta. His team has given him an eight-run lead and he walks the number nine hitter to leave lead off the inning. So runner at first and Bush at the plate. Nobody out here in the top of the third. And Bush drives one to center field. Perkins underneath it for the first out of the inning. Nico her is the batter. Two two pitch. Swinging a miss. He struck him out with a fast ball at 97. always has that force seamer that rides and threw this right by her who’s a guy very rarely strikes out makes a lot of contact and he walked him. So two walks in the inning now issued by Freddy and first and second for the Cubs and Seya Suzuki coming to the plate and this is right now the most dangerous hitter in the Cubs lineup and he got it looking. Oh, what a beautiful curve ball snapped off by Freddy Peralta. Just froze Seya Suzuki on the inner part of the plate. Freddy Peralta has been cruising into the fifth now as he faces Danby Swanson 22 swinging in a miss. He struck him out. German breaking ball. Seventh strike out for Freddy Peralta who is dealing this afternoon. Nothing new for Peralta, especially at American Family Field in Milwaukee. Upight. And for the second straight time, Shaw will take a walk. The ninth place hitter in both lineups has walked twice. Right. We’ll figure It’s a 3-2 pitch. Swing and a miss and a curve ball. He’s struck him out. Eighth strike out for Freddy Peralta. Corner’s 0 for two. He’s grounded out and struck out. The pitch struck him out swinging for a fast ball by him at 96 and he strikes out three in the inning. Nine Ks in the game for Freddy Peralta through five sparkling innings in game one. Since the Michael Bush homer to lead off the game, the Cubs with just one hit. Peralta has issued three walks. And this ball is driven to center field. Perkins going back. He looks up. It is gone. A home run. Ian Hap to the deepest part of the park. And Chicago has their second run. Both by way of the homer. The little victories you’re looking for here if you’re the Cubs. I mentioned that had a hard time seeing the ball out of the hand of Peralta. He was two for 35 prior to that long ball. catches the fast ball out front and that ball there’s a cement wall behind center field and it came banging back into play. Second career postseason homer for Ian Hap. So Carson Kelly will bat here now. This is a hard hit ball up the middle and backto-back hits for Chicago. Carson Kelly with a two out single. That’ll be it for Freddy Peralta. But what a start it was. Fans rise to their feet in Milwaukee. The Brewers ace getting them into the sixth and he likes it to a rousing ovation. Five and two/3 strong for Peralta. Couple of solo homers. The Brewers have a 92 lead as Aaron Ashby is coming in. Yeah, Aaron Ashby there leftander. He’s had quite a year in 43 games. You can see by that earn run average. There’s Cro Armstrong hits a popup shallow left. Collins comes in, makes the catch. Ashby retires. Pro Armstrong and we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. Brewers nine, Cubs two. Aaron Savali has actually done well to stabilize things for the Cubs since coming in in the second. He’s allowed three base hits. Yell with a high fly ball deep center field. Pete Crow Armstrong tracks it down. Allowed first outs here in the sixth. Savali’s pitch. Fly ball to center. Crow Armstrong is calling for it in front of the warning track. Two away and here’s S Freeland. Fly ball into left, not deep coming in his hat. Settles under it. Makes the catch and the Brewers go in order for just the second time in the game. And there’s one away for Blake Perkins. Perkins last year made a couple of starts in that wild card series against the Mets and swung the bat well. Went three for six. Perkins smacks one into the right field court. It’s off the wall on one hop and it’s a stand up double for Perkins. Pat Murphy put Perkins into the lineup late. Why? Because Freddy Peralta gives up a lot of fly balls. He wanted his best defensive outfield and he produces two hits now from the eighth slot. Brewers with a 9-2 lead looking to tack on a few more here. And the pitch swing and miss strike three and that’s out number two. Good sharp breaking ball by Ben Brown. And it’ll Isaac Collins with Perkins at second and two outs. Here’s a liner into right field coming in and making the catch as Sega Suzuki. No runs for the Brewers. We go to the eighth inning. Nine to two Brewers with the lead. Kanan Gazan left-hander who had a terrific regular season for Milwaukee. There’s a drive to left field from her way back there and gone. The third solo homer for the Cubs this afternoon. This one belongs to Nico her and the deficit is down to six. Cubs with their third homer of the day. They need to get some guys on base when they go deep. That’s their third solo. Nico with a long home run straightaway left. And now it’s a 9 to3 ball game, but it’s getting late. We’re in the eighth inning. Nick Mir is on for Pat Murphy and the Brewers try and close this thing out. And he’s got Carson Kelly, Pete Crow Armstrong, and Danby Swanson in his sights. It’s the one-two swing and a miss. He struck him out with a high fast ball. One gone in the ninth inning. The 11th strike out for Brewers pitching today against the Cubs. One gone for Pete Crow Armstrong. Strike three called right down the middle of the heater and Cro Armstrong is gone. Back-to-back KS for Mirs. Dansby Swanson. The last chance to extend the game for the Cubs. There’s a line drive to left and a base hit for Swanson. Around first and sprint into second with a two out double to extend this game. Breaking ball from Mir. Swanson stays on it. pulls it down into the corner for a double and Moises Bisteros will pinch hit for Chicago. Bysteros came up late in the season. Got tremendous power to left center and left field. Swanson takes off for third as the first pitch is down and away. Defensive indifference for Swanson to get to third base. Steros rolls over on one. It stays fair and that’ll do it. the best team in baseball during the regular season. The Brewers with a barrage in game one, one of the largest postseason wins in franchise history. And the Brewers lead this series one game to none. 93 the final score. Freddy Peralta picks up his first career postseason win. The Brewers scored six times in the bottom of the first, three more times in the second, and they rode that to a 93 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

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