The Milwaukee Brewers’ 9-3 blowout victory over the Chicago Cubs in the teams’ National League Division Series Game 1 matchup at American Family Field on Oct. 4 was one to remember.
Playing in unseasonable and near-record heat in front of a sellout crowd of 42,678, the Brewers put up all nine of their runs in the first two innings against Cubs starter Matthew Boyd and reliever Michael Soroka and cruised the rest of the way to their first victory in a postseason Game 1 since defeating the Atlanta Braves, 2-1, in the 2021 NLDS.
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Not surprisingly, there were several team and individual offensive records either set or approached by Milwaukee in its blowout.
Here’s the list.
Brewers team and individual offensive records set, or approached, in Game 1
– Milwaukee’s nine runs were tied for second-most in a postseason game in franchise history. The Brewers scored 10 runs in their Game 1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series on Oct. 12, 1982.
They scored nine runs in their Game 1 victory over the Cardinals in the NLCS on Oct. 9, 2011.
– Milwaukee’s nine runs were the third-most in the first two innings in a game in major-league history in the postseason, trailing only the Los Angeles Dodgers (12 runs in Game 3 of the 2020 NLCS) and Cardinals (11 runs in Game 5 of the NLDS).
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The Brewers’ nine runs in the first two innings of a team’s postseason were the most ever.
Jackson Chourio became the first player in major-league history to record three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game.
– The six-run first inning against the Cubs tied a franchise mark for most runs in an inning in a postseason game, set against the Cardinals in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the World Series on Oct. 16, 1982, and matched against the Cardinals in the fifth inning of Game 1 of the NLCS.
– The Brewers batted around in the first and second innings against the Cubs for the fifth and sixth times in the postseason in franchise history. The last time was against the Dodgers in Game 6 of the NLCS on Oct. 19, 2018.
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– Freddy Peralta’s nine strikeouts matched a postseason franchise record first set by Don Sutton against the California Angels in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Oct. 8, 1982, then later matched by Yovani Gallardo in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Oct. 1, 2011, and Brandon Woodruff in Game 2 of the NL wild-card series on Oct. 1, 2020.
– Jackson Chourio became the first player in major-league history to record three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game.
– With his two hits in the first inning (double, single), Chourio became the 45th player in major-league history to accomplish the feat and the first since Carlos Correa of the Houston Astros did it in Game 4 of the ALCS.
– Chourio’s, Brice Turang’s and William Contreras’ consecutive doubles to lead off the game were tied for the second-most extra-base hits to start a postseason game ever behind only the four straight recorded by the New York Mets in Game 4 of the NLCS.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers set or tied several records in their Game 1 NLDS victory