{"id":165354,"date":"2025-07-10T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/165354\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:37:12","slug":"brewers-record-climbs-as-fanbase-empowers-young-star-jackson-chourio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/165354\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers&#8217; record climbs as fanbase empowers young star Jackson Chourio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\" data-autotag=\"2e988874-d41e-4a95-b9a5-02e215dd7d41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> found themselves tied with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" data-autotag=\"71975c0f-8b3f-4650-915e-eebafe288e15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, 2-2, in the 10th inning, there was a buzz in the air as home fans anxiously awaited in hopes their team would sweep the series in walk-off fashion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Center fielder Jackson Chourio stepped up to the plate confident despite having gone 0-4 in his plate appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the 21-year-old second-year outfielder would rip a single into left field for the first walk-off of his career as the 33,607 fans in attendance broke into an uproar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy\u2019s gonna be around a long time, so get his autograph,\u201d Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy said after the 3-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Chourio was excited to celebrate the achievement of having swept the reigning World Series champs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard-fought game,\u201d Chourio said. \u201cI\u2019m very happy; it was an incredible moment that we were able to finish the sweep with that hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manager credited Brewers fans for helping the ninth youngest team in the MLB sweep the Dodgers at home for the first time in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crowd over the past three days really made a difference,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThese young kids, they\u2019ve never really played for a crowd, they sense it like, \u2018Wow, there\u2019s a community that\u2019s behind us.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a sentiment echoed by Chourio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing Milwaukee definitely has going for us is that the fans love to get on board for the young players,\u201d Chourio said. \u201cIt\u2019s been incredible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a young Brewers team that started the season with an 0-4 record and a minus-32 run differential, to now be making franchise history for a positive reason marks an impressive turnaround as the team has continued to discover its identity.<\/p>\n<p>While the season\u2019s turnaround may surprise some spectators, given how things started, the Brewers fan base\u2019s support has helped make it possible for the youngsters to continue their upward trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Catcher William Contreras, a two-time all-star who\u2019s still young himself at age 27, expressed pride in how his team plays for one another and shared what he believes is its identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe play hard every day,\u201d Contreras said. \u201cThat\u2019s how Milwaukee plays, and that\u2019s how we win games.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After starting the season 2-20 in games where Brewers\u2019 opponents scored first, Milwaukee has won nine of its last 16 games where it began by trailing. This young Brewers squad\u2019s resilience and improvement are evident in the record books, as they have climbed to a 53-40 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The kids are getting experience, and if playing hard is truly this team\u2019s identity, then the records have begun to show that playing hard pays off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Milwaukee Brewers found themselves tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-2, in the 10th inning, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[290,5,136,3874,1610,39,3873,3875,289,57,843,59,4280,4,4305,306,319,169,300,316,6070,6077,301,1646,185,317,1290,5221,3801,1645,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-165354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-chourio","12":"tag-contreras","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-jackson","15":"tag-jackson-chourio","16":"tag-los","17":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","18":"tag-milwaukee","19":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","20":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-murphy","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-pat","29":"tag-pat-murphy","30":"tag-positive","31":"tag-series","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-wi","35":"tag-william","36":"tag-william-contreras","37":"tag-world","38":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114828033954426561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}