Chourio Drives Brewers to 3-0 World Series Lead With Four-Hit Game
Milwaukee's 22-year-old outfielder collected four hits in Game 3, a 10-1 win that put the Brewers one victory from their first title.
By Emmanuel Faure ·
The Milwaukee Brewers are one win from their first championship in 57 years, and a 22-year-old is carrying the offense. Jackson Chourio went 4-for-4 in Game 3 on Monday night, becoming the youngest player to record four hits in a World Series game in 80 years.
The Brewers routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 to take a 3-0 series lead. Milwaukee's lineup collected 16 hits, four of them from Chourio. The rally began with eight two-out runs in the fifth inning. Chourio opened that inning with a single up the middle and closed it with a double to right-center field. Tampa Bay starter Nick Martinez gave up a first-inning blitz in Game 1, and Milwaukee erased a four-run deficit in Game 2.
Chourio has eight hits through the first three games of this series. He has now appeared in 23 career postseason games, all within the past three years. His regular-season OPS from 2024 to 2026 sits at .799; in the playoffs it is .882. Across that three-year span he became the first player to post three straight seasons of 20 home runs and 20 steals before turning 23. League-wide, OPS runs 39 points higher in the regular season than in the postseason over the same period.
Chourio signed with Milwaukee out of Venezuela in 2021 at age 16, when Matt Arnold served as general manager under David Stearns. Arnold, now the club's president of baseball operations, said Chourio is "turning into a superstar right in front of our eyes." Hitting coach Daniel Vogelbach, speaking late Monday, called him "a kid" who "could be playing college baseball right now." Milwaukee captain Christian Yelich offered a shorter read: "He's got that slow heartbeat. He likes the moment."
Néstor Corredor, the Brewers field coordinator who also managed Chourio in Venezuelan winter ball and the World Baseball Classic, said he watched the hitter grow too anxious during a rematch with the Los Angeles Dodgers before dialing his approach back. Corredor said Chourio is "understanding that this is a complete team and he doesn't have to be the hero." Gary Sánchez, Milwaukee's backup catcher, said in Spanish that Chourio "likes these moments more than the regular season."
Chourio's middle name is Bryan, for Kobe Bryant. His brother Jaison, an outfielder in the Cleveland Guardians system, carries the middle name Oneel, for Shaquille O'Neal, after their father Jackson Sr. followed the Los Angeles Lakers through their early-2000s run. Chourio said he has read portions of Bryant's autobiography, "The Mamba Mentality." "I know how hard I've worked for this," he said. "But the fact it's all working out the best way possible is truly gratifying."
Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday in St. Petersburg.
Source: ESPN
