The first playoff game for the Brewers' Jackson Chourio has major highs and lows

“Chour-io! Chour-io!”

The cheers from the left stands at American Family Field hailed Milwaukee's budding superstar, the 20/20-year-old who had just made back-to-back key contributions to a potential playoff victory.

For Chourio, however, there was another hiccup followed by an avalanche of bad news as the New York Mets scored five runs in the inning and cruised to an 8-4 victory over the Brewers in the opening game of a best-of-three National League wild-card series .

Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio hit an RBI single in the fourth inning Tuesday night at American Family Field.

At the end of the fourth quarter, Chourio's RBI single – which initially set up a hustle double before an error was retroactively credited to center fielder Tyrone Taylor – had just tied the game, part of a rally that gave the Brewers a 4-3 lead. It was Chourio's second playoff hit after a single in the first.

A batter in the top of the fifth, Chourio's diving catch on the wall may have canceled out a home run by Starling Marte and temporarily preserved a slender 4-3 lead that Milwaukee gained later in the fourth. Each scoreboard replay brought a new cheer, not to mention the Chourio-specific chants from the stands.

Then came Taylor's fly to the left, more of a line drive than Marte's. Chourio awkwardly ran back, reached out and lost the ball from his glove for a double. After that the inning went uphill.

“This one kind of ended up in the windows up there, and I couldn't see it that well from the jump,” Chourio said, referring to the windows above the stands on both baselines.

It wouldn't be the only flaw in the inning. Joel Payamps was late and was the first to reveal the possible endgame. The Mets strung together four boundary singles. One of them was a tough play for Willy Adames that he might make another day. The end result: A five-run rally, all after two outs, that turned the tide of Milwaukee's 8-4 loss in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series.

“We just have to keep going today,” Chourio said. “Some of the favorable hits didn’t come through, but tomorrow is a new day and we have to be ready to go.”

“It's a tough left field out there at this time of day,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said of a game that began at 4:30 p.m. and dawned toward the fateful fifth minute. “So that second ball should have been caught, you have to give the boy credit for that. It's a tough line drive in this sun. This is the only place on the field that is difficult. He doesn’t catch the ball, and now we have him” to get four outs. Payamps gets the next out, then he doesn't cover first and then two infield hits…”

The fifth inning is the story, but if the Brewers want to win two straight games and escape with the series, it will require even more production from Chourio, who was one of the team's bright spots in the second half.

“I was very excited,” Chourio said of his first playoff game. “I was just very grateful to have the opportunity to be in this position, to be in this moment, and I was very lucky to have that opportunity.”

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