With two outs in the bottom of the ninth on Sunday, a 101.3 mph Mason Miller fastball found the barrel of Jackson Chourio's bat and shot back through the middle, sending Christian Yelich and Sal Frelick across home plate to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 walk-off win over the San Diego Padres in Game 2 of the NLDS.

Three consecutive fastballs from Miller set the tone — the first registering 100 mph, then a pair of strikes clocked at 102 and 104 mph to close out the count. Chourio held his ground through the sequence, putting bat on ball to extend the plate appearance while reading what looked like an incoming slider from the Padres reliever, whose pitches had been creeping upward through the zone.

With the count at five pitches, a hanging slider from Miller dropped into the lower part of the strike zone. Chourio held back on the pitch, keeping the at-bat alive. At a 2-2 count, a 101 mph fastball from Miller climbed toward the upper portion of the strike zone. Chourio's bat sent the ball back up the middle, where it skipped along the infield dirt and slipped just beyond Cronenworth's reach as he dove to intercept it. A run came in for Yelich.

Frelick stepped in to bat after Chourio, who through an interpreter described the hit as something he was pleased to have produced — noting that family members watching from the stands gave it added meaning — and by the time that ninth inning arrived, San Diego held a 3-2 advantage with win-probability calculations placing their chances at 98 percent.

Of the first 15 batters Miller faced in postseason play, 12 left via strikeout — a rate that pushed the MLB strikeout record to a new threshold — capping an eighth-inning turn through Milwaukee's order in which no batter reached base. With one out already recorded in the ninth, Yelich drew a walk off Miller and promptly took second on a stolen base. A base on balls brought Frelick to first.

A fly ball off Vaughn's bat put San Diego one out away from leaving Milwaukee with a series split. With Sánchez having worked the count all the way to 3-2 before taking ball four, the bases were loaded and Chourio stepped in to bat.

At 22 years and 80 days old when the moment arrived, Chourio entered a short list of players who have delivered postseason walk-off hits in MLB history — a group where only Edgar Renteria's 1997 performance stands above him by age at the time of the feat.

Across the first pair of NLDS contests, pitchers from the Padres and Brewers collectively delivered 83 triple-digit offerings — a total that had already surpassed any prior MLB postseason series on record. That mark of 56 had stood since a four-game postseason meeting between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants back in 2016. Between them, San Diego and Milwaukee put up nearly twice that run total across half as many contests.

Misiorowski, pitching for Milwaukee alongside Miller, added his arm to a series defined by high-velocity throwing from both sides. Holding a 2-0 advantage in the series, Milwaukee will host no further home contests, with the remaining games set to take place at San Diego's venue.