Looks like the trend for the Milwaukee Brewers this season is to play awful and then play desperate in the series finale. In their last game, they needed Jackson Chourio to be superhuman to capture the victory.
The team are yet to be swept this season but they were on the brink of suffering it many times in the last two months. They successfully did it again in the win against the Minnesota Twins on Sunday at the American Family Field.
Chourio was responsible for the game’s biggest play when he made a catch in the eighth inning to prevent what would have a been game-tying score by the Twins.
Royce Lewis was at the bat for Minnesota and hit the ball on target to send it to the center field. It looked like it was out of anybody’s reach. The ball was about to fall over the fence but Chourio had other plans.
The 21-year-old outfielder sprinted, jumped high and plucked the ball out of the air just as it was about to become hard to see for viewers due to the fence.
Teammates rave over Jackson Chourio’s play
Chouriou’s teammates were in awe of his feat, which he said was his first ever home run robbery.
“I saw him tracking it down in the gap, and, oh man, those would have been really big runs for them,” said reliever Nick Mears after the game.
“Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, and I’m lucky to have Chourio out there.”
Trevor Megill, meanwhile, thought it was a bad-ass moment.
“Dude, I turned around at the last second and just saw a glove peeking over the wall with a ball in it,” Megill said. “I freaked out. That was badass.”
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