MILWAUKEE -- After rallying to halt their streak of postseason futility, the Milwaukee Brewers will be looking to secure their first playoff series win in six years when they face the New York Mets on Thursday in the deciding game of the National League wild-card series. The NL Central champion Brewers, who had lost their last 20 playoff games when trailing entering the seventh inning, rallied for a 5-3 victory Wednesday night to even the best-of-three series at a game apiece. Garrett Mitchell lined a two-run homer in the eighth inning for the go-ahead runs and rookie Jackson Chourio homered twice as Milwaukee snapped a six-game playoff losing streak.
Rookie right-hander Tobias Myers (9-6, 3.00 ERA) starts for third-seeded Milwaukee. He will be opposed by left-hander Jose Quintana (10-10, 3.
75). The Brewers, in the postseason for the sixth time in seven seasons, has lost five consecutive playoff series since sweeping Colorado in the National League Division Series in 2018. The Brewers then lost the NL Championship Series in seven games to the Dodgers.
The Mets' postseason series drought is even longer than the Brewers. New York has not won a playoff series since a four-game sweep of the Cubs in the 2015 NLCS. The Brewers were 5-1 against the Mets during the regular season, including winning two of three in the teams' final series last weekend in Milwaukee.
Chourio, 20, is the second-youngest player in major league history to homer twice in a postseason game, behind only Atlan.