This 12 months’s NLDS is a bit private for the Milwaukee Brewers, as they don’t seem to be simply going through division rival Chicago Cubs, they’re additionally going through former supervisor Craig Counsell, who determined to depart his hometown ballclub for a sworn rival that resides simply round 90 miles down south. And the Brewers are actually enjoying like they have been wronged, as they’ve taken a 2-0 lead within the NLDS behind an enormous energy efficiency from the staff gave them a 7-3 win in Sport 2 on Monday evening.
The Brewers have remained an excellent ballclub even with Counsell’s departure, and regardless that they’ve misplaced loads of essential contributors over time, what with the likes of Corbin Burnes and Willy Adames, simply to call just a few, leaving the staff, they’ve managed to carry regular because of the emergence of some of their key prospects.
In reality, throughout Counsell’s last 12 months managing the Brewers (2023), each Jackson Chourio and Jacob Misiorowski, two gamers who performed an important position in handing the Cubs the loss in Sport 2, had been the staff’s high prospects. Now, they’ve emerged as official big-league contributors and are even doing their harm in October.
After the sport, the Cubs supervisor gave his trustworthy ideas on seeing the gamers he labored with previously come again to hang-out him and his new staff.
“They’re each actually gifted gamers. I feel you anticipated them to be huge leaguers, completely,” Counsell mentioned, per Curt Hogg of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Craig Counsell on Jacob Misiorowski and Jackson Chourio, who had been the highest 2 prospects within the Brewers system in Counsell’s final 12 months in Milwaukee however had arguably the 2 greatest fingers in beating the Cubs tonight: pic.twitter.com/9TZaGWAP1x
— Curt Hogg (@CyrtHogg) October 7, 2025
Chourio was at all times highly-touted; earlier than he even made it to the large leagues, he signed a contract that could possibly be value as much as as a lot as $142.5 million over 10 years. The Brewers’ religion in him was rewarded instantly.
In the meantime, Misiorowski has displayed unbelievable stuff within the big-leagues, and at 23 years of age, it is solely a matter of time earlier than he blossoms as a mid to top-of-the-rotation-caliber starter for the Brewers.
Cubs have their backs towards the wall
The Cubs couldn’t have began Sport 2 of the NLDS any higher, with Seiya Suzuki hitting a three-run residence run to get issues began for the away staff. However they might not add to their run tally for the following eight innings whereas the Brewers ran away with the sport because of a monster residence run from Chourio and a strong reduction look from Misiorowski.
The Cubs will want herculean efforts to forestall them from snatching their former supervisor’s chain within the postseason.