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A night after Milwaukee's dramatic late-inning win in Game 2, the Brewers and New York Mets face the deciding wild-card series finale on Thursday. The winner will face the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Division Series.

With the Brewers six outs from elimination, 20-year-old rookie Jackson Chourio tied the game in the eighth with his second home run of the night – before Garrett Mitchell hit a two-run pitch that was the game-winner in Milwaukee's 5-run game -round was received. 3 win.

Rookie Tobias Myers (9-6, 3.00 ERA) takes the win for the Brewers, while veteran left-hander Jose Quintana (10-10, 3.75 ERA) gets the start for the Mets in Game 3, which is just about the winner.

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Trailing 2-0 in the ninth inning, Mets first baseman Pete Alonso gave the Mets the lead with a three-run homer off closer Devin Williams, stunning the Milwaukee crowd. The Mets had gone 15 scoreless innings and were just two outs away from elimination.

Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick jumped Mets reliever Jose Butto with consecutive home runs (on consecutive pitches) to lead off the bottom of the seventh, giving the Brewers a 2-0 lead.

Butto came on as a replacement for starter Jose Quintana, who had pitched six scoreless innings. Bauers beat Rhys Hoskins to the right-handed release and hit a bomb to his right to open the scoring. Before fans in Milwaukee even sat down, Frelick scored down the right field line.

He was still scoreless after five innings after Jose Quintana singled out Blake Perkins with a runner on in the second inning to end the bottom of the fifth inning. Milwaukee went 0-7 through the first five innings with runners in scoring position.

Trevor Megill replaces Tobias Myers and starts the sixth after the rookie pitched five scoreless innings with five strikeouts and a hit batsman. Quintana struck out 77 pitches in five innings with three strikeouts.

We're a third of the way through Thursday's Game 3, with the Mets and Brewers trading zeros. Milwaukee starter Tobias Myers has given up two hits with three strikeouts and New York's Jose Quintana has three strikeouts.

The teams are a combined 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position over three innings.

After hitting two home runs on Wednesday, 20-year-old Jackson Chourio led off with a single in the bottom of the first, but Mets left-hander Jose Quintana struck out Blake Perkins, grounded William Contreras and then retired Willy Adames with one back infield popup to put Chourio at second.

Brewers starter Tobias Myers got around Francisco Lindor's leadoff double in the first by striking out Mark Vientos and Brandon Nimmo before getting Pete Alonso to fly to center field

As a 26-year-old rookie, Myers had a 3.00 ERA in 138 innings during the regular season.

NY Mets lineup today

  1. Francisco Lindor (S) SS
  2. Mark Vientos (R) 3B
  3. Brandon Nimmo (L) LF
  4. Pete Alonso (R) 1B
  5. Jose Iglesias (R) 2B
  6. Jesse Winker (L) DH
  7. Starling Marte (R) RF
  8. Tyrone Taylor (R) CF
  9. Francisco Alvarez (R) C

Brewers lineup for Game 3

  1. Jackson Chourio (R) LF
  2. Brice Turang (L) 2B
  3. William Contreras (R) DH
  4. Willy Adames (R) SS
  5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
  6. Rhys Hoskins (R) 1B
  7. Blake Perkins (S) CF
  8. Sal Frelick (left) RF
  9. Joey Ortiz (R) 3B

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