Brewers score vs Padres in Game 2 of NLDS playoffs today, highlights

October 4, 2026 · Yahoo Sports

The Milwaukee Brewers secured a tense Game 1 win in the National League Division Series over the San Diego Padres on Oct. 3, and now comes the even trickier part: Winning a game against the Padres' ace, Michael King.

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Should the Padres take Game 2, it means the Brewers would still need to win at least one of two games in front of a raucous San Diego crowd to extend the season. But Milwaukee is sending its own talented young starter to the mound in Logan Henderson.

Follow live updates from the ballpark throughout the game.

Brewers vs. Padres box score

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Here's the schedule for the rest of the series:

Game 1: Brewers 3, Padres 2. Brewers lead the series, 1-0.
Game 2: Oct. 4, 3 p.m. CT
*Game 3: Oct. 6, 8:30 p.m. CT
*Game 4: Oct. 7, 9 p.m. CT (if necessary)
Game 5: Oct. 9, 3:30 or 7 p.m. CT (if necessary)

Three plays I'm still thinking about from Game 1

03:37 PM ET, October 4 2026, JR Radcliffe

Obviously the play everyone remembers from Game 1 is the ball off the cable in the rafters, or perhaps the home runs by Jackson Chourio and William Contreras. But there are a couple other plays worth noting.

In the seventh, Fernando Tatis roped a single against Abner Uribe with one out. Chourio has played Gold Glove caliber defense in left field this year, and the ability to race over and corral the ball and hold a hard-charging Tatis to a single loomed large when Manny Machado hit a two-out single that only moved Tatis to third. The Brewers wound up stranding the bases loaded that inning.
Garrett Mitchell absolutely shattered his bat on a lightly-struck single that rolled slowly into the outfield grass through the left side in the third inning. The bat went the other direction, with a giant shard landing near second base. It was a bit of luck that came in handy when Mitchell scored on the Jackson Chourio home run.
Manny Machado swung at the first pitch against Jacob Misiorowski with the bases loaded in the second inning and grounded out. At that point, the Brewers' ace's pitch count was already big-time elevated, and DL Hall was already warming in the bullpen. San Diego had already scored twice in the inning and absolutely had Miz on the ropes, but Machado ended the inning, bought the Brewers and Miz a little more time, and the Brewers never allowed another run.

Here's what Pat Murphy said before Game 2

03:37 PM ET, October 4 2026, JR Radcliffe

A sampling of some thoughts from Brewers manager Pat Murphy before Game 2 of the NLDS.

On Chourio batting leadoff against a right-hander...

Get Chourio up there as many times as you can. I think the bottom line is just to get him up there as many times as you can. And it's kind of where I think everybody's comfortable.

On the crazy ball off the roof cable the night before...

Eleven years here, I've never had a ricochet ball. I have never even see anybody hit, like batting practice, anything. Pretty incredible. Now I'm hearing all the stuff coming in about it, whatever.

You just read and react, just respond. I was thinking rules check. First thing I thought is rules check because I wanted to refresh what I thought the rule was. I think they got it right. Never seen anything like it.

On the change of energy for Game 2 of a series after an amped-up Game 1...

I think these guys are Major League Baseball players for a reason. I think they understand this kind of ebb and flow of emotion, you know what I mean, that happens, and I think they'll get back into it.

But I think the great thing about going through it, I think of a guy like Cooper Pratt, you know, the great thing about going through it, or Lara, they went through it and they come out and they go, look, I did pretty good, man. I just focused on the thing.

And they can kind of assess, like, maybe I wasn't thinking right there. Maybe I was too amped or too emotional. I think that experience helps everybody. And I think once you're in it, you don't notice it.

On Logan Henderson...

Last year, he made some starts last year. And you're like, wow, this guy can pitch. And he's just such a tremendous human, like, the way he accepted getting sent down after he pitched, like, a two-hitter here or something, we sent him down the next day. Just the way he handled himself all the way through it.

And then just to see his progression, you just realize, this guy's a pitcher and very consistent. It's just kind of who he is as a person.

On winning a postseason game with home runs...

You hit the ball hard enough, you know what I mean, at the right trajectory, the ball is going to go out of the yard. But in a regular season game, you don't have the match-up, the bullpen movement, the win-at-all-costs because you have seven more games coming in a row, or one time this year we're on a 19-game streak, and fans are, like, why is he not putting Uribe in? Well, he's pitched four out of five.

And that doesn't happen here. So therefore it's tougher to string together hits. And sometimes the homer, that's definitive. Like, the homer, you're going to score runs.

It's a little bit of a crapshoot. It really is a little bit of a crapshoot. And homers are the ones that end up defining the game, usually.

If not, it's still a way we play. We just load up on base runners if we can. We don't have that home run threat out of too many guys.

On Padres starter Michael King...

We watched him last week dominate. He's one of the most underrated pitchers in the game. You know, I think when you mention the best pitchers in the game, you don't always put his name in there. But when you've watched what he's done and how he's done it -- at least the games that I've watched and what he's done against us, he's been really, really good.

On Jacob Misiorowski's relative youth...

I said it this morning to one of the groups I met with this morning. Like, Jacob's a work in progress. He's special. But he's a work in progress. There's a lot he's going to develop in that arsenal. There's a lot to it. And he himself is interested in doing that.

I think having the stuff he did in the first inning and then kind of getting clipped in the second inning -- although there's an infield hit in there, there's a blooper in there, there's a bad defensive play -- but I think that high pitch count and the way that they were able to foul off pitches, I think he'll learn from that and how he can help himself. And it comes back to being a pitcher and locating and doing some things.

I remember Bobby Bonilla told me one time, I played against him in 1983; he was in Alexandria, Virginia. And Bonilla said – we were talking about hitting or something, and he said, hey, bro, I can time up a jet plane if you tell me it's coming. And I've always thought about that.

So velocity doesn't matter if you know it's coming. If he's gonna predominantly throw heaters, and you don't feel confident he can do something else in zone that guys can get to it, or at least foul it off, as we say.

Here's the starting lineups for Game 2

03:37 PM ET, October 4 2026, JR Radcliffe

Here's a look at the lineups for the Game 2 showdown at American Family Field.

Jackson Chourio, left field
Brice Turang, second base
Jake Bauers, first base
William Contreras, catcher
Garrett Mitchell, center field
Christian Yelich, designated hitter
Sal Frelick, right field
Cooper Pratt, shortstop
David Hamilton, third base

Logan Henderson, right-handed pitcher

San Diego Padres lineup for Game 2

Fernando Tatis Jr., right field
Dustin Harris, left field
Manny Machado, third base
Ty France, first base
Jackson Merrill, center field
Ethan Salas, designated hitter
Xander Bogaerts, shortstop
Luis Campusano, catcher
Jake Cronenworth, second base

Michael King, right-handed pitcher

How have the Brewers done in past Game 2s during a five-game series?

03:37 PM ET, October 4 2026, JR Radcliffe

Take a look back at other Game 2s in Brewers history within the context of a five-game series.

2025: Brewers 7, Cubs 3. Chicago scored three runs in the first inning against opener Aaron Ashby with a Seiya Suzuki home run, but the Brewers came right back with Andrew Vaughn's towering game-tying three-run shot in the bottom half. William Contreras added a go-ahead homer in the third and Milwaukee took a 2-0 series lead before battling to a 3-2 series win.
2021: Braves 3, Brewers 0. After a scratch-and-claw 2-1 win over Atlanta in Game 1, the Brewers bats were quiet against Max Fried, churning out no runs on just six hits over the afternoon. Fried worked six innings, striking out nine batters and allowing three hits. Milwaukee went on to lose both games in Atlanta and fell in the series, 3-1.
2018: Brewers 4, Rockies 0. Following a walk-off win in Game 1, the Brewers didn't do much on offense, relying solely on an Hernán Pérez double in the fourth and the pitching of Jhoulys Chacín to nurse a 1-0 edge. But the Brewers added three huge insurance runs in the eighth to make things more comfortable en route to a 3-0 series sweep.
2011: Brewers 9, Diamondbacks 4. Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer in the first inning, though the Diamondbacks came back to tie the game at 4-4 before the Brewers sent 10 batters to the plate in a five-run sixth that featured six straight batters reaching base. The Brewers took a 2-0 lead before surviving the five-game series, 3-2.
2008: Phillies 5, Brewers 2. The Brewers took an early 1-0 lead, but this game became infamous for a nine-pitch walk worked by Phillies starting pitcher Brett Myers against Brewers ace CC Sabathia; two batters later, Shane Victorino hit a grand slam. It was the game where Sabathia ran out of gas after an electric late-season run littered with starts on short rest. The Brewers fell behind in the series, 2-0, and ultimately lost it, 3-1.
1982: Angels 4, Brewers 2. In the ALCS, Paul Molitor hit an inside-the-park home run to pull his team within 4-2, but the Brewers managed just four other hits against the California Angels and fell behind in the series, 2-0. Milwaukee bounced back for three straight wins to reach the World Series.
1981: Yankees 3, Brewers 0. Milwaukee was stifled by Yankees pitcher Dave Righetti, who struck out 10 batters over six shutout innings, and New York home runs by Lou Piniella and Reggie Jackson were all it would need to take a 2-0 series lead. The Brewers battled back to force a fifth game in the series before falling, 3-2, in the unusual format resulting from a strike-divided season.

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