The Milwaukee Brewers are one win away from sweeping the Tampa Bay Rays and capturing the first championship in franchise history after a 10-1 win in Game 3 of the 2026 MLB World Series. And in the middle of all that, Jackson Chourio keeps stacking up numbers that don’t just stand out - they land him in the record book over and over again.
Chourio went 4-for-4 in Game 3, and that performance pushed him into a strange little corner of baseball history that very few players ever reach. Sarah Langs pointed out that Chourio now has eight hits through the first three games of the World Series, which leaves him one shy of the MLB record set by Billy Hatcher in 1990.
That’s only one slice of the story. His postseason production as a whole has been outrageous, and Langs highlighted just how fast he’s climbed the list of all-time October hitters: "Most postseason hits before turning 23: Andruw Jones: 30 (45 games). Jackson Chourio: 29 (23 games)."
If Chourio collects at least two hits in Game 4, he’ll own the record for most postseason hits by a player under 23, and he’d do it in potentially 20 fewer games than Jones needed.
Game 3 gave him another layer of history, too. At 22 years and 229 days old, Chourio became the second-youngest player in World Series history to record four hits and a stolen base in the same game.
Langs noted, "At 22 years and 229 days, Jackson Chourio is the 2nd-youngest player in World Series history with 4 hits and a SB in a game, behind Ty Cobb in 1908 G3 (21y 299d). He's the youngest player with a 4-hit WS game since Joe Garagiola in 1946 G4 (20y 240d)."
The way he got there made the inning even wilder. In the fifth, with Milwaukee already pouring it on and moving toward a 10-0 lead, Chourio had a two-hit, one-stolen-base frame that turned into history on its own.
Langs also noted, "There are 47 instances in postseason history of a player having 2 hits in an inning. Jackson Chourio is the only player to do it twice (2025 NLDS G1, 1st)."
Then came another first. Chourio became the first player ever to post two hits and a stolen base in a World Series inning.
Langs shared, "Jackson Chourio is the first player in World Series history with two hits and a SB in an inning. Only others in any postseason inning: 2000 ALDS G5 Chuck Knoblauch, 1st.
1990 ALCS G1 Rickey Henderson, 9th."
So in a single night, Chourio added several more lines to a postseason resume that is already looking historic. The Brewers are still playing for the title, but his October has already turned into a record chase of its own.
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