The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers combined to make some history in the first inning of Monday’s game.
The two teams have been slugging it out through just 10 innings at American Family Field, and the first inning of Monday’s Game 2 put them in the record books.
In the top of the first inning, the Cubs got two runners on with one man out, and Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby gave up a towering three-run home run to Seiya Suzuki, giving Chicago a 3-0 lead.
Unfortunately for the Cubs, that lead didn’t hold long. After Shota Imanaga started the bottom of the first with two strikeouts, he yielded singles to William Contreras and Christian Yelich before Andrew Vaughn popped a three-run homer into the left field bleachers to tie the game at 3-3.
According to MLB.com’s Sarah Langs, the pair of long balls made Game 2 the first postseason game in MLB history in which each team hit a three-run home run or better in the first inning.
Those six runs, combined with the seven scored in the first inning of Game 1, also set an MLB record. According to TBS, the 13 runs scored in the first inning of the first two games of the series are an MLB record for a playoff series, eclipsing the mark of 11 scored in the first innings of the first two games of the 1989 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and San Francisco Giants.
The Cubs are hoping to come back to Wrigley Field with the series tied at 1-1, while the Brewers are aiming to take command of the series on Monday night.
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