Alden Gonzalez Oct 27, 2026, 02:35 AM ET

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ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Jackson Chourio is 22 years old.

"A kid," as Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Daniel Vogelbach put it late Monday night. "He could be playing college baseball right now."

Instead, Game 3 of the World Series -- a 10-1 thrashing of the Tampa Bay Rays that saw Chourio collect a quarter of the Brewers' 16 hits -- was Chourio's 23rd career postseason game, all in these past three years. Through them, he has built a catalogue of experience in his sport's most pressure-packed environments, steeling himself to the point that he has mastered them.

"It's about maintaining a calmness to myself and thinking only about a positive result," Chourio said in Spanish. "I know people expect a lot out of me. I expect a lot out of myself too.…