The Division Series round turned brutal for two of baseball's biggest names on Monday night, while a rookie bat in Milwaukee delivered the kind of ending October was made for. The New York Yankees committed four errors — three of them in a single first inning — and fell 5-2 to the Tampa Bay Rays, slipping into an 0-2 hole in their best-of-five ALDS. Across the bracket in San Diego, Jackson Chourio ripped a two-run, walk-off single off a 101 mph fastball to send the Brewers to a 4-3 win and the same 2-0 lead over the Padres.

The Yankees' night unraveled almost immediately. Third baseman Ryan McMahon booted a routine grounder from Yandy Díaz, Jazz Chisholm Jr. then threw wide of first on a potential double play that let Díaz score, and catcher Austin Wells was charged with interference on a check swing — all in the bottom of the first. New York's starter did not survive the damage, and four early errors turned a winnable game into a laugher at Tropicana Field.

History is not on New York's side: teams that fall behind 2-0 in a best-of-five postseason series have gone on to win it just 10 times in 93 tries. The Yankees now need to sweep three straight, starting Wednesday at home, to survive.

Chourio's walk-off and a blown save in San Diego

The Padres' collapse was more sudden. Closer Mason Miller, who posted a 1.67 ERA with a franchise-record 129 strikeouts out of the bullpen this season, came in for the final six outs and recorded only five. He walked Christian Yelich and Sal Frelick to load the bases in the ninth, setting up Chourio for a two-run, walk-off single off a 101 mph fastball that the 21-year-old hit back up the middle at 110 mph off the bat. San Diego stranded 20 runners across the first two games and went 3-for-18 with runners in scoring position.

"IT'S A BIG CHALLENGE. THEY'RE A GREAT TEAM. BUT WE LIKE WHERE WE ARE WHEN WE PLAY AT HOME."

That was Padres manager Craig Stammen, whose team now heads home to Petco Park for Game 3 on Tuesday night needing to win three in a row of their own.

In the National League's other series, the Braves leveled things up with the Dodgers. Michael Harris II tripled and came around to score the go-ahead run on a wild pitch in the fifth inning, then added an RBI double in the seventh as Atlanta beat Los Angeles 3-2 on Sunday to even that NLDS at a game apiece. Dodgers ace Blake Snell lasted just 90 pitches, walking five while Freddie Freeman's solo homer off a Braves reliever was the only offense Los Angeles could muster.

Chicago, meanwhile, is the one team with nothing to sweat. The White Sox beat Cleveland 4-3 in Game 2 behind a three-run sixth inning and a bulldog relief outing from Sean Burke, pushing a franchise that lost 121 games two years ago to the brink of its first trip to the ALCS since 2005 — a separate dispatch from another newsroom has the full blow-by-blow of how Chicago's bullpen slammed the door in Cleveland to get within one win of the ALCS.

Both American League series resume Wednesday, with the Yankees and Guardians each needing to win out at home just to force a Game 4. The National League series head to San Diego and Atlanta/Los Angeles for Game 3 on Tuesday, with Milwaukee and Atlanta both one win from the NLCS.