Brewers’ Sanchez gets hammered as Chourio and Perkins power big Sunday scoring bursts across MLB

Sunday’s slate delivered a trio of noteworthy offensive statements, with Milwaukee’s lineup turning a pitching change into damage, Colorado putting up a historic number, and New York leaning on another late-inning scoring burst.

For the Brewers, the turning point came against Phillies left-hander Cristopher Sanchez. Milwaukee tagged him for two home runs, beginning with Jackson Chourio’s leadoff homer. Blake Perkins then extended the inning damage, launching a three-run blast in the fourth that helped separate the game early and force Phillies’ leverage pitching plans off script.

The back-to-back long balls mattered in the way they arrived: not as isolated mistakes, but as early-game punches that erased the normal rhythm a starter tries to establish in the first half of an outing. After allowing three home runs across his first 13 starts, Sanchez had given up three long balls over his past two outings, a trend that raised questions about pitch location and sequencing as the month progressed.

The broader American League and National League picture also featured bold run totals. The Rockies scored a franchise-record 23 runs on Sunday against the Athletics, a kind of offensive outlier that typically reshapes how fans talk about a team’s ceiling, even if it does not necessarily predict future production. Games like that often come down to sustained extra-base damage, shorter at-bats that preserve bullpen arms, and an opponent’s inability to escape innings once traffic gets on base.

In New York, the Yankees continued a familiar theme from recent play, staging a big ninth inning again. Their late-inning production underscores how they have often treated the back half of games as a window to manufacture runs, whether through timely hitting, pressure at-bats, or bullpen matchups.

Taken together, the Sunday results highlight three different ways offense can swing a week. Milwaukee’s damage came through power placed in key moments, Colorado’s output suggests an unusually efficient stretch of run generation, and the Yankees’ late surge speaks to sustained pressure after the middle innings.

Still, there are limits to how much any single day should be used as a measuring stick. One franchise-record game does not necessarily mean Colorado has solved every run-prevention issue, and one difficult start does not automatically define a pitcher’s season arc. For Sanchez, the more actionable takeaway is the small sample trend of recent home runs, which can be interpreted as regression risk unless the underlying mechanics or pitch quality adjust.

What to watch next is how quickly teams respond when the opponent’s strengths are exposed. For the Phillies, it will be about whether they can refine game plans when their starters come under early power pressure. For Milwaukee, the focus is whether Chourio’s ability to start games with impact and Perkins’ capacity to convert middle innings into multi-run swings persist against different types of pitching. For the Rockies and Yankees, the next few games will determine whether Sunday’s scoring spikes represent a repeatable pattern or simply a peak day that happens in baseball’s long season.