Jackson Chourio and Jacob Misiorowski lead the Brewers to an 8-2 victory over the Mets

NEW YORK (AP) — Jackson Chourio went 4 for 5 with two homers, four RBIs and four runs to help Jacob Misiorowski and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the New York Mets 8-2 on Thursday night.

Misiorowski (14-5) overcame some command issues and reduced velocity — at least by his standards — to allow two hits and strike out six over six innings.

Both hits he gave up came in the fifth, when Jacob Young had an RBI double and Christopher Morel laced a run-scoring single.

Nine of Misiorowski’s 95 pitches were clocked at 100 mph, with none reaching 101 mph. He walked two batters for the second consecutive outing after issuing four walks in seven starts from July 2 through Aug. 15.

The 6-foot-7 right-hander appeared to have issues with his landing foot on the slippery Citi Field mound. Brewers manager Pat Murphy had a discussion with third base umpire and crew chief Vic Carapazza in the third, when Misiorowski fell behind 2-0 on Francisco Alvarez following a walk to Morel. The grounds crew spent a few minutes working on the mound before the bottom of the fourth.

Andrew Vaughn, Gary Sánchez, William Contreras and Cooper Pratt each had an RBI for the Brewers (83-51), who are three games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers for the best record in the big leagues.

Batting leadoff, Chourio hit two-run shots off Sean Manaea (4-6) in the first and Xzavion Curry in the eighth. The two-homer game was the third this season for Chourio and fifth of his career — plus another one in the 2024 playoffs against the Mets.

Manaea gave up six runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings as Milwaukee took two of three games in the series.

Brewers: Return home Friday, when RHP Logan Henderson (8-2, 2.60 ERA) opposes the Texas Rangers and LHP Cody Bradford (0-2, 3.05).

Mets: RHP Christian Scott (4-3, 3.73 ERA) starts Friday at home against RHP Hunter Brown (3-3, 3.51) and the Houston Astros.

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New York Mets pitcher Sean Manaea reacts after Milwaukee Brewers' Jackson Chourio scored a run during the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Milwaukee Brewers' Jackson Chourio, left, celebrates with first base coach Spencer Allen (67) after hitting a two-run home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Milwaukee Brewers' Jackson Chourio watches his two-run home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski delivers a pitch during the second inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Milwaukee Brewers' Jackson Chourio, right, is congratulated by Cooper Pratt (12) after hitting a two-run home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

A federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting.

The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani blocked the government from implementing the order for two weeks.

The case could soon be appealed back to the Supreme Court, days after the justices handed down a procedural decision that allowed the the administration to move ahead.

The ruling Thursday came after Democrats and voting rights groups refiled their lawsuits to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision. The high court's conservative majority did not rule on the legality of Trump’s executive order, instead saying Talwani had acted too soon.

Now the administration has issued a formal rule governing whether the U.S. Postal Service will deliver states’ mail ballots, effectively restarting the legal fight.

The whipsawing legal battle has major ramifications for the midterms. Nearly one-third of Americans vote by mail and election officials contend there isn’t enough time to revise their systems to comply with the new Postal Service directives.

The Postal Service says it won’t deliver mail ballots unless states provide a list of voters who should receive them and format the envelopes in a certain way.

“Plaintiff states have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms," Talwani wrote Thursday.

The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. A hearing in the case is set for Sept. 3.

“This rule is a clear attempt by the federal government to interfere in elections it has no power to control. Today, a federal court halted it before this administration could wreak havoc on our elections,” New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of two dozen Democratic attorneys general who filed one of the suits, said in a statement after the order.

Democrats and voting rights groups contend the Postal Services' demand is unconstitutional. The Constitution, they note, grants states and, in some cases, Congress the power to make election rules — not the president or Postal Service.

That reasoning led courts to block Trump’s first executive order, issued last year, that sought to change election procedures, such as requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register.

The president has long targeted mail voting, which he falsely blames for his 2020 election loss even though he himself uses it to cast his ballot.

A report by the Brookings Institution published in 2025 found that mail voting fraud occurred in only about four cases out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.

Trump issued the executive order targeting mail voting, his second one related to elections since he returned from office, in March.

Opponents quickly sued, but the administration argued the claims were premature because it hadn’t issued rules outlining how it would implement the order. The administration won an initial case in Washington, D.C., with that reasoning, but Talwani placed injunctions against implementing the order for the November midterms in two separate cases she heard in Boston.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday struck down one of those holds.

Talwani, nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, reluctantly removed the second injunction shortly after. The plaintiffs then moved to refile their cases, citing the Postal Service’s publishing of its final rule, in hopes of winning a more durable victory.

An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office for the Florida primary election in Doral, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)