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Brewers Beat Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to Win First World Series Title in Franchise History
The wait is over in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Wednesday night at Tropicana Field to win Game 5 and close out the World Series four games to one, capturing the first championship in franchise history.
Jacob Misiorowski set the tone. The 24-year-old ace held the Rays scoreless over 5 2/3 innings, allowing just two hits before right calf cramps ended his night in the sixth. He started and won Games 1 and 5 of the Series, and his season now sits in rare company: he is the first pitcher since Sandy Koufax in 1963 to post a 250-strikeout season with a sub-2.00 ERA and win the World Series clincher in the same year.
Rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt opened the scoring in the second inning, singling home Brice Turang off Rays starter Drew Rasmussen. Pratt finished with two hits and two RBIs, and his six consecutive hits across Games 4 and 5 set a World Series record for a rookie.
David Hamilton’s RBI single in the fifth made it 2-0. William Contreras doubled home a run in the sixth and later scored on Pratt’s sacrifice fly to push the lead to 4-0. From there, JoJo Romero, Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill covered the final 3 1/3 innings. The Rays broke through in the ninth on Chandler Simpson’s two-out RBI double, but Megill got Richie Palacios to ground out for the final out of the season.
Milwaukee’s title caps a wire-to-wire year. The Brewers finished 103-59, the best record in baseball and a franchise record, then went 11-2 in October, beating San Diego in the Division Series, sweeping Los Angeles in the National League Championship Series and finishing the Rays in five games. The franchise, which began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969, had reached the World Series only once before, in 1982.
For Tampa Bay, the wait continues. The Rays have reached the World Series three times without winning it, and their lone win in this Series came in Game 4, a 12-inning 4-3 victory on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, they managed four hits against Misiorowski and the Milwaukee bullpen.
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Pinch hitter Ben Williamson delivered a walk-off single in the 12th inning as the Tampa Bay Rays staved off elimination with a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night in Game 4 of the World Series at Tropicana Field.
The Brewers, who squandered a 12th-inning lead three outs from their first championship, still lead the best-of-seven series 3-1. Game 5 is set for Wednesday night in St. Petersburg.
After rookie Cooper Pratt capped his four-hit performance with a homer leading off the top of the 12th, giving Milwaukee a 3-2 lead, Tampa Bay saved its season in the bottom of the inning. Junior Caminero reached on a throwing error by third baseman Joey Ortiz to open the inning and chase Antonio Senzatela. Shane Drohan (0-1) relieved and allowed a single to Liam Hicks that put runners on the corners, and Jonny DeLuca’s single up the middle plated pinch runner Cedric Mullins to tie the game 3-3. Chandler Simpson’s single loaded the bases before Williamson bounced a single into right field, scoring pinch runner Nick Fortes to end the game. Drohan permitted one run on four hits without retiring a batter.
Pratt, who also had an RBI double in the fourth inning, deposited a 2-2 sweeper from Ian Seymour (2-0) over the wall in left-center field in the top of the 12th. Seymour allowed one run on two hits in one inning of relief.
Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio recorded two hits, boosting his total to 10 hits in the first four games of a World Series. The only other player to accomplish that feat was Babe Ruth in 1928.
Simpson ripped an RBI double in the second inning to open the scoring and made a leaping catch at the wall in the ninth for the Rays. Pratt’s fourth-inning double scored Sal Frelick to tie the game 1-1, Tampa Bay retook the lead in the bottom of the fourth when a throwing error by David Hamilton allowed Caminero to score, and Hamilton atoned in the fifth by homering off Griffin Jax to tie the game 2-2, where it stayed until the 12th.
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