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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