Milwaukee beat Tampa Bay 4-1 at Tropicana Field to clinch the World Series in five games, the franchise's first championship.
The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions for the first time in franchise history, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday night at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Young ace Jacob Misiorowski threw five and two-thirds scoreless innings of two-hit ball before leaving with a right calf cramp, and rookie Cooper Pratt drove in two runs. Pratt's single in the second inning opened the scoring, David Hamilton added an RBI single in the fifth, and William Contreras' RBI double followed by Pratt's sacrifice fly in the sixth built a 4-0 lead. Tampa Bay's only run came in the ninth, when Liam Hicks doubled and Chandler Simpson drove him in, before Trevor Megill recorded the final out.
The title comes in the 58th season for a franchise that began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and moved to Milwaukee the following year. The Brewers' only previous trip to the World Series, in 1982, ended in defeat to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. Pratt set a Series rookie record with six straight hits before his sixth-inning sacrifice fly, and Jackson Chourio finished with 11 hits in the five games, a five-game Series record.
NBC Sports, CNN and UPI all report the same 4-1 scoreline, the same scorers and the same clinching sequence, and the Brewers' path to the title is consistent across those reports: Milwaukee swept the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, while Tampa Bay beat the Cleveland Guardians in six games for the American League pennant.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy told reporters at the trophy presentation that the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin had pushed the team through, adding that the group would be remembered forever because they were a team. Milwaukee, the league's smallest market, will now prepare for a victory parade instead of a Game 6, and the Rays fall to 0-3 in World Series appearances.