The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in World Series Game 3 in St. Petersburg, scoring eight runs in the fifth inning to take a 3-0 series lead ahead of Game 4 on Tuesday.
The Milwaukee Brewers moved within one win of their first World Series title on Monday night, routing the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in Game 3 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
Milwaukee led 2-0 through four innings, then broke the game open with eight runs in the fifth, all with two outs. The rally turned on a replay review that overturned a call at second base, keeping the inning alive after Christian Yelich was initially ruled out; from there the Brewers produced seven straight two-out hits, a postseason record and the first eight two-out runs in a single World Series inning. Jackson Chourio capped the outburst and finished 4-for-5, William Contreras and Brice Turang each collected three hits, and Milwaukee finished with 16 hits. Rookie left-hander Robert Gasser allowed one hit and one walk over six scoreless innings, striking out three, to earn the win, while Rays starter Freddy Peralta gave up five runs in four and two-thirds innings against his former team.
Gasser became the first left-hander to face the minimum 18 batters through six innings of a World Series game since Sandy Koufax did so for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965. Tampa Bay avoided a shutout when Cedric Mullins scored in the ninth, but could not mount a comeback. The Brewers, whose only previous World Series appearance ended in defeat to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1982, can clinch the title in Game 4 on Tuesday night in St. Petersburg, while the Rays must win to stay alive.
Reuters reporting confirms the score, the fifth-inning sequence and Gasser's line, and the Elias Sports Bureau record for two-out hits is consistent across coverage of the game. One detail varies between outlets, the length of Milwaukee's postseason winning run, so this account states the series position, which is not in dispute, rather than a streak total.
Game 4 now carries the whole series: a Brewers win delivers the franchise's first championship, while a Rays win only delays the question and forces Milwaukee to try again.