Milwaukee dominates, 10-1: The Brewers used a couple of soft hits to strike first, but then used a huge, eight-run fifth inning rally – all with two outs –to take a commanding lead. From there it was academic and the Brew Crew is up 3-0 in the 2026 Fall Classic.
World Series history: The Brewers’ fifth-inning rally set two new records in the Fall Classic. The seven consecutive two-out hits was a record, as was the eight-run burst the Brewers scored with two outs.
One win away: The Brewers last appeared in the World Series in 1982 and have never won a championship. They appear on track to rewrite franchise history – unless Tampa has a miracle comeback in store.
Tampa faces long odds: No team has ever come back from a 0-3 deficit in the World Series.
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Our live coverage of Game 3 of the 2026 World Series has ended. Catch up with a full wrap of the action here and analysis from CNN Sports’ Hannah Keyser here.
There were nine innings of Monday’s Game 3, but it really all came down to one half-inning of history.
The Milwaukee Brewers used seven consecutive hits to score eight runs, all of which came with two outs, to trounce the Tampa Bay Rays and move within one win of claiming the franchise’s first World Series. Both those seven consecutive two-out hits and eight two-out runs were World Series records.
The final score: 10-1.
The Brewers got on the board first in the third with a couple of soft hits that found the right holes in the Rays’ defense. Jackson Chourio laced a single – his second in a day where he would go 4 for 5 – and Jake Bauers drew a walk. They cashed in when Christian Yelich hit his second bloop single of the game to bring Chourio in.
On the very next pitch, William Contreras dropped a single into right field where Victor Mesa, Jr. struggled to field it cleanly, allowing Bauers to score.
The Rays quickly went down in order repeatedly, dominated by Brewers’ starter Robert Gasser. When the Brewers came up in the top of the fifth, they were poised to make history.
With Chourio and Yelich having reached on a hit and walk, Contreras hit a chopper to third base, but replay showed Yelich beat the throw from a spinning Caminero at second, setting up a bases loaded situation. After a pitching change, Brice Turang then smashed a ball right back through the box and off the glove of Taylor Walls. Chourio and Yelich scored as the ball trickled into center field.
That started the hit parade.
The Brewers kept the pressure on with a single from Garrett Mitchell and a double from Cooper Pratt to plate three more runs and suddenly the game was out of hand. Sal Frelick then hit a double into the left field corner to bring Pratt in for with yet another run.
After a pitching change, David Hamilton smacked a single into center field off Cole Sulser to score Frelick. Chourio, who is just 22, then came up and collected his second hit of the inning, a double to plate Hamilton from first base.
After that, things were pretty much academic (even if Frelick was diving in the outfield up 10 runs on his injured shoulder). The Rays scored once in the bottom of the ninth on Yandy Díaz’s long double to make it 10-1.
The Brewers look nailed on to win this series – and if they don’t, it’ll be a historic comeback for the Rays. No team has ever come back from 0-3 in the World Series to win the championship.
The first two games of the World Series were close – each ended with the tying run 90 feet from home on third base.
The crazy part is, they didn’t feel close. They felt like legitimate and legible depictions of how the Brewers never waver on the way to ultimate success. They felt like the Brewers were the better team.
But if there was any doubt, allow Game 3 to convince you.
The Rays – a great team, the other one-seed! – managed just three hits. They made outs on the basepaths again, and their regular season aggressiveness on the bases has started to look like a liability this series. Chandler Simpson made the catch of the postseason early on, but errors plagued them elsewhere.
It’s not their fault, though.
What are you supposed to do against a team that can put up double-digits on small ball? The Brewers scored 10 runs without the ball leaving the park once. They scored eight of them with two outs in the fifth inning on a history-making seven-straight hits (no team has had that many consecutive hits in a postseason…ever).
The next time they came to the plate, they managed another couple singles that never came around to score, but the point is: These guys do not let up.
Jackson Chourio was 4-for-5. Robert Gasser – a 27-year-old rookie – faced the minimum through six innings. And the bullpen is usually the Brewers’ biggest strength!
It’s very probable the Brewers will win the World Series, possibly as soon as tomorrow night. It will be the first in the team’s history.
When they do, it will be because they undeniably deserve it. They have lost just one game this entire postseason. They swept the two-time champion Dodgers who are regularly and accurately compared to Goliath. They had the best regular-season record. They had the best regular-season record last year.
And, even if you’re uninterested in the labor implications, we should never stop marveling that a team which plays in the smallest media market in the sport, with a bottom-10 payroll, has established this level of consistent dominance.
Or, we’re about to witness an all-time comeback by the Rays.
No ninth inning drama this time around.
Brandon Woodruff comes on in the ninth and immediately gets Victor Mesa, Jr. to fly out softly to right field. An infield single for Cedric Mullins followed and then Woodruff struck out Jorge Mateo.
Yandy Díaz stepped to the plate with two outs, just as he did in Game 2, but the stakes were levels lower this time around. With a full count, Díaz got the Rays on the board with a double to left-center field that he (and the Brewers outfielders) thought was gone. Mullins came around to score easily.
On the very next pitch, Jonathan Aranda grounded out to second base and it was all over.
The Brewers are one win away from the title!
Final score: Brewers 10, Rays 1
Brandon Woodruff, who hasn’t pitched in a game since July 4, is in to pitch the ninth inning.
He is the longest-tenured Brewers player, and the erstwhile ace. But in recent years, he’s been plagued by injury. He hasn’t thrown more than 67 innings in a season since 2022.
The decision to put him on the World Series roster came down to the last minute, and it’s hard to imagine a more perfect opportunity to include him in this postseason run than this cushy final frame.
Brewers 10, Rays 0
Brice Turang collected his third hit of the game with a double into the left field corner to lead of the top of the ninth inning.
Turang is one of four Brewers – along with Jackson Chourio, Christian Yelich and William Contreras – who have more hits than the entire Rays team.
Rays pitcher Steven Matz worked around the trouble though and sends Game 3 to the bottom of the ninth.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
In a visceral manifestation of the Brewers’ relentless commitment to playing hard, Sal Frelick made a diving catch to keep the Rays at just one hit through eight innings.
It was a nifty play for the 2024 Gold Glove-winner. But even more than that, it was a stunning testament to how hard these Brewers play.
Frelick spent time on the injured list this year for a torn labrum that remains … well, torn. And probably pretty uncomfortable after hitting the artificial turf of the Trop.
Into the ninth inning we go.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
Finally, Milwaukee appears to have taken their foot off the gas, seemingly content to coast to victory and a commanding 3-0 lead in the World Series.
No team has ever rallied from 3-0 down to win in the Fall Classic. In fact, no team has even managed for force a Game 6 in the World Series after going down three game to none.
The Rays have six more outs until they’re facing that scenario.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
The goal for the Brewers now is to get their most trusted, and oft-relied upon, relievers an extra day of rest by keeping them out of the game.
The goal for the Rays should be to force Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy to dip into his circle of trust.
The Rays are failing at that goal now, too, along with the “winning a baseball game” goal. Gasser is gone, but the Rays are still retired in order in the seventh.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
Garrett Cleavinger came on to pitch the seventh inning for the Rays, and proceeded to sit the Brewers down in order.
Even more impressively, Cleavinger managed to strike out Brewers’ lead-off man Jackson Chourio, who had been 4-for-4 in the game to that point.
Barring a historic comeback, the Brewers are poised to push the Rays to the brink of elimination.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
The Rays lead off the sixth with a walk from Victor Mesa, Jr.
Then Nick Fortes grounds into a double play, Taylor Walls grounds out, and somehow Robert Gasser has still faced the minimum in this lopsided clinic being put on by the Brewers.
Gasser is first Brewers pitcher to get even a single out in the sixth inning this whole postseason, and he completes the frame easily.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
The Brewers started the 6th inning with 13 hits to the Rays’ one, and Milwaukee went looking for more.
William Contreras and Brice Turang got back-to-back infield hits and the Brewers once again had ducks on the pond.
Cole Sulser managed to escape the inning unscathed, but the Brewers are putting on a textbook example of their “small-ball” style that has confounded opponents all season.
Remarkably, the Brewers have put up a 10-spot through six innings without the benefit of a home run.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
It is highly unlikely that the Rays will come back in this game. And they definitely will not come back in this game if they continue to go down in order.
Ironically, Tampa still has the three hardest-hit balls of the game – including Yandy Díaz’s 115.5 mph single, which is the hardest hit ball of the postseason.
Baseball is weird sometimes!
Brewers 10, Rays 0
New pitcher, same result for the Brewers – and we’ve got history in the World Series.
David Hamilton smacked a single into center field off Cole Sulser to score Sal Frelick.
Jackson Chourio, who is just 22, then came up and collected his second hit of the inning, a double to plate Hamilton from first base. Next, Jake Bauers mercifully hit a flyout to end the inning.
But the damage was done – seven consecutive two-out hits from the Brewers to put this game out of reach, a World Series record.
Milwaukee’s eight runs in the inning are two more than the Rays have scored so far in the entire series. It’s also a World Series record for most runs in an inning scored by a team with two outs.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
Rays third baseman Junior Caminero made a nice leaping catch to rob David Hamilton of a hit to start the fifth inning.
It was a good thing, too, because Jackson Chourio came up next and collected his third hit of the game.
Jake Bauers hit a flyout, then Christian Yelich worked Freddy Peralta for a walk, and the Brewers suddenly had a chance to break the game wide open.
The Brewers’ postseason hero William Contreras was up next and hit a chopper to third base, but Yelich beat the throw from a spinning Caminero at second, setting up a bases loaded situation.
That was the end of the line for Freddy Peralta, who was replaced by Cam Booser to face Brice Turang.
Turang then smashed a ball right back through the box and off the glove of Taylor Walls. Chourio and Yelich scored as the ball trickled into center field.
That started the hit parade.
The Brewers kept the pressure on with a single from Garrett Mitchell and a double from Cooper Pratt to plate three more runs and suddenly this game is out of hand.
Sal Frelick then hit a double into the left field corner to bring Pratt in with yet another run.
Six two-out runs have crossed for the Brewers in the inning, and they’re still batting as the Rays make another pitching change.
Score: Brewers 8, Rays 0
At the end of this series, the final party will begin. It will be the last in a long line of them.
Every major US sport has multi-round postseason schedules, but none of them party like MLB teams. Locker room celebrations in the NFL tend to be subdued until the Super Bowl, and since hockey players are famously superstitious, popping bottles early is practically verboten in the NHL; the Stanley Cup is all that really matters.
Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager Tom McLaughlin has spent over 40 years with the Red Sox, and he says he’s lost track of how many celebrations he’s been involved in, but he counts them in the dozens. He told CNN Sports it was “pretty tame” when he started in the ‘80s, when the postseason was much shorter, but the back end of the season now can feel like one enormous bender for the most successful teams.
Clinched a playoff spot? Party.
Successfully navigate the wildcard round? Let’s get wild.
Made it through the Divisional Round? Get another round in.
Won the Championship Series? We’re going on a spree.
By the time a baseball club wins the World Series, let’s just say that the celebration will not be their first rodeo. Everyone will have had plenty of practice.
Read more here on why baseball teams party all the time, party all the time, party all the time in October.
William Contreras had the most challenges among catchers in the regular season and he flexes that propensity again to help Robert Gasser complete another 1-2-3 inning.
While we’re at it, the Brewers have been calling Contreras “Bill.” That’s all I’ve got to make this post interesting. Rays, help me out!
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Freddy Peralta performed a rare feat in the 4th inning – he retired the Brewers in order.
Peralta struck out Garrett Mitchell and Cooper Pratt, which injected some much-needed life into the crowd in St. Pete.
A groundout from Sal Frelick ended the inning in quick fashion, but the Rays need to find a way to break up the rhythm of Brewers’ starter Robert Gasser and do it quickly.
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Through three the Rays are making solid contact off Robert Gasser – two of the outs in that frame were over 100 mph off the bat – but he’s managed to face the minimum and given up just a single hit, back in the first.
In a word: he’s cruising, with credit to the Brewers defense, which has been airtight so far tonight.
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Another inning, another rally for the Brewers.
After a quick out, Jackson Chourio laced another single – his second of the game already – and Jake Bauers drew a walk, and Freddy Peralta was right back in the soup.
This time, they cashed in as Christian Yelich hit his second bloop single of the game to bring Chourio in for the first run of the game.
On the very next pitch, William Contreras dropped a single into right field where Victor Mesa, Jr. struggled to field it cleanly, allowing Bauers to score.
Peralta escaped the inning without any further damage, but the Rays once again find themselves in the unenviable position of playing catch-up against the Brewers.
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Milwaukee dominates, 10-1: The Brewers used a couple of soft hits to strike first, but then used a huge, eight-run fifth inning rally – all with two outs –to take a commanding lead. From there it was academic and the Brew Crew is up 3-0 in the 2026 Fall Classic.
World Series history: The Brewers’ fifth-inning rally set two new records in the Fall Classic. The seven consecutive two-out hits was a record, as was the eight-run burst the Brewers scored with two outs.
One win away: The Brewers last appeared in the World Series in 1982 and have never won a championship. They appear on track to rewrite franchise history – unless Tampa has a miracle comeback in store.
Tampa faces long odds: No team has ever come back from a 0-3 deficit in the World Series.
Our live coverage of Game 3 of the 2026 World Series has ended. Catch up with a full wrap of the action here and analysis from CNN Sports’ Hannah Keyser here.
There were nine innings of Monday’s Game 3, but it really all came down to one half-inning of history.
The Milwaukee Brewers used seven consecutive hits to score eight runs, all of which came with two outs, to trounce the Tampa Bay Rays and move within one win of claiming the franchise’s first World Series. Both those seven consecutive two-out hits and eight two-out runs were World Series records.
The final score: 10-1.
The Brewers got on the board first in the third with a couple of soft hits that found the right holes in the Rays’ defense. Jackson Chourio laced a single – his second in a day where he would go 4 for 5 – and Jake Bauers drew a walk. They cashed in when Christian Yelich hit his second bloop single of the game to bring Chourio in.
On the very next pitch, William Contreras dropped a single into right field where Victor Mesa, Jr. struggled to field it cleanly, allowing Bauers to score.
The Rays quickly went down in order repeatedly, dominated by Brewers’ starter Robert Gasser. When the Brewers came up in the top of the fifth, they were poised to make history.
With Chourio and Yelich having reached on a hit and walk, Contreras hit a chopper to third base, but replay showed Yelich beat the throw from a spinning Caminero at second, setting up a bases loaded situation. After a pitching change, Brice Turang then smashed a ball right back through the box and off the glove of Taylor Walls. Chourio and Yelich scored as the ball trickled into center field.
That started the hit parade.
The Brewers kept the pressure on with a single from Garrett Mitchell and a double from Cooper Pratt to plate three more runs and suddenly the game was out of hand. Sal Frelick then hit a double into the left field corner to bring Pratt in for with yet another run.
After a pitching change, David Hamilton smacked a single into center field off Cole Sulser to score Frelick. Chourio, who is just 22, then came up and collected his second hit of the inning, a double to plate Hamilton from first base.
After that, things were pretty much academic (even if Frelick was diving in the outfield up 10 runs on his injured shoulder). The Rays scored once in the bottom of the ninth on Yandy Díaz’s long double to make it 10-1.
The Brewers look nailed on to win this series – and if they don’t, it’ll be a historic comeback for the Rays. No team has ever come back from 0-3 in the World Series to win the championship.
The first two games of the World Series were close – each ended with the tying run 90 feet from home on third base.
The crazy part is, they didn’t feel close. They felt like legitimate and legible depictions of how the Brewers never waver on the way to ultimate success. They felt like the Brewers were the better team.
But if there was any doubt, allow Game 3 to convince you.
The Rays – a great team, the other one-seed! – managed just three hits. They made outs on the basepaths again, and their regular season aggressiveness on the bases has started to look like a liability this series. Chandler Simpson made the catch of the postseason early on, but errors plagued them elsewhere.
It’s not their fault, though.
What are you supposed to do against a team that can put up double-digits on small ball? The Brewers scored 10 runs without the ball leaving the park once. They scored eight of them with two outs in the fifth inning on a history-making seven-straight hits (no team has had that many consecutive hits in a postseason…ever).
The next time they came to the plate, they managed another couple singles that never came around to score, but the point is: These guys do not let up.
Jackson Chourio was 4-for-5. Robert Gasser – a 27-year-old rookie – faced the minimum through six innings. And the bullpen is usually the Brewers’ biggest strength!
It’s very probable the Brewers will win the World Series, possibly as soon as tomorrow night. It will be the first in the team’s history.
When they do, it will be because they undeniably deserve it. They have lost just one game this entire postseason. They swept the two-time champion Dodgers who are regularly and accurately compared to Goliath. They had the best regular-season record. They had the best regular-season record last year.
And, even if you’re uninterested in the labor implications, we should never stop marveling that a team which plays in the smallest media market in the sport, with a bottom-10 payroll, has established this level of consistent dominance.
Or, we’re about to witness an all-time comeback by the Rays.
No ninth inning drama this time around.
Brandon Woodruff comes on in the ninth and immediately gets Victor Mesa, Jr. to fly out softly to right field. An infield single for Cedric Mullins followed and then Woodruff struck out Jorge Mateo.
Yandy Díaz stepped to the plate with two outs, just as he did in Game 2, but the stakes were levels lower this time around. With a full count, Díaz got the Rays on the board with a double to left-center field that he (and the Brewers outfielders) thought was gone. Mullins came around to score easily.
On the very next pitch, Jonathan Aranda grounded out to second base and it was all over.
The Brewers are one win away from the title!
Final score: Brewers 10, Rays 1
Brandon Woodruff, who hasn’t pitched in a game since July 4, is in to pitch the ninth inning.
He is the longest-tenured Brewers player, and the erstwhile ace. But in recent years, he’s been plagued by injury. He hasn’t thrown more than 67 innings in a season since 2022.
The decision to put him on the World Series roster came down to the last minute, and it’s hard to imagine a more perfect opportunity to include him in this postseason run than this cushy final frame.
Brewers 10, Rays 0
Brice Turang collected his third hit of the game with a double into the left field corner to lead of the top of the ninth inning.
Turang is one of four Brewers – along with Jackson Chourio, Christian Yelich and William Contreras – who have more hits than the entire Rays team.
Rays pitcher Steven Matz worked around the trouble though and sends Game 3 to the bottom of the ninth.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
In a visceral manifestation of the Brewers’ relentless commitment to playing hard, Sal Frelick made a diving catch to keep the Rays at just one hit through eight innings.
It was a nifty play for the 2024 Gold Glove-winner. But even more than that, it was a stunning testament to how hard these Brewers play.
Frelick spent time on the injured list this year for a torn labrum that remains … well, torn. And probably pretty uncomfortable after hitting the artificial turf of the Trop.
Into the ninth inning we go.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
Finally, Milwaukee appears to have taken their foot off the gas, seemingly content to coast to victory and a commanding 3-0 lead in the World Series.
No team has ever rallied from 3-0 down to win in the Fall Classic. In fact, no team has even managed for force a Game 6 in the World Series after going down three game to none.
The Rays have six more outs until they’re facing that scenario.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
The goal for the Brewers now is to get their most trusted, and oft-relied upon, relievers an extra day of rest by keeping them out of the game.
The goal for the Rays should be to force Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy to dip into his circle of trust.
The Rays are failing at that goal now, too, along with the “winning a baseball game” goal. Gasser is gone, but the Rays are still retired in order in the seventh.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
Garrett Cleavinger came on to pitch the seventh inning for the Rays, and proceeded to sit the Brewers down in order.
Even more impressively, Cleavinger managed to strike out Brewers’ lead-off man Jackson Chourio, who had been 4-for-4 in the game to that point.
Barring a historic comeback, the Brewers are poised to push the Rays to the brink of elimination.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
The Rays lead off the sixth with a walk from Victor Mesa, Jr.
Then Nick Fortes grounds into a double play, Taylor Walls grounds out, and somehow Robert Gasser has still faced the minimum in this lopsided clinic being put on by the Brewers.
Gasser is first Brewers pitcher to get even a single out in the sixth inning this whole postseason, and he completes the frame easily.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
The Brewers started the 6th inning with 13 hits to the Rays’ one, and Milwaukee went looking for more.
William Contreras and Brice Turang got back-to-back infield hits and the Brewers once again had ducks on the pond.
Cole Sulser managed to escape the inning unscathed, but the Brewers are putting on a textbook example of their “small-ball” style that has confounded opponents all season.
Remarkably, the Brewers have put up a 10-spot through six innings without the benefit of a home run.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
It is highly unlikely that the Rays will come back in this game. And they definitely will not come back in this game if they continue to go down in order.
Ironically, Tampa still has the three hardest-hit balls of the game – including Yandy Díaz’s 115.5 mph single, which is the hardest hit ball of the postseason.
Baseball is weird sometimes!
Brewers 10, Rays 0
New pitcher, same result for the Brewers – and we’ve got history in the World Series.
David Hamilton smacked a single into center field off Cole Sulser to score Sal Frelick.
Jackson Chourio, who is just 22, then came up and collected his second hit of the inning, a double to plate Hamilton from first base. Next, Jake Bauers mercifully hit a flyout to end the inning.
But the damage was done – seven consecutive two-out hits from the Brewers to put this game out of reach, a World Series record.
Milwaukee’s eight runs in the inning are two more than the Rays have scored so far in the entire series. It’s also a World Series record for most runs in an inning scored by a team with two outs.
Score: Brewers 10, Rays 0
Rays third baseman Junior Caminero made a nice leaping catch to rob David Hamilton of a hit to start the fifth inning.
It was a good thing, too, because Jackson Chourio came up next and collected his third hit of the game.
Jake Bauers hit a flyout, then Christian Yelich worked Freddy Peralta for a walk, and the Brewers suddenly had a chance to break the game wide open.
The Brewers’ postseason hero William Contreras was up next and hit a chopper to third base, but Yelich beat the throw from a spinning Caminero at second, setting up a bases loaded situation.
That was the end of the line for Freddy Peralta, who was replaced by Cam Booser to face Brice Turang.
Turang then smashed a ball right back through the box and off the glove of Taylor Walls. Chourio and Yelich scored as the ball trickled into center field.
That started the hit parade.
The Brewers kept the pressure on with a single from Garrett Mitchell and a double from Cooper Pratt to plate three more runs and suddenly this game is out of hand.
Sal Frelick then hit a double into the left field corner to bring Pratt in with yet another run.
Six two-out runs have crossed for the Brewers in the inning, and they’re still batting as the Rays make another pitching change.
Score: Brewers 8, Rays 0
At the end of this series, the final party will begin. It will be the last in a long line of them.
Every major US sport has multi-round postseason schedules, but none of them party like MLB teams. Locker room celebrations in the NFL tend to be subdued until the Super Bowl, and since hockey players are famously superstitious, popping bottles early is practically verboten in the NHL; the Stanley Cup is all that really matters.
Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager Tom McLaughlin has spent over 40 years with the Red Sox, and he says he’s lost track of how many celebrations he’s been involved in, but he counts them in the dozens. He told CNN Sports it was “pretty tame” when he started in the ‘80s, when the postseason was much shorter, but the back end of the season now can feel like one enormous bender for the most successful teams.
Clinched a playoff spot? Party.
Successfully navigate the wildcard round? Let’s get wild.
Made it through the Divisional Round? Get another round in.
Won the Championship Series? We’re going on a spree.
By the time a baseball club wins the World Series, let’s just say that the celebration will not be their first rodeo. Everyone will have had plenty of practice.
Read more here on why baseball teams party all the time, party all the time, party all the time in October.
William Contreras had the most challenges among catchers in the regular season and he flexes that propensity again to help Robert Gasser complete another 1-2-3 inning.
While we’re at it, the Brewers have been calling Contreras “Bill.” That’s all I’ve got to make this post interesting. Rays, help me out!
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Freddy Peralta performed a rare feat in the 4th inning – he retired the Brewers in order.
Peralta struck out Garrett Mitchell and Cooper Pratt, which injected some much-needed life into the crowd in St. Pete.
A groundout from Sal Frelick ended the inning in quick fashion, but the Rays need to find a way to break up the rhythm of Brewers’ starter Robert Gasser and do it quickly.
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Through three the Rays are making solid contact off Robert Gasser – two of the outs in that frame were over 100 mph off the bat – but he’s managed to face the minimum and given up just a single hit, back in the first.
In a word: he’s cruising, with credit to the Brewers defense, which has been airtight so far tonight.
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
Another inning, another rally for the Brewers.
After a quick out, Jackson Chourio laced another single – his second of the game already – and Jake Bauers drew a walk, and Freddy Peralta was right back in the soup.
This time, they cashed in as Christian Yelich hit his second bloop single of the game to bring Chourio in for the first run of the game.
On the very next pitch, William Contreras dropped a single into right field where Victor Mesa, Jr. struggled to field it cleanly, allowing Bauers to score.
Peralta escaped the inning without any further damage, but the Rays once again find themselves in the unenviable position of playing catch-up against the Brewers.
Score: Brewers 2, Rays 0
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