Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang sparked Milwaukee’s eight-run fifth inning, and the Brewers routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 on Monday night to move within one victory of their first World Series title.
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Brewers → spark → title
Rookie left-hander Robert Gasser pitched one-hit ball and faced the minimum through six innings as Milwaukee rolled to a 3-0 lead in the World Series.
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Milwaukee → pitch → Series
Game 4 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, where many Brewers fans showed up Monday and cheered from behind the visitors’ dugout.
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fans → show → dugout
Gasser allowed a line-drive single to Yandy Díaz leading off the bottom of the first and then retired 14 straight before Victor Mesa Jr walked to start the Tampa Bay sixth.
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Jr → allow → sixth
With the help of a caught stealing and a double play, Gasser became the first starter to face the minimum 18 batters through six innings of a World Series game since Arizona’s Curt Schilling in 2001 – and the first left-hander to do it since Sandy Koufax for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965.
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Gasser → catch → 1965
Chourio went 4-for-5, William Contreras was 3-for-5 and Milwaukee racked up 16 hits off “Fastball Freddy” Peralta and five relievers to win their eighth straight postseason game and fourth in a row on the road.
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Milwaukee → go → road
Of the 43 previous major league teams to fall behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven postseason series, only the 2004 Boston Red Sox rallied to win four straight when they beat the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.
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they → fall → Series
Gasser became the first starter for Milwaukee to get an out in the sixth inning this postseason.
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Gasser → become → inning
He has allowed one run in 15 innings over three starts, all on the road.
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He → allow → road
Peralta, the MVP of the ALCS against Cleveland, ran out of gas against the Brewers.
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Peralta → run → Brewers
He was charged with five runs and seven hits in four and two-thirds innings against his former team.
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He → charge → team
After a pair of tense, down-to-the-final-pitch, one-run games in Milwaukee, the Brewers put this one out of reach in the fifth with a postseason-record seven straight hits with two outs.
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Brewers → put → outs
Chourio began the rally with a one-out single and then stole second with two outs.
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Chourio → begin → outs
Christian Yelich walked, and Peralta exited after Contreras’ infield single loaded the bases.
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single → walk → bases
The inning appeared to end when third baseman Junior Caminero fielded Contreras’ bouncer and threw to second base for a forceout.
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Caminero → appear → forceout
But the call at second was overturned after a replay review, and Cam Booser entered.
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Booser → overturn → review
Turang ripped a liner that shortstop Taylor Walls couldn’t short-hop.
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Walls → rip → that
It bounced off his glove and rolled into shallow center, allowing two runs to score.
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runs → bounce → center
Garrett Mitchell followed with an RBI single, Cooper Pratt grounded a two-run double down the left-field line and Sal Frelick lined a run-scoring double to make it 8-0.
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it → follow → double
Cole Sulser replaced Booser and allowed an RBI single to David Hamilton and an RBI double to Chourio, who became the second-youngest player with four hits and a stolen base in a World Series game behind Ty Cobb in 1908.
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who → replace → 1908
Of the 25 previous teams who took a 3-0 lead in the World Series, 21 swept and four won in five games.
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four → take → games
Originally the Seattle Pilots for one season in 1969, the franchise moved to Milwaukee and was renamed the Brewers in 1970.
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franchise → move → 1970
Their only other trip to the World Series came as an AL team and ended with a loss to St Louis in Game 7 in 1982.
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trip → come → 1982
Led by 67-year-old manager Pat Murphy, the Brewers need just one more win to finally end their championship drought.
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Brewers → lead → drought
The Rays led the AL with 98 wins in the regular season, swept the Yankees in three games in the ALDS and beat the Guardians in six games in the ALCS.
But they made uncharacteristic mistakes on the bases and defensively in the first two games, and completely unraveled at home.
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they → lead → home
Tampa Bay also have never won a World Series in 29 seasons.
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Bay → win → seasons
The Rays lost to the Phillies in five games in 2008 and to the Dodgers in six games in 2020.
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Rays → lose → 2020
Wearing their white Devil Rays uniforms, they were eager to play in front of their home fans at the quirky, cavernous Trop, which had its roof shredded by Hurricane Milton in October 2024 and needed major renovations.
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roof → wear → renovations
But their cowbell-ringing, towel-waving fans among a sellout crowd of 40,388 couldn’t lift them past the surging Brewers.
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fans → ring → Brewers
The Brewers led the majors with 103 wins, beat the Padres in four games in the NLDS and swept the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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Brewers → lead → NLCS
With a win in Game 4, they would become the first team to sweep an LCS and World Series since the 1976 Cincinnati Reds.
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they → become → Reds
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