{"id":948286,"date":"2026-10-27T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948286\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:28:09","slug":"rays-put-on-the-brink-of-world-series-flop-by-brewers-historic-8-run-2-out-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948286\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays put on the brink of World Series flop by Brewers&#8217; historic 8-run, 2-out inning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 5 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Taylor Walls stabbed at Brice Turang&#8217;s sharp grounder and felt it glance off his glove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;Knife in the chest,&#8221; the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Tampa Bay&#8217;s first World Series game at Tropicana Field in 18 years turned into a record-setter for Brewers batters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Milwaukee became the first team to score eight runs with two outs in a World Series inning, routing the Rays 10-1 on Monday night to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Turang&#8217;s two-run single was the second of a postseason-record seven straight two-out hits against starter Freddy Peralta and relievers Cam Booser and Cole Sulser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Milwaukee turned a 2-0 lead into a 7-0 advantage with hits on three straight pitches by Turang, Garrett Mitchell and Cooper Pratt. The Brewers went on to score eight runs in a 17-pitch span to open a 10-run advantage. Jackson Chourio had a single and a double in the inning, part of his four-hit night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;Worst feeling in the world, feeling like you let your team down,&#8221; a downcast Booser said in the quiet Tampa Bay clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Among 25 previous teams that fell behind 3-0 in a World Series, 21 were swept and four lost in five games. Of 43 teams to trail 3-0 in any best-of-seven postseason matchup, only the Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series rebounded to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of that chip and a chair mentality,&#8221; Rays manager Kevin Cash said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a seat at the table. We&#8217;ve got to do something with the chip. Obviously the only thing we can do is win tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Coming off a pair of one-run wins at American Family Field, the Brewers took a 2-0 lead in the third when Christian Yelich and William Contreras hit opposite-field, one-out RBI singles on consecutive pitches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;They were very disciplined at the plate,&#8221; Peralta said. &#8220;Just tried to hit the ball the other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Chourio singled with one out in the fifth and Christian Yelich walked with two outs. Contreras grounded to third and Junior Caminero threw to second as umpire Dan Bellino signaled a forceout. But the call was reversed in the New York replay operations center by umpire Alfonso Marquez, giving Contreras an infield single that loaded the bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Caminero may have had a better chance of throwing out Contreras at first base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;I knew the speed at first base wasn&#8217;t necessarily the best in that situation,&#8221; Caminero said through a translator. &#8220;So going into the moment, once I got the groundball I was going to second base all the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Booser relieved and Turang&#8217;s 106 mph one-hopper hit the dirt just past the infield grass, bounced off Walls&#8217; glove and into short center field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to have that one back. Those are plays that you&#8217;d like to make, that you expect to make even though they may be on the tougher end,&#8221; Walls said. &#8220;That was pretty much the turning point in the game there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Walls dropped to a knee and held out his glove at shoulder level trying to make what would have been an excellent stop, then tumbled as the ball bounced past him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;You just try to get your eyes as close to where the ball is going to be, the height of the hop,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ideally, I guess if you want to talk about fractions, if you can get your glove behind the ball and work more backwards you have a better chance to make the play than if you&#8217;re slightly above it having to kind of work down a little bit, which is where I kind of felt I was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Mitchell grounded an opposite-field RBI single through the shortstop hole vacated with Walls shifted toward second for the left-handed batter. Pratt followed with a smash off the glove of a diving Caminero that rolled into the left-field corner for a two-run double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Sal Frelick sliced an opposite-field double that hit the wall on a hop in the left-field corner, scoring Pratt and chasing Booser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">David Hamilton greeted Sulser by lining a shoulder-high fastball into center for a run-scoring single and a 9-0 lead. Chourio then lofted an opposite-field RBI double that hit just in front of the warning track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Boston set the previous Series high of seven runs with two outs in the fifth inning of the 2007 opener against Colorado, a feat matched three years later by San Francisco in the eighth inning of Game 2 against Texas, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Los Angeles Dodgers were the only prior team with eight two-out runs in any postseason inning, scoring 10 with two outs in the first inning of Game 3 against Atlanta in the 2020 NL Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Griffin Jax said he&#8217;ll put the Series deficit out of his mind when he starts Game 4 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;We just got our butts kicked tonight. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s really much else to say,&#8221; Jax explained. &#8220;We&#8217;ll just kind of forget it and try to sleep it off and come back tomorrow ready to fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-948286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}