{"id":212898,"date":"2026-03-31T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:38:06","slug":"brewers-lose-for-first-time-defeated-by-tampa-bay-wtaq-news-talk-97-5-fm-%c2%b7-1360-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212898\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers lose for first time, defeated by Tampa Bay | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM \u00b7 1360 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(LEARFIELD) \u2013 The Milwaukee Brewers suffered their first loss of the season Monday night, falling to the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 at American Family Field in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Young left\u2011hander Kyle Harrison was a bright spot in his Brewers debut, striking out eight and allowing just one run over five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Brewers manager Pat Murphy talked about the outing by Harrison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2499\/files\/2026\/03\/3-30-pat-murphy-on-kyle-harrison.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2499\/files\/2026\/03\/3-30-pat-murphy-on-kyle-harrison.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrison said that he got more comfortable with his pitches as the game progressed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2499\/files\/2026\/03\/3-30-kyle-harrison-got-more-comfortable-with-my-pitches-as-the-game-went-on.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2499\/files\/2026\/03\/3-30-kyle-harrison-got-more-comfortable-with-my-pitches-as-the-game-went-on.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The game was tied in the ninth when closer Trevor Megill issued a two\u2011out walk, and Tampa Bay cashed in on a go\u2011ahead RBI double by Nick Fortes.<\/p>\n<p>William Contreras accounted for both Milwaukee runs with a two\u2011run homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras\u2019 hit was 1 of just 6 the Brewers got off of Tampa starting pitcher Nick Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy discussed what made Martinez effective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2499\/files\/2026\/03\/3-30-pat-murphy-on-the-way-martinez-pitch-for-the-rays.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2499\/files\/2026\/03\/3-30-pat-murphy-on-the-way-martinez-pitch-for-the-rays.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2 teams meet again tonight at American Family Field with Brandon Woodruff making his season debut on the mound for the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays will counter withShane McClanahan.<\/p>\n<p>The game can be heard beginning with the pre-game show at 6:05 on 97.5 WTAQ.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt headed toward a big deal:\u00a0 The Brewers are reportedly locking up one of their prospects.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple outlets, Milwaukee will sign shortstop prospect Cooper Pratt to an eight-year, $50.75 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt is MLB\u2019s number 62 ranked prospect, according to MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(LEARFIELD) \u2013 The Milwaukee Brewers suffered their first loss of the season Monday night, falling to the Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-212898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}