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\"DefaultST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Jonny DeLuca and pinch-hitter Ben Williamson singled home runs in a stunning 12th-inning rally, and the Tampa Bay Rays staved off World Series elimination with a 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night that forced Game 5.<\/p>\n

Cooper Pratt hit a tiebreaking home run off Ian Seymour in the top of the 12th as Milwaukee neared a sweep and its first World Series title.<\/p>\n

Related video above: Brewers fans break merchandise sales records during World Series<\/p>\n

But the Rays, also seeking their first championship, rallied in the bottom half after a throwing error by third baseman Joey Ortiz on Junior Caminero’s leadoff grounder against reliever Antonio Senzatela.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks singled off Shane Drohan, who relieved in his first appearance since Oct. 15, and DeLuca’s single to center drove in pinch-runner Cedric Mullins to tie the score at 3.<\/p>\n

Chandler Simpson’s single loaded the bases and Milwaukee employed a five-man infield with the infield in.<\/p>\n

Williamson, who had been 1 for 15 in the postseason, hit a chopper over first baseman Jake Bauers and into right field.<\/p>\n

Game 5 will be Wednesday night at Tropicana Field.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay became just the fifth of 26 teams that fell behind 3-0 in the World Series to win Game 4. The previous four lost Game 5.<\/p>\n

Of 43 teams to trail 3-0 in any best-of-seven postseason matchup, the only one that rebounded to win was the Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Jonny DeLuca and pinch-hitter Ben Williamson singled home runs in a stunning 12th-inning rally,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[171859,96746,3816,68616,77317,48422,48421,171858,117484,97618,90635,84499,35702,81664,3817,171860,110,135,1526,3815,137,136,8125,78290],"class_list":["post-440260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-12th-inning","tag-antonio-senzatela","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-game-5","tag-ian-seymour","tag-joey-ortiz","tag-jonny-deluca","tag-junior-caminero","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-shane-drohan","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tropicana-field","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440260","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=440260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}