{"id":897475,"date":"2026-10-28T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897475\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:44:11","slug":"rays-battle-from-brink-in-12th-inning-to-stun-brewers-and-stave-off-world-series-sweep-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897475\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays battle from brink in 12th inning to stun Brewers and stave off World Series sweep | World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonny DeLuca and pinch-hitter Ben Williamson hits RBIs 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<\/a> 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 for his fourth hit of the game to make it 3-2 to the Brewers as Milwaukee neared a sweep and their first World Series<\/a> title.<\/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\u2019s leadoff grounder against reliever Antonio Senzatela.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks singled off Shane Drohan, who relieved in his first appearance since 15 October, and DeLuca\u2019s single to center drove in pinch-runner Cedric Mullins to tie the score at 3-3.<\/p>\n

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Schedule<\/p>\n

Best-of-seven series. All times US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).<\/p>\n

Fri 23 Oct Game 1: Milwaukee 3, Tampa Bay 2<\/a>
Sat 24 Oct Game 2: Milwaukee 5, Tampa Bay 4<\/a>
Mon 26 Oct Game 3: Milwaukee 10, Tampa Bay 1<\/a>
Tue 27 Oct Game 4: Tampa Bay 4, Milwaukee 3 (12 innings)<\/a>
Wed 28 Oct Game 5: Milwaukee at Tampa Bay, 8pm (Fox)
Fri 30 Oct Game 6: Tampa Bay at Milwaukee, 8pm* (Fox)
Sat 31 Oct Game 7: Tampa Bay at Milwaukee, 8pm* (Fox)<\/p>\n

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In the US, all World Series games will air on Fox and Fox Deportes, with streaming available through Fox One. In the UK, the series will be carried by TNT Sports. In Australia, fans can watch on ESPN, with streaming available through Disney+ and Kayo Sports.<\/p>\n

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Chandler Simpson\u2019s single loaded the bases and Milwaukee employed a five-man infield.<\/p>\n

Williamson, who had been 1 for 15 in the postseason, hit a chopper over first baseman Jake Bauers and into right field to clinch the 4-3 win for the Rays.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of fight in us. We\u2019re never going to shy away,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cWe were going to keep fighting until the end \u2013 the last inning, the last out, the last play, the last pitch. We were going to keep fighting. That\u2019s what we did tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Game 5 in the best-of-seven matchup is Wednesday night at Tropicana Field, with NL Cy Young Award favorite Jacob Misiorowski scheduled to start for the Brewers. Rays manager Kevin Cash said he hadn\u2019t decided on a starter yet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay are just the fifth of 26 teams to have fallen behind 3-0 in the World Series and then come back 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 who rebounded to win was the Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just shows the resiliency of this group,\u201d Williamson said. \u201cWe continue to fight, and that\u2019s been the motto this series and this full season, is just fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caminero was replaced by Mullins at third base and hobbled off the field with an ailing left foot. But the slugger said he\u2019ll definitely play Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll play tomorrow on one leg. I\u2019ll make sure of it,\u201d Cash said.<\/p>\n

Brewers infielder David Hamilton attempts to tag Rays runner Junior Caminero during the fourth inning of Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night. Photograph: Mike Stobe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay ended an eight-game winning streak by the Brewers, who were bidding to become only the second team to sweep a League Championship Series and the World Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to win a championship, you\u2019ve got to survive some hard things,\u201d Milwaukee captain Christian Yelich said. \u201cLike I said earlier, it\u2019s supposed to be hard. It\u2019s supposed to test you. We understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Hamilton also homered for the Brewers. Jackson Chourio had a single and double, improving to 10 for 20 in the Series.<\/p>\n

Pratt, a 22-year-old rookie whose go-ahead hit sparked the Brewers to a 5-4 win in Game 2, drove a slider into the left-field seats against Seymour. Pratt had tied the score at 1 with an RBI double in the second.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee players bounded out of the dugout to greet Pratt, who debuted in June and became the first rookie to hit an extra-inning homer in the World Series.<\/p>\n

Seymour had allowed Frelick\u2019s tying homer in Game 2.<\/p>\n

Rays outfielder Jonny DeLuca scores a run in the second inning against the Brewers during Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field. Photograph: Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Milwaukee fans in the crowd of 40,514, many waving yellow towels and some wearing cheeseheads, brought a Badger State feel to Tropicana Field.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay returned to their white home jerseys, a day after playing in Devil Rays throwbacks.<\/p>\n

Simpson hit an RBI double off starter Dustin May in the second, but Milwaukee tied the score in the fourth against Griffin Jax when Frelick hit a two-out single and came around on Pratt\u2019s double.<\/p>\n

Caminero singled leading off the bottom half to chase May and advanced on a groundout. DeLuca hit a hard grounder to Hamilton and Caminero twisted toward the grass to avoid the third baseman\u2019s tag, then came home when Hamilton bounced his throw past Bauers for an error.<\/p>\n

Hamilton, Milwaukee\u2019s No 9 hitter, drove an 0-2 fastball at the letters from Jax into the right-field seats for his second home run of the postseason \u2013 half his regular-season total and just his second since 6 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonny DeLuca and pinch-hitter Ben Williamson hits RBIs in a stunning 12th-inning rally, and the Tampa Bay Rays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-897475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}