{"id":897579,"date":"2026-10-28T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897579\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:54:23","slug":"the-opener-rays-survive-pratt-misiorowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897579\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opener: Rays Survive, Pratt, Misiorowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game 3 was a laugher. Game 4 delivered, and then some. The season isn\u2019t over just yet.<\/p>\n<p>1. Rays force Game 5<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay extended the postseason for at least another game with a thrilling 4-3 win in 12 innings on Tuesday. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ortizjo06.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joey Ortiz<\/a> error opened the door in the final frame. Four straight hits pushed the tying and winning runs across. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willibe03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Williamson<\/a> played the hero, chopping a ground ball over a drawn-in infield for the walk-off hit. Game 5 is tonight at 7 pm CT. \u201cWe have tomorrow,\u201d Rays first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazya01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yandy Diaz<\/a> said (h\/t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/50304811\/world-series-rays-game-4-incredible-rally\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>). \u201cWe have a new day. We have life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2. Pratt nearly the hero<\/p>\n<p>If the Brewers were able to hold on, it would\u2019ve been known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/prattco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooper Pratt<\/a> Game. The rookie shortstop went 4-for-5 on a night where his teammates combined for four hits. The biggest swing was a go-ahead homer in the top of the 12th inning. It was the first playoff home run of his young career. Pratt is now hitting .333 with four extra-base hits in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>3. Misiorowski gets Game 5<\/p>\n<p>Most of the damage in the 12th inning came against lefty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/drohash01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shane Drohan<\/a>, who had only pitched one inning in the playoffs coming into Tuesday. Technically, he\u2019s still stuck on one inning after failing to record an out. The task of recording the final three outs could\u2019ve gone to ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/misioja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob Misiorowski<\/a>, but manager Pat Murphy told reporters he didn\u2019t want to burn him in that spot (h\/t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CyrtHogg\/status\/2115304077340856620\" rel=\"nofollow\">Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>). Misiorowski will start Game 5 tonight. He tossed five innings of one-run ball in a Game 1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Kim Klement Neitzel, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 3 was a laugher. Game 4 delivered, and then some. The season isn\u2019t over just yet. 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-897579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897579","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=897579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}