Brewers Beat Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to Win First World Series Title in Franchise History
The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions for the first time in franchise history. They closed out the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-1 win in Game 5 at Tropicana Field on Wednesday night, taking the series 4-1 and ending a wait that stretched back to the club's first season in 1969 as the Seattle Pilots. Young ace Jacob Misiorowski threw five and two-thirds scoreless innings of two-hit ball before leaving with a calf cramp, and the bullpen held on from there.
Rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt opened the scoring with an RBI single in the second inning, then scored in the fifth on David Hamilton's single to make it 2-0. William Contreras added an RBI double in the sixth and Pratt followed with a sacrifice fly for a 4-0 lead. Pratt set a World Series rookie record with six straight hits during the series, while Jackson Chourio set a five-game Series record with 11 hits. Tampa Bay's only run came in the ninth, when Chandler Simpson's two-out RBI double made it 4-1, before closer Trevor Megill retired Richie Palacios on a grounder to end it.
The title caps a franchise-best season: Milwaukee won 103 regular-season games, then went 11-2 in the playoffs, beating San Diego in the division series and sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers in the championship series. The Brewers' only previous World Series trip, in 1982, ended in a Game 7 loss to St. Louis. For the Rays, who debuted in 1998, it is a third World Series defeat after losses in 2008 and 2020.
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