Milwaukee ends a 57-year wait
It took five games and one more strong night from a rookie. The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Wednesday in St. Petersburg and won the first World Series title the franchise has ever had.
Cooper Pratt, 22, put Milwaukee ahead in the second with an RBI single and added a sacrifice fly in the sixth. In between, he set a World Series rookie record with six straight hits across two games, passing Brian Doyle’s mark from the 1978 Yankees. David Hamilton drove in the second run in the fifth, his fourth straight game with an RBI.
Jacob Misiorowski did the heavy lifting on the mound. He went 5 2/3 scoreless innings on two hits and left with a cramp in his right calf. Trevor Megill covered the last two innings and got Richie Palacios to ground out to end it, after Chandler Simpson’s RBI double in the ninth spoiled the shutout.
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Contreras takes MVP, Tampa Bay falls short again
William Contreras was named World Series MVP after going 8-for-21, a .381 average, with four RBIs. His double off the left-field wall in the sixth sent Christian Yelich home and pushed the lead to three. Yelich, the captain, said the city “has waited a long, long time for this.”
The Brewers went 11-2 across their 13 postseason games. They lost the 1982 World Series to St. Louis in seven, and they had never won one since moving from Seattle in 1970.
For Tampa Bay, it is another near miss. Drew Rasmussen started on three days’ rest and allowed one run in four innings, but the lineup never found a way back. The Rays have now lost the World Series in 2008, 2020 and 2026 without winning one. Manager Kevin Cash said he was “crushed” but proud of what October meant to his group.
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