Brewers Rout Rays 10-1 to Take 3-0 World Series Lead
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 on Monday night, and now they lead the World Series 3-0. The Guardian reports that Milwaukee is one win away from its first championship. The series is best-of-seven, so the first team to four wins takes the title.
The game was played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. Both teams came into the Fall Classic, as the World Series is often called, still looking for their first title as a franchise. Milwaukee had already won Game 2 on Saturday, 5-4, after coming back from a 4-0 deficit.
The night belonged to the bats in the fifth inning. Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang got things started, and Milwaukee scored eight runs in that single inning. Chourio finished the night 4 for 5 at the plate. William Contreras went 3 for 5. Milwaukee collected 16 hits in all, off Freddy Peralta and five relief pitchers.
The pitching gets a big share of the credit too. Robert Gasser, a rookie left-hander, allowed only one hit through six innings. That hit was a leadoff single by Yandy Diaz in the first. After that, Gasser retired 14 hitters in a row before a walk to Victor Mesa Jr. opened the sixth. A left-hander is a pitcher who throws with his left arm, and Gasser has now given Milwaukee a steady start in the biggest games of his young career.
Milwaukee also picked up two more records for the postseason. The Brewers have won eight straight playoff games, and four straight of those came on the road. Winning on the road in October means playing in the other team's ballpark, where the crowd is not on your side.
Now the Rays need to answer. Game 4 is set for Tuesday night back at Tropicana Field. Tampa Bay has to win four games to keep its season alive, and a loss on Tuesday would leave it one defeat from the end of its year.
For Brewers fans, the next step is easy to picture. One more win, and a franchise that has never lifted the trophy would have its first title. For Rays fans, the task is just as clear: find a way to get a run or two early, and make Milwaukee's hitters work for every out. Either way, the scorebook for this series has plenty of pages left to fill.
