Brewers Win the World Series: Milwaukee Beats Tampa Bay 4-1 in Game 5 for the First Title in Franchise History
It is final in St. Petersburg: the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to win the first World Series championship in franchise history, closing the series 4-1 behind Jacob Misiorowski's 5 2/3 scoreless innings.
The wait is over in Milwaukee. The Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 of the World Series at Tropicana Field on Wednesday night, winning the first championship in franchise history and closing the series four games to one.
Milwaukee built the same lead this desk's live file carried in the bottom of the ninth — one run in the second, one in the fifth and two in the sixth for 4-0 — and Tampa Bay's only answer came in the ninth, a single run that made the final 4-1. The Brewers outhit the Rays 8-4, and Milwaukee finished its October run at 11-2.
Jacob Misiorowski started and won Games 1 and 5. In the clincher he threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings of two-hit ball before right calf cramps — not the apparent leg injury the live reports feared — ended his night with a 4-0 lead and a standing ovation from the Brewers fans behind the Milwaukee dugout, according to the Associated Press report carried by NBC Sports.
Rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt added two more hits and two RBIs, setting a World Series rookie record with six straight hits before his sixth-inning sacrifice fly, and Jackson Chourio set a five-game Series record with 11 hits. The title comes in the franchise's 58th season — it began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 — and erases its only previous World Series memory, the 1982 Game 7 loss to St. Louis.
