The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in Game 3 of the World Series at Tropicana Field on October 26, taking a three games to none lead. An eight run fifth inning, built on a postseason record seven consecutive hits, turned a 2-0 game into a rout and moved Milwaukee within one win of the first championship in franchise history.
The Brewers are 10-1 this postseason. Jackson Chourio went 4 for 5 with an RBI double and a stolen base, Robert Gasser threw six shutout innings of one hit ball, and Tampa Bay now faces a deficit no team has ever overcome in a World Series. Game 4 is Tuesday night in St. Petersburg, with Milwaukee able to complete the sweep.
World Series Game 3: The Fifth Inning
The game turned on a replay review. With two outs in the fifth, Christian Yelich was initially called out at second on a relay from third baseman Junior Caminero, a call that would have ended the inning. Milwaukee challenged, the call was overturned, the bases stayed loaded, and the next six Brewers batters reached base against relievers Cam Booser and Cole Sulser. Brice Turang drove in two with a single that glanced off shortstop Taylor Walls, Garrett Mitchell added an RBI single, Cooper Pratt bounced a two run double, Sal Frelick delivered an RBI double, David Hamilton singled in a run, and Chourio capped the inning with an RBI double.
The Brewers are the first team in MLB history to have 7 consecutive batters get a hit in a postseason game.
That was OptaSTATS, marking the milestone as the inning unfolded. All eight runs scored with two outs. Milwaukee had taken its 2-0 lead in the third, when Chourio singled, Jake Bauers walked, and Yelich and William Contreras delivered RBI singles off Freddy Peralta, the former Brewers ace starting against his old club. Peralta was charged with five runs in 4 and 2/3 innings. Tampa Bay’s only run came in the ninth, on a Yandy Díaz double after a soft infield single, against Brandon Woodruff, pitching in a game for the first time since July 4 after a shoulder injury.
Chourio And Gasser Own The Record Lines
Chourio’s night rewrote two kinds of history. At 22, he is the youngest player to record a four hit game in the World Series since Joe Garagiola of the Cardinals in 1946, according to ESPN’s Jorge Castillo. Across the first three games he is 8 for 14 with four runs scored and three steals, and his eight hits are the second most by any player in the first three games of a single World Series, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com. Contreras added three hits as Milwaukee collected 16 in all.
Gasser’s line was quieter and just as rare: six innings, one hit, one walk, three strikeouts, facing the minimum after Díaz led off the first with a single. He is the first left hander to face the minimum through six frames in a World Series game since Sandy Koufax in 1965. Across three postseason outings he has allowed one run on seven hits in 15 innings, a run that has steadied a rotation that entered October with questions.
The Series So Far, And Game 4
The finals rule on this desk is simple: every game of a championship series gets covered. Milwaukee opened the series at home with a 3-2 win in Game 1 on October 23 and a 5-4 win in Game 2 on October 24, twice holding off Tampa Bay late. Game 3 was the first game in St. Petersburg, and it was the first one that was not close, which is why the series state is now stark: the Rays must win four straight, something no club has done from 3-0 down in a World Series.
Game 4 goes Tuesday at Tropicana Field, first pitch at 8 p.m. ET on FOX. A Milwaukee win ends a championship wait that stretches back to the franchise’s founding and completes a 10-1 postseason run through the Dodgers, the Padres and the Rays. A Tampa Bay win extends the series to a Game 5 on Wednesday and gives the Rays one more night to find the offence that scored once in nine innings on Monday. Either way, the next recap on this desk will carry the full series state, the way the finals rule requires.
