The Rays Brewers Game 4 score finished Tampa Bay Rays 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3 in 12 innings on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. Tampa Bay scored twice in the bottom of the twelfth inning to walk off the Brewers and stay alive in the World Series, answering a go ahead home run by Cooper Pratt in the top of the inning. Milwaukee still leads the series 3-1, and Game 5 goes Wednesday night at Tropicana Field with the Brewers holding a second chance to close out their first championship.
The night began with ceremony and pressure in equal measure. Ne-Yo performed the national anthem and Evan Longoria threw the ceremonial first pitch, in front of a home crowd that understood the math completely: lose, and the season ends with Milwaukee celebrating on Tampa Bay’s field. Griffin Jax started for the Rays and Dustin May started for the Brewers, and for nine innings and deep into extras, neither side would give the game away.
Rays Brewers Game 4 score: how the runs traded places
Tampa Bay opened the scoring in the bottom of the second inning, when Jonny DeLuca scored on an RBI double by Chandler Simpson. Milwaukee tied the game in the top of the fourth, as Sal Frelick singled and Cooper Pratt drove him in with an RBI double. The Rays retook the lead in the bottom of the fourth on a fielder’s choice by DeLuca that scored Junior Caminero, and David Hamilton tied it again for Milwaukee in the top of the fifth with a home run. From there the game locked at 2-2 through the ninth, the tenth and the eleventh.
Pratt was at the centre of everything for Milwaukee. The young shortstop finished with four hits, drove in the Brewers’ first run, and in the top of the twelfth he hit a home run off Ian Seymour to put Milwaukee ahead 3-2, three outs from a sweep and a title. It was the kind of swing that ends seasons. Instead it started the loudest half inning of Tampa Bay’s year.
In the top of the twelfth inning, Cooper Pratt hit a home run off Ian Seymour to break a tie for the Brewers to take the lead at 3-2.
The bottom of the twelfth
Tampa Bay answered with two runs in the bottom of the twelfth to win 4-3, turning elimination into a walk off celebration and handing Milwaukee its first loss of the series. The final linescore tells the shape of the night: Tampa Bay four runs on nine hits, Milwaukee three runs on eight hits, twelve innings, and a home team that refused the script written for it in the top half of the inning. The Rays, who led the American League with 98 wins and swept the Yankees before beating Cleveland in six, finally played a World Series game in St. Petersburg that matched their season.
Where the series stands now
The full series state matters, because the Finals rule on this desk is that every game gets its coverage. Milwaukee won Game 1 at home 3-2, rallied from a four run first inning deficit to win Game 2 5-4, and routed Tampa Bay 10-1 in Game 3 behind an eight run inning, with Jackson Chourio becoming the youngest player with a four hit World Series game since Joe Garagiola in 1946. Game 4 is Tampa Bay’s first win of the series, and it changes the pressure without changing the math: the Brewers need one win, the Rays need three straight.
Game 5 is scheduled for Wednesday, October 28 at 8 p.m. Eastern at Tropicana Field, again on FOX in the United States and Sportsnet in Canada. If Tampa Bay wins again, the series returns to Milwaukee for Game 6 on October 30. Both franchises are still chasing the first World Series title in their history, and both payrolls rank in the bottom half of the league, the lowest pairing in a World Series since 1991. Tuesday night proved the gap between them is one swing wide, in either direction, and Wednesday now carries a simple promise: Milwaukee tries to finish the job a second time, and Tampa Bay tries to make a miracle feel like a plan.
