Brewers Rout Rays 10-1 in Game 3 and Move One Win From First World Series Title

The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, and took a 3-0 lead in the series. Milwaukee is now one win from the first World Series championship in franchise history.

Milwaukee led 2-0 after the third inning on RBI singles by Christian Yelich and William Contreras. The Rays then stayed within two runs until the fifth inning, when the game turned in a span of minutes.

Eight runs with two outs in the fifth

With two outs in the top of the fifth and the bases loaded, Brice Turang hit a two-run single off reliever Cam Booser on a 2-2 count. The ball went up the middle and past shortstop Taylor Walls, who got a glove on a hard hop but could not hold it.

That hit started a run of six straight run-scoring hits. Garrett Mitchell, Cooper Pratt and Sal Frelick followed with RBI hits, and David Hamilton and Jackson Chourio added RBI hits of their own. When the inning ended, Milwaukee led 10-0. According to USA Today, it was the first time in World Series history that a team scored eight runs with two outs in an inning, and the first time a team had seven two-out hits in an inning.

Chourio went 4-for-5 with an RBI and a stolen base, and he now has eight hits, four runs scored and three steals in 14 plate appearances in the series. Contreras had three hits. Milwaukee finished with 16 hits, while Tampa Bay had three.

Gasser holds Tampa Bay to one hit through six

Left-hander Robert Gasser threw six shutout innings for the win, allowing one hit and one walk with three strikeouts. According to theScore, he was the first left-hander to face the minimum through six innings in a World Series game since Sandy Koufax in 1965.

Rays starter Freddy Peralta was charged with five runs on seven hits over 4 2/3 innings, with four strikeouts and three walks. Tampa Bay scored its only run in the ninth inning, when Yandy Diaz hit a double to the deepest part of the park.

“Just be ready to lock it in, be ready to go tomorrow. You know, we’re playing a good team. We gotta stay focused and be ready to rock,” Yelich told FOX’s Ken Rosenthal after the game, according to USA Today. Gasser told FOX’s Tom Verducci, according to theScore: “It was a great team win but we’ve got work to do. There’s still one more game to go for us to win.”

Game 4 is Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 8 p.m. ET at Tropicana Field, on FOX. Milwaukee is 10-1 in this postseason. According to theScore, no team has ever won a World Series after facing a 3-0 deficit, and Milwaukee can become the first team to sweep the League Championship Series and the World Series since the League Championship Series became a best-of-seven series in 1985.

Reporting based on coverage by USA Today and theScore.