For four and a half innings, Game 3 of the World Series looked like the pitching duel it had been billed as. Freddy Peralta and Robert Gasser traded outs, Milwaukee held a 2-0 lead, and Tampa Bay was one swing from being back in it.
Then the Brewers batted in the fifth and scored eight runs.
Milwaukee won 10-1 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg on Monday, October 26, 2026, and leads the series 3-0. One more win, in Game 4 on Tuesday night, would give the franchise its first World Series title.
How the fifth happened
The Brewers had opened the scoring in the third, when Christian Yelich drove in Jackson Chourio and William Contreras followed with a hit to make it 2-0.
The fifth began the way big innings usually do, with a loaded-bases at-bat that refused to end. Brice Turang fought off pitches to a 2-2 count and then hit a hard line drive up the middle; it took a bad hop past Rays shortstop Taylor Walls, and two runs scored.
After that nothing stopped. Garrett Mitchell drove in a run for 5-0. Cooper Pratt brought in two more. Sal Frelick added another. Yelich drove in the eighth run of the inning.
By the end of the night every one of the nine Brewers in the lineup had scored, and Milwaukee had become the first team in postseason history to record hits from seven consecutive batters. Tampa Bay got on the board late with its only run.
"Good at-bat after good at-bat"
Yelich described an inning in which nobody tried to end it alone. "It was just good at-bat after good at-bat. Guys staying within themselves," he said.
He gave the credit for starting it to Turang: "I think Brice, that AB that he had was huge."
What is left
No team in World Series history has come back from 3-0 down. The Rays now need to win four straight, beginning Tuesday at home, against a Milwaukee side that has not lost in the series and that just put up its highest-scoring inning of the postseason.
Milwaukee has never won a World Series. Game 4 is Tuesday night in St. Petersburg.
Reporting from WISN and Yahoo Sports.
