Rays Stay Alive, Force Game Five
Tampa Bay beat Milwaukee 4-3 in 12 innings to avoid a World Series sweep.
By Leila Reynolds ·
The Tampa Bay Rays are still playing. Milwaukee's chance at a clean sweep ended Tuesday night, when the Rays won 4-3 in 12 innings at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The loss dropped the Brewers to 3-1 in the best-of-seven World Series.
Milwaukee had taken the first two games at American Family Field, then won Game Three after the series shifted to Florida. The Rays answered Tuesday with a rally in the late innings to stop an eight-game winning run by the Brewers.
Game Five goes Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern at Tropicana Field. Jacob Misiorowski, a National League Cy Young candidate, is scheduled to start for Milwaukee.
Tampa Bay is now the fifth of 26 teams in World Series history to win Game Four after falling behind 3-0. The previous four all lost Game Five. Across all postseason best-of-seven series, 43 teams have trailed 3-0; only the Boston Red Sox recovered to beat the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series.
The Brewers had been one win away from becoming the second club to sweep both a league championship series and the World Series in the same postseason.
