Brewers Rout Rays 10-1 at Tropicana Field in Game 3

The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 on Monday night at Tropicana Field, moving one victory closer to their first World Series title. The result gives Milwaukee a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series after the team rallied from a 0-3 deficit. Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday night at the same venue in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The game shifted decisively in the fifth inning when the Brewers scored eight runs, a World Series record for two-out runs in a single frame. The rally began with Jackson Chourio reaching on a single and stealing second base. Christian Yelich followed with a walk. Brice Turang, a native of Corona Santiago, then hit a two-run single after the ball bounced off shortstop Taylor Walls’ glove and rolled into shallow center field. Walls described the play as a knife to the chest. Turang’s hit started a sequence where all eight runs were scored with two outs.

Robert Gasser, a rookie left-handed pitcher, recorded the win. He faced the minimum 18 batters through six innings, allowing one hit and one run. Gasser became the first starter to pitch a complete six-inning game with only 18 batters faced since Curt Schilling in 2001, and the first left-hander to do so since Sandy Koufax in 1965. He allowed a line-drive single to Yandy Diaz in the first inning before retiring 14 consecutive batters. Gasser noted that the support from Brewers fans in the away dugout made the atmosphere feel like home.

Jackson Chourio finished the game 4-for-5 with a double and a stolen base. He is the second-youngest player in World Series history to record four hits and a stolen base in a single game, behind only Ty Cobb in 1908. Manager Pat Murphy has compared Chourio’s discipline to that of basketball legend Kobe Bryant. Chourio said through a translator that he approached each at-bat as if it were his last, trying to find a way on base.

Tampa Bay starter Freddy Peralta pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits and five runs. Rays manager Kevin Cash said Peralta felt good but struggled to locate pitches in and out of the strike zone. The Rays, who led the American League with 98 wins in the regular season, have made uncharacteristic errors on the bases and in the field during the first two games of the series.

Milwaukee has now won eight consecutive postseason games, tying the major league record. The Brewers led the National League with 103 wins and swept the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. A win in Game 4 would make them the first team to sweep both the LCS and the World Series since the 1976 Cincinnati Reds.

The Rays, playing in their white Devil Rays uniforms, faced a sellout crowd of 40,388. The stadium roof was damaged by Hurricane Milton in October 2024 and required major renovations. Tampa Bay has never won a World Series in its 29 seasons of existence. Griffin Jax is scheduled to start for the Rays on Tuesday, while the Brewers have not yet announced their pitcher.