Brewers Rout Rays Behind Eight-Run Fifth, Lead Series 3-0

Brewers Rout Rays Behind Eight-Run Fifth, Lead Series 3-0

The Milwaukee Brewers routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in Game 3 of the 2026 World Series, seizing a 3-0 series lead and moving within one win of the franchise's first championship. After narrow victories in Games 1 and 2, Milwaukee broke the series open in Tampa Bay with an eight-run fifth inning that reshaped the game and the series outlook.

The inning turned on a bullpen collapse. Rays reliever Cam Booser, who had not allowed a run in six postseason innings entering the night, replaced starter Freddy Peralta in the fifth and gave up four straight hits before being pulled without recording an out. Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy successfully challenged what would have been an inning-ending force-out, and the Brewers kept hitting, stringing together six consecutive hits as part of a club postseason-record seven straight hits in the frame. All eight runs scored without a home run, tying a mark shared by the 1921 New York Giants and the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks for the most runs in a World Series game without one. online beach volleyball betting

Brewers starter Robert Gasser allowed just two baserunners - one hit and one walk - over six scoreless innings, becoming only the second pitcher to face the minimum through six-plus innings in a World Series game, joining Don Larsen's perfect game for the Yankees in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. Milwaukee finished with 16 hits and recorded 26 outs before the Rays scored. Outfielder Jackson Chourio went 4-for-5, becoming the fourth player to collect four hits in a World Series game before the sixth inning and, at 22 years and 229 days old, the youngest to do so since Joe Garagiola's four-hit game for St. Louis in the 1946 World Series. William Contreras and Brice Turang added three hits apiece, and eight of Milwaukee's nine starters reached base safely, with eight different players driving in a run. Tampa Bay managed only three hits, two from designated hitter Yandy Díaz, and finished with just four baserunners overall.

Peralta, who had allowed only two runs across his first three postseason starts, was charged with five earned runs in the decisive fifth. With the series shifting back toward Milwaukee, the Brewers need one more win to clinch their first World Series title in franchise history.