Brewers Rout Rays 10-0 in World Series Game 3 Behind an Eight-Run Fifth Inning
Milwaukee scored eight runs with two outs in the fifth inning — a World Series first — and Robert Gasser faced the minimum through six as the Brewers beat Tampa Bay 10-0 at Tropicana Field on Monday night to take a 3-0 series lead, one win from the first championship in franchise history.
The Milwaukee Brewers are one win from a championship. Milwaukee routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-0 in Game 3 of the World Series at Tropicana Field on Monday night, outhitting Tampa Bay 16-2 and taking a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, according to the Sportradar score record and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's live coverage.
The game broke open in a fifth inning that made World Series history. With two outs and Milwaukee leading 2-0, the Brewers scored eight runs — the first time a team has ever scored eight runs with two outs in a World Series inning, the Journal Sentinel reported. Brice Turang's two-run single made it 4-0, Garrett Mitchell singled home another, Cooper Pratt doubled in two, Sal Frelick doubled in one, and after reliever Cam Booser left without recording an out, David Hamilton and Jackson Chourio added run-scoring hits off Cole Sulser to finish the inning at 10-0.
Milwaukee starter Robert Gasser was as dominant as the score suggests. He faced the minimum through six innings — allowing a leadoff single in the first, erased on a caught stealing, and a sixth-inning walk, erased on a double play — and had retired 14 straight at one point on just 62 pitches through five. Chourio finished with four hits and a stolen base, the first player to do that in a World Series game since Roberto Alomar in 1993 and, at his age, the youngest with a four-hit World Series game since Joe Garagiola in 1946, according to figures MLB passed along during the game.
Milwaukee scored its first two runs in the third on RBI singles by Christian Yelich and William Contreras off former Brewer Freddy Peralta, who started for Tampa Bay. The 10-0 margin is not among the very largest in World Series history — the record remains the Yankees' 18-4 win in 1936, USA TODAY noted — but the shape of it, a tight series (3-2 and 5-4 in Milwaukee) suddenly blown open, leaves Tampa Bay needing four straight wins. Game 4 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, with Milwaukee able to clinch the first title in franchise history.
