{"id":833522,"date":"2026-10-20T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/833522\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:00:31","slug":"world-series-will-have-first-time-champion-as-rays-set-up-showdown-with-brewers-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/833522\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series will have first-time champion as Rays set up showdown with Brewers | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freddy Peralta threw 5.1 gritty innings, Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz each hit a two-run homer and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> 7-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise\u2019s 29 seasons.<\/p>\n

The Rays will face the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> who, like Tampa Bay, are seeking to win their first-ever World Series. A sellout crowd of 40,230 fans waved yellow-and-blue rally towels, rang cowbells and chanted \u201cLet\u2019s go Rays!\u201d throughout the night at Tropicana Field, which needed major renovations after Hurricane Milton shredded the roof two years ago and caused extensive damage throughout the stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is for you!\u201d Caminero yelled to the crowd after Monday\u2019s game. \u201cLet\u2019s go! I can\u2019t hear you!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rays played their 2025 home games across the bay in Tampa at the New York Yankees\u2019 spring training complex, got new ownership before this season and secured a new stadium deal to be ready in 2029 near the NFL\u2019s Buccaneers. They returned to the Trop to win 55 games in the regular season. Only Milwaukee had that many home wins this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The loss extended Cleveland\u2019s World Series<\/a> championship drought to 78 years. Cleveland led the AL with 41 comeback victories this season, but fatigue clearly caught up with the Guardians as Tampa Bay closed out the series. The Guardians didn\u2019t hold a lead over the final 25 innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more proud of our group,\u201d Guardians manager Stephen Vogt said. \u201cIt just hurts. It stings. Really felt like we had a team to go and just weren\u2019t able to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best-of-seven World Series between low-payroll pennant winners opens Friday night in Milwaukee. It will be the first World Series between title-less teams since the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals in 1980. Just five of the current MLB<\/a> 30 teams have never won a title, with Colorado, San Diego and Seattle also ringless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city is ready. I know that the fans are ready, and I know that we\u2019ll be ready,\u201d said Milwaukee\u2019s Jake Bauers, MVP of the four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Jacob Misiorowski heads the pitchers with his 100 mph-plus heat, and each team features a dynamic 22-year-old anchoring the lineup: Jackson Chourio of the Brewers and Junior Caminero of the Rays. Tampa Bay\u2019s Peralta and Drew Rasmussen could pitch against their former teams.<\/p>\n

The Brewers started as the expansion Seattle Pilots in 1969, then were bought by Bud Selig\u2019s group in bankruptcy court and moved to Milwaukee for the 1970 season. The team\u2019s only Series trip was a seven-game loss to St Louis in the 1982 Suds Series, back when the Brewers were in the American League.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay launched as the expansion Devil Rays in 1998 and dropped the \u201cDevil\u201d ahead of the 2008 season. The team\u2019s two World Series appearances ended with losses to Philadelphia in 2008 and the Dodgers in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee had MLB\u2019s 19th-highest payroll as of 31 August. Tampa Bay were 25th. Not since 1991 had both pennant winners been among the bottom 50% in player spending. Minnesota were 15th among 26 teams when they beat Atlanta (19th) in seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freddy Peralta threw 5.1 gritty innings, Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz each hit a two-run homer and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-833522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117471479216073341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}