some theatrical trots this postseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI was just pumped to try to get back to the dugout,\u201d the 5-foot-9 Frelick said. \u201cI don\u2019t hit a lot of home runs, especially to center, so I was happy it went out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Screaming fans at Milwaukee\u2019s first World Series since 1982 were fired up during the seventh-inning stretch, dancing to the \u201cBeer Barrel Polka\u201d played by Mike Schneider, an accordionist from Clinton, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Brice Turang doubled against losing pitcher Tyler Wells on the second pitch of the bottom half, advanced on Garrett Mitchell\u2019s deep flyout to right and scored when Pratt, a 22-year-old shortstop who debuted in June, looped a sinker from Kevin Kelly into short right field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve been down a lot early throughout the playoffs so far,\u201d Frelick said. \u201cNine innings to play, and it doesn\u2019t really change your offensive plan at all. We\u2019re trying to go up, take a chunk of the pitcher each at-bat, pass it to the next guy and hopefully that leads to a few runs doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abner Uribe pitched 1 1\/3 hitless innings for the win.<\/p>\n
Jonny DeLuca doubled off Aaron Ashby starting the ninth, then Victor Mesa Jr. struck out when he couldn\u2019t check his swing. Pinch-hitter Ben Williamson\u2019s groundout advanced the runner and Yandy D\u00edaz struck out when he couldn\u2019t check his swing on a full-count pitch.<\/p>\n
Ashby has three saves in the postseason while not allowing a run.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, we didn\u2019t play our cleanest baseball game by any stretch,\u201d Rays manager Kevin Cash said. \u201cWe pride ourselves on doing everything we can to support the pitchers and making plays behind them. Today was probably not our best day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milwaukee won its seventh straight game, becoming the fifth team to twice overcome four-run deficits for victories in a single postseason and the first since Philadelphia in 2022.<\/p>\n
Game 3 of the matchup between teams seeking their first title is Monday night at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the Brewers last played in 2023.<\/p>\n
Of the 57 previous teams to take 2-0 World Series leads, 46 claimed the championship.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay took a 4-2 lead in the highest-scoring Series first inning since 1993\u2019s Game 4 as the teams combined for seven hits, tying the most in an opening frame.<\/p>\n
Henderson followed Jacob Misiorowski in the Brewers\u2019 rotation, the first time teammates 24 or younger started the first two games of a World Series since Cincinnati\u2019s Gary Nolan and Ross Grimsley in 1972.<\/p>\n
Henderson started on 11 days\u2019 rest and struggled as the Rays fouled off 13 of 35 pitches in the first. He gave up four runs \u2014 three earned \u2014 in three innings.<\/p>\n
Given an extra day of rest, Rasmussen allowed three runs and six hits over 3 2\/3 innings in his shortest start since July 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust felt like he wasn\u2019t as sharp as he\u2019s been for quite some time,\u201d Cash said.<\/p>\n
Pratt made his fourth error of the postseason, the Brewers\u2019 ninth in 10 games, bouncing his throw past first baseman Jake Bauers on a leadoff grounder by D\u00edaz. Chandler Simpson and Junior Caminero followed with RBI singles, and Liam Hicks hit a two-run homer.<\/p>\n
Chourio and Bauers started the bottom half with singles and first baseman Jonathan Aranda allowed Contreras\u2019 one-out foul pop to bounce out of his mitt near netting in front of the seats.<\/p>\n
With Bauers running on a full-count pitch, Contreras bounced an RBI single to the left of second baseman Richie Palacios, who had taken a step toward the bag. Mitchell\u2019s two-out single cut the deficit to 4-2.<\/p>\n
Hamilton hit an RBI grounder in the fourth that bounced under Aranda\u2019s legs for an error.<\/p>\n
Chourio threw out Hicks for the final out of the sixth when third base coach Brady Williams waved the slow-footed catcher to try to score from second on Mesa\u2019s single.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve made some mistakes on the bases for sure, going back to yesterday,\u201d Cash said. \u201cTo their credit, they have responded with everything that we have thrown at them in these first two games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Rays RHP Freddy Peralta, a two-time All-Star while pitching for the Brewers from 2018-25, starts Game 3. He was the AL Championship Series MVP and is 2-0 with a 1.08 ERA in three postseason starts and one relief appearance. He will be opposed by Brewers LHP Robert Gasser, who allowed one run over nine innings in his first two postseason starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Sal Frelick tied the score with his first home run in three months, Cooper Pratt hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,24,49,2561,853,4,185,396,2562],"class_list":["post-837288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117499897005922897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837288","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=837288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}