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Milwaukee Brewers’ Sal Frelick celebrates his home run during the sixth inning of Game 2 of baseball’s World Series, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, in Milwaukee, between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays. (AP Photo\/David J. Phillip)<\/p>\n
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Milwaukee has won seven straight games and became the fifth team to twice overcome four-run deficits for victories in a single postseason, the first since Philadelphia in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey believe and they don\u2019t give up,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThey just keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay first baseman Jonathan Aranda committed one error and misplayed a foul pop, left fielder Chandler Simpson dropped a flyball and slow-footed catcher Liam Hicks was thrown out at the plate by Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had moments like these throughout the regular season and we\u2019ve been able to flip the page,\u201d Aranda said. \u201cSo we just have to do that here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abner Uribe pitched 1 1\/3 hitless innings for the win, and the game ended when Aaron Ashby struck out Yandy D\u00edaz on a checked swing<\/a>, stranding Jonny DeLuca at third after a leadoff double in the ninth.<\/p>\n Game 3 of the matchup between teams seeking their first title is Monday night at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n Of the 57 previous teams to take 2-0 World Series leads, 46 claimed the championship.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got beaten in all phases of the game,\u201d DeLuca said. \u201cWe love playing at the Trop. It\u2019s a unique place.\u201d<\/p>\n After losing Friday\u2019s opener 3-2<\/a>, the Rays burst ahead in the first against rookie Logan Henderson. <\/p>\n Pratt made his fourth error of the postseason at shortstop, the Brewers\u2019 ninth in 10 games, bouncing his throw past first baseman Jake Bauers on D\u00edaz\u2019s leadoff grounder. Simpson and Junior Caminero followed with RBI singles, and Liam Hicks hit a two-run homer.<\/p>\n Milwaukee started to claw back with two runs in the bottom half off Rays ace Drew Rasmussen.<\/a><\/p>\n Chourio and Bauers started with singles and 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. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a huge at-bat,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThat first inning meant something that we bounced back against a pitcher that good.\u201d<\/p>\n Garrett Mitchell\u2019s two-out single cut the deficit to 4-2 in the highest-scoring Series first inning since 1993\u2019s Game 4. Hamilton hit an RBI grounder in the fourth that bounced under Aranda\u2019s legs for an error. <\/p>\n Frelick capped a nine-pitch at-bat against Ian Seymour in the sixth by driving a fastball over the center-field fence. The 5-foot-9 No. 8 hitter sped around the bases in 18.72 seconds, half the time of some theatrical postseason trots<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he knows what it\u2019s like to hit a home run to dead center, so I don\u2019t think he knew if he got it or not,\u201d Bauers said.<\/p>\n Frelick had gone 103 plate appearances without a home run since his July 11 drive off Pittsburgh\u2019s Braxton Ashcraft and had not gone deep against a lefty pitcher since opening day against Tyler Gilbert of the Chicago White Sox. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s got the `it factor,\u2019\u201d Murphy said before the game. \u201cYou think of Joe Montana. You think of people that have \u2014 Larry Bird \u2014 that have the it factor. I\u2019m not saying he\u2019s at that level of talent or has been in a position to do those things, but he has that `it factor.\u2019 He can take a team down the field.\u201d<\/p>\n Caminero reacted by yelling at teammates in Tampa Bay\u2019s dugout.<\/p>\n \u201cJust trying to create some energy and get some life back into us,\u201d he said through a translator.<\/p>\n One of the 12-year-old kid reporters from Wisconsin working the Series pointed out to Frelick that his home run caused Bernie Brewer, Milwaukee\u2019s mascot, to slide down his 75-foot slide beyond the left-field fence for the first time in World Series history.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s really cool,\u201d Frelick said. \u201cI only made him go down four times this whole year.\u201d<\/p>\n Screaming fans in the crowd of 43,245 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 \u201cIt\u2019s mayhem, and I\u2019ve never experienced anything like it before,\u201d Frelick said. \u201cIt\u2019s been motivating for all the players.\u201d<\/p>\n Brice Turang doubled against losing pitcher Tyler Wells on the second pitch of the bottom half, advanced on Mitchell\u2019s deep flyout to right and scored when Pratt looped a 2-2 sinker from Kevin Kelly into short right field.<\/p>\n \u201cMy heart was racing,\u201d Pratt said. \u201cYou saw me chase the 1-1 pitch in the other batter\u2019s box.\u201d<\/p>\n A 22-year-old who debuted in June, Pratt has had a season of learning. Murphy removed him from an Aug. 25 game at the New York Mets<\/a> when he didn\u2019t run hard on a bloop single.<\/p>\n Pratt thought of that as he spoke with Frelick.<\/p>\n \u201cI sat there next to this guy, and he\u2019s like, `Hey, man, I\u2019ve been there, I\u2019ve done that. I\u2019ve been pulled a couple times. Just don\u2019t let it happen again. There\u2019s standards here,\u2019\u201d Pratt said.<\/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 ___<\/p>\n See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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