The Milwaukee Brewers are one win from their first World Series championship, and Game 3 had plenty of reasons to grab attention before it even got to the finish. Robert Gasser worked six shutout innings, Milwaukee’s offense piled up 10 runs on 16 hits, and the Brewers turned their first road game of the Fall Classic into a 10-1 romp.
Jackson Chourio collected four hits. William Conteras was a force at the plate and behind it. The big fifth inning, when Milwaukee scored eight times, sent former Brewers ace Freddy Peralta out of the game and broke the night open.
Still, the image that may linger longest for a lot of fans came in the ninth, when Brandon Woodruff stepped on the mound.
For Brewers followers, the sight carried real weight. Woodruff has been through a brutal stretch over the last several years, with a severe shoulder injury keeping him off a major league mound for nearly two full years before he finally returned in 2025.
That comeback didn’t last long, either - a lat strain shut him down in the postseason. Then another shoulder injury limited him to just nine starts this year, and he finished 2-2 with a 2.98 ERA.
For a while, the idea of Woodruff pitching again this season looked remote, maybe even impossible. But his recovery took an unexpected turn, surgery was no longer needed, and he began a throwing program with the hope that he might be available if Milwaukee reached the World Series.
Now the Brewers are here, and so is Woodruff.
He pitched the ninth and gave up a run, but it barely mattered in a game Milwaukee already had wrapped up. The Brewers’ 10-1 win pushed them ahead 3-0 in the series.
Afterward, Woodruff revealed that he had actually been set to start Game 4 before the conversation changed in the dugout. As Curt Hogg posted, Woodruff said: “I was gonna be down for what looked like tomorrow, but in perfect Murph fashion, he calls down and asks if I want… well, he sends Bryn down and asks if I want to throw the ninth or wait until tomorrow. And I told him I want it right now.”
He later made it clear he had been slated to open the next game in a limited role.
“I think it’s pretty safe to say now, yeah, I was going to open tomorrow. I was gonna let it roll as long as I could and as long as my shoulder would let me go … but in the back of my mind, I knew I was coming in once we got the big lead.”
The trainer Murphy sent down to check in with him, Bryn, is also the trainer who got the two-time All-Star throwing again and made this World Series moment possible.
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