The Brewers are one win from a championship after blowing the World Series wide open with one of the most outrageous two-out rallies you’ll ever see.
Milwaukee rolled to a 10-1 win in Game 3 last night, and the damage came in a fifth inning that turned a tight game into a runaway. It was the kind of inning that doesn’t just flip a score; it changes the entire feel of a series.
Tampa Bay starter Freddy Peralta, excellent all postseason, ran into trouble in the third when he gave up two runs on a walk and three singles. The bigger collapse came later.
In the fifth, Christian Yelich worked a two-out walk, then William Contreras sent a hard grounder through the left side between third and short. Junior Caminero fielded it at third and tried to force the out at second, but Yelich beat the throw.
That kept the inning alive, loaded the bases and opened the floodgates.
Cam Booser came in after Peralta and Milwaukee immediately jumped him, lining two singles and two doubles while six runs scored. Cole Sulser was next, and he surrendered a single and a double before the inning finally ended. By then, the Brewers had put up eight runs with two outs and made it 10-0.
No team in World Series history has ever scored more two-out runs in a single inning.
The Brewers also reached 10 runs without hitting a home run, which is part of what makes this team tick. They were one of the most dangerous lineups in the majors during the regular season, finishing second in scoring behind the Cubs, but they did it by stringing hits together and grinding through long at-bats. They tied for the second-fewest home runs in the majors, and that method showed up again last night.
It’s the same formula that has carried them to this point, and now it has them on the doorstep of something bigger. No team has swept both the LCS and the World Series since the league expanded the LCS to a best-of-seven format in 1985. If the Rays can’t shake off what happened last night, the Brewers could become the first.
The WNBA made a very different kind of headline yesterday, announcing that Game 6 of the Finals will be played at State Farm Arena in Atlanta at 12:30 p.m. ET. That’s 9:30 a.m. in the city the Valkyries call home.
The timing is the awkward part. Atlanta’s larger arena is already tied up by a Hawks game on Thursday night, which left the league staring at a messy problem.
ESPN reported that the WNBA didn’t want to move the game to another mid-sized Atlanta-area venue because it “would feel like road games for both teams.” Another possible solution was pushing Game 6 to Friday and moving a potential Game 7 from Saturday to Tuesday.
There was also the option of shifting the Cavs-Hawks game to Cleveland, though that would have created travel issues for the Hawks after their Wednesday night home game against the Heat. But Cleveland would already be flying after playing Wednesday night, and the Hawks could have been more flexible to avoid the crunch. Instead, the Finals game stays in Atlanta and the Hawks have moved their tip-off back one hour to 8 p.m.
The league clearly wanted to avoid a championship game in a tiny building. State Farm Arena is the Hawks’ home and the Dream’s part-time home, and the Dream are moving there full-time next season.
Even so, a weekday afternoon title game comes with its own odd optics. The WNBA is trying to preserve the look of a major event, but it’s doing so by placing the game in a slot that makes it harder for fans to get there and harder for viewers to watch.
There was also plenty of chaos elsewhere last night. Dak Prescott hit CeeDee Lamb on a perfect pass for the Cowboys’ lead.
Red Wings rookie Michal Postava made a difficult save in the final seconds of overtime, then stopped all three shootout attempts to win in his first NHL start. Veronica Burton used a behind-the-back dribble to free herself for a clutch basket in the fourth quarter.
There was also the strangest basket you’ll see all season in the NBA, plus Chandler Simpson’s spectacular catch as he crashed into the wall.
That catch would have had a real claim to being one of the night’s top World Series moments if the Rays had finished the job. Instead, Milwaukee owns the spotlight now.
Game 4 is set for tonight at 8 p.m. ET on Fox, with the Brewers going for a sweep and the franchise’s first championship.
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