The Tampa Bay Rays aren’t done yet.
Facing elimination, the Rays dug deep in Game 4 at Tropicana Field and walked off the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 in 12 innings, keeping their World Series hopes alive and forcing a Game 5. The winning blow came from pinch-hitter Ben Williamson, who sent a bases-loaded single into right field off reliever Shane Drohan to end it.
Milwaukee had grabbed the lead in the top of the 12th on Cooper Pratt’s homer, which looked for a moment like it might finish off the series. Instead, the Rays answered with a frantic rally in the bottom half.
Junior Caminero sparked it by reaching on Joey Ortiz’s throwing error to start the inning. He came up limping after getting to first and stayed in the game long enough to move to third on Liam Hicks’ single before being replaced by a pinch runner.
As he left the field, he was visibly limping. Jonny DeLuca followed with an RBI single to tie it, Chandler Simpson kept the inning alive with his third hit of the game after failing on a sacrifice bunt attempt, and Williamson stepped in for Victor Mesa Jr. and lined the first pitch he saw into right field for the win.
The finish carried some rare postseason weight. According to Sarah Langs of MLB.com, Williamson’s hit was the first walk-off winner for a team facing elimination in the World Series since David Freese in Game 6 of the 2011 classic. The last team to pull off a walk-off World Series win while staring at a sweep was the 1910 Chicago Cubs.
Now the Rays trail 3-1 in the series, but they’ve bought themselves another night. A win Wednesday would send the World Series back to Milwaukee. They still face a steep climb, though: the 2004 Boston Red Sox remain the only team in MLB history to win a playoff series after falling behind 3-0, and no team has ever done it in the World Series.
“We're dangerous,” Rays right-hander Nick Martinez said, according to Rays reporter Ryan Bass. “We have our backs against the wall ... we know what we have to do.
We can win four in a row. This team is capable of doing that.”
The loss was only Milwaukee’s second of the 2026 playoffs.
Jackson Chourio kept raking in defeat, going 2-for-6 to push his series total to 10 hits, tying Babe Ruth’s 1928 record for the most through the first four games of a World Series, per Langs. Pratt nearly authored the clincher himself, finishing 4-for-5 with two RBIs after his 12th-inning homer briefly put the Brewers ahead.
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