The Milwaukee Brewers have already cycled through Jacob Misiorowski and Logan Henderson in the first two games of the World Series, and now they’re set to hand the ball to Robert Gasser in Game 3 on Monday.
Milwaukee has Sunday off as the series moves to Tampa Bay, and when the Brewers return to the field, Gasser will get the nod with a chance to push the club to a 3-0 series lead. At this stage, there wasn’t a cleaner answer. The Brewers could have gone with Brandon Woodruff as an opener or turned to someone like Kyle Harrison, but Gasser has been the right call.
The decision was confirmed on Saturday, and Gasser talked about the path that got him here.
"I'm really lucky, for one," Gasser said. "It's taken a lot of hard work, though.
Not everything is always luck. It took a lot of perseverance, working with different coaches in different places and just staying the course.
Gasser’s rise has come at exactly the right time. He made just seven major league appearances across the 2024 and 2025 seasons, then jumped to 21 appearances in 2026, including 20 starts, and posted a 3.87 ERA over 109 1/3 innings.
The numbers tell part of the story, but not all of it. His season took off late, and from Aug. 26 through Sep. 25, he put up a 1.67 ERA with a 31-to-12 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 32 1/3 innings across six outings.
That form has carried straight into October. Through two postseason starts, Gasser owns a 1.00 ERA in nine innings.
He went four innings against the San Diego Padres in the National League Division Series, then turned in what may have been the best start of his career in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. With Milwaukee trying to grab a 3-0 lead against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gasser fired five shutout innings against the two-time reigning champs and allowed only three hits.
Now he gets another chance to keep the Brewers rolling. A 3-0 lead in the World Series would put Milwaukee in a stranglehold, and no team in World Series history has ever erased that kind of deficit. The only club to come back from 3-0 down in a postseason series was the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 ALCS against the New York Yankees.
Misiorowski and Henderson got the first two turns. On Monday, it’s Gasser’s move.
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