Jacob Misiorowski needed 86 pitches to take the World Series away from Tampa Bay. The Milwaukee Brewers right-hander held the Rays to two hits and a walk over 5 2/3 scoreless innings on Wednesday night, and Milwaukee closed it out from there.
The Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 in front of 40,489 at Tropicana Field to win the series 4-1. It is the first World Series championship in franchise history. Milwaukee went 103-59 in the regular season, Tampa Bay 98-64.
Jacob Misiorowski's Game 5 Line and a Bullpen That Got 10 Outs
Misiorowski's line: 5 2/3 innings, two hits, no runs, one walk, two strikeouts, 58 strikes. JoJo Romero and Abner Uribe each got two outs, and Trevor Megill finished with two innings, allowing the only run on Chandler Simpson's RBI double in the ninth, per the ESPN box score. Tampa Bay finished with four hits.
Cooper Pratt's Two RBIs Built the Lead
Shortstop Cooper Pratt went 2 for 3 and drove in two. His second-inning single scored Brice Turang for a 1-0 lead, and his sacrifice fly in the sixth made it 4-0. David Hamilton singled in Pratt in the fifth, and William Contreras doubled home Christian Yelich in the sixth. Turang had two hits. Jackson Chourio went 1 for 4.
Rays starter Drew Rasmussen allowed one run in four innings with four strikeouts, but the Brewers scored three more off relievers Kevin Kelly and Garrett Cleavinger in the fifth and sixth.
Milwaukee is the smallest market in the majors, as ESPN noted in its Game 5 recap, and now it has a championship. Every World Series game we covered is on our World Series page.