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Brewers Get Another Shot At World Series Title Tonight: How To Watch Game 5
After a wild extra-inning loss, Milwaukee hands the ball to its ace with the championship on the line again.
MILWAUKEE, WI — The champagne will have to wait at least one more night for the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Tampa Bay Rays stayed alive in the World Series with a 4-3 walk-off win in 12 innings Tuesday night, cutting Milwaukee's series lead to 3-1. The Brewers get another chance to clinch the first title in franchise history in Game 5 on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Central time at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
How To Watch
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The game airs nationally on Fox, with streaming on Fox One and a Spanish-language broadcast on Fox Deportes, according to MLB.com's Game 5 preview. Fans without cable can also stream the Fox broadcast through Fubo.
On the radio, the Brewers Radio Network, with flagship station 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee, carries every game.
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Who's Pitching
Brewers manager Pat Murphy said after Game 4 that right-hander Jacob Misiorowski will start Game 5, ESPN reported. Misiorowski allowed one run over five innings in Milwaukee's Game 1 win.
The Rays had not named a starter as of Wednesday morning. All five pitchers who finished the regular season in Tampa Bay's rotation have pitched in the past four nights, leaving the Rays without a fully rested starter, MLB.com noted.
How Game 4 Slipped Away
Rookie Cooper Pratt, who finished with four hits including a home run, put the Brewers ahead 3-2 in extra innings. The Rays answered in the bottom of the 12th, when a throwing error by third baseman Joey Ortiz put Junior Caminero on base to lead off the inning.
Jonny DeLuca later singled in the tying run, and pinch-hitter Ben Williamson's single won it.
The loss snapped Milwaukee's eight-game postseason winning streak. Still, reliever Aaron Ashby extended his run to 18 straight scoreless innings this postseason, a record for a reliever within a single postseason.
Leadoff man Jackson Chourio also has 10 hits through four World Series games, tying a record set by Babe Ruth in 1928, CNN reported.
History Still Favors Milwaukee
No team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in the World Series. The Rays became just the fifth of 26 teams in that spot to win Game 4, and all four before them went on to lose Game 5.
If the Rays win again Wednesday, the series would shift back to American Family Field for Game 6 and, if necessary, Game 7.
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