ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Milwaukee Brewers scored eight runs in the fifth inning and beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night at Tropicana Field.
Milwaukee leads the series 3-0 and is one win from the first World Series championship in franchise history. Game 4 is Tuesday night in St. Petersburg.
The Brewers scored twice in the third inning. Jackson Chourio reached and scored on a Christian Yelich single, and Jake Bauers scored on a William Contreras single to make it 2-0.
Robert Gasser held Tampa Bay to one hit over six scoreless innings, with one walk and three strikeouts. The one hit was a Yandy Díaz single from the first hitter Gasser faced in the bottom of the first.
Tampa Bay did not record another hit until the ninth inning.
Milwaukee sent the game out of reach in the fifth, scoring all eight runs with two outs. Brice Turang singled in Yelich and Chourio, Garrett Mitchell singled in Contreras, and Cooper Pratt doubled in Mitchell and Turang to make it 7-0. Sal Frelick doubled in Pratt, David Hamilton singled in Frelick, and Chourio doubled in Hamilton for the 10-0 lead.
Freddy Peralta took the loss for Tampa Bay, charged with five runs on seven hits over 4.2 innings. Cam Booser gave up four runs on four hits in the fifth without recording an out.
Chourio went 4-for-5 with two runs scored, an RBI double and a stolen base. Contreras had three hits. Turang and Pratt drove in two runs each, the most in the game, and Milwaukee's four extra-base hits were all doubles. Neither team hit a home run.
Tampa Bay scored in the ninth. Cedric Mullins singled and scored on a Díaz double off Brandon Woodruff. Díaz had two of the Rays' three hits and their only RBI. Antonio Senzatela threw two hitless innings in relief for Milwaukee.
This recap is brought to you in part by Animas Painting — interior and exterior painting in Calgary. Reach Rafael at 403-604-5529.