The joy and pain that define baseball were in full force in Game 4 — SkimNews
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- Tampa Bay Rays won Game 4 at Tropicana Field 4-3 in a 4-hour, 20-minute affair, extending the World Series after their first three losses and sparing Milwaukee the first championship that the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin have pursued for 57 years.
- Cooper Pratt, a 22-year-old rookie from Mississippi who was not in the big leagues until June, hammered a leadoff home run in the top of the 12th on the first pitch he saw off Ian Seymour — his fourth hit of the night — putting the Brewers a half-inning from the championship.
- Joey Ortiz, the Brewers' third baseman, skipped the throw on Junior Caminero's ground ball and first baseman Jake Bauers could not pick it, an error with no outs that the Rays described as one of their more grievous sins of the series.
- Liam Hicks singled to left after the error to place runners at first and third with no outs, and Jonny DeLuca then tied the score by smashing a Shane Drohan pitch up the middle as the Milwaukee infield came in.
- Ben Williamson, a pinch hitter deployed by Rays manager Kevin Cash, came up after Chandler Simpson poked a ball up the chute to load the bases and delivered the game-winning hit on one pitch and one swing.
- Los Angeles Dodgers had been swept by Milwaukee, and the Brewers entered Game 4 threatening to repeat that sweep against Tampa Bay; the Rays' rally instead pushed the Series to a fifth game.
- Major League Baseball faces a coming lockout after a "winter of discontent," and Game 4 fell on the one-year anniversary of the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays' 18-inning World Series contest, leaving the sport alive for at least one more day.
Why it matters: Milwaukee's 57-year wait for a championship goes unfilled for another night, and a club that led the Series 3-0 after sweeping the Dodgers must now play Game 5. Tampa Bay's season, described as dead before the rally, survives another day; Cooper Pratt's 12th-inning breakthrough becomes a near-miss instead of a coronation.
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