Are the Brewers inevitable? Game 2 comeback latest proof Milwaukee can't be beat — SkimNews
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- Milwaukee Brewers erased a four-run first-inning deficit to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 in World Series Game 2, taking a 2-0 series lead and moving two wins from the franchise's first championship.
- Sal Frelick hit a sixth-inning home run off Rays left-hander Ian Seymour to tie the score, and rookie Cooper Pratt's seventh-inning RBI single scored Brice Turang for the go-ahead run before 43,245 at American Family Field.
- Cooper Pratt committed the throwing error on the first play of Game 2 that produced Tampa Bay's four-run first inning — the Brewers' own miscue that opened the hole they climbed out of.
- Aaron Ashby finished his 15th scoreless inning of the postseason, with the Brewers' bullpen throwing six scoreless innings and the Rays shut out for an eighth consecutive frame.
- Milwaukee Brewers won seven of the eight postseason games they trailed and are 9-1, after comeback wins over San Diego — including the NL Division Series clincher — and a sweep of Los Angeles after trailing in all four games of the NLCS.
- Tampa Bay Rays spent the first two games of the Series making the sorts of mistakes that the Brewers haven't, with Game 3 set for Monday at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Boston Red Sox rallied from the same 4-0 deficit in a 2018 World Series Game 2, ambushing the Dodgers en route to an 11-2 postseason; should Milwaukee keep rolling, the Brewers would join them among the most dominant champions this century.
Why it matters: Tampa Bay's 2-0 hole now reflects a 9-1 postseason run in which Milwaukee won seven of the eight games it trailed, and the Rays have made the mistakes the Brewers haven't. With Aaron Ashby's 15 scoreless postseason innings behind them, Milwaukee carries that edge to Monday's hostile Tropicana Field.
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