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Live sport on SN this weekendBrewers enhance World Series lead with epic comeback
Ronald Blum •  October 25th, 2026 5:30 pm
The Milwaukee Brewers are in the box seat to win this year's World Series | Photo: AP
Sal Frelick tied the score with his first home run in three months, while Cooper Pratt hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning as the Milwaukee Brewers stunned the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 for a 2-0 World Series lead.
Tampa Bay, having won the American League pennant by forcing opponents into mistakes, committed one error, made two other misplays that could have been charged as errors and had a runner thrown out at the plate.
Down 4-0 in the first inning, Milwaukee rallied for their seventh comeback win of this MLB post-season.
"As long as there's game left, we have a chance. I think we've all bought into that. We're never out of it," Pratt said.
The Brewers also rebounded from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, completing a four-game sweep.
Cooper Pratt helped his side recover from 4-0 down to claim a 2-0 lead in the World Series | Photo: AP
Milwaukee won their seventh straight game, becoming the fifth team to twice overcome four-run deficits for victories in a single post-season and the first since Philadelphia in 2022.
Game 3 of the series between two teams seeking their first title is Monday night (Tuesday NZ time) at Tropicana Field in Florida, where the Brewers most recently played in 2023.
Of the 57 previous teams to take 2-0 World Series leads, 46 claimed the championship.
After losing Friday's opener 3-2, the Rays burst ahead against rookie Logan Henderson but the Brewers started to claw back with two runs in the bottom half against Tampa Bay ace Drew Rasmussen.
David Hamilton cut the deficit to 4-3 with a run-scoring grounder in the fourth and Frelick capped a nine-pitch at-bat against Ian Seymour in the sixth by driving a fastball over the centre-field fence.
Frelick had gone 103 plate appearances without a home run since his July 11 drive off Pittsburgh's Braxton Ashcraft and had not gone deep against a lefty pitcher since opening day against Tyler Gilbert of the Chicago White Sox.
Frelick sped around the bases in 18.72 seconds, half the time of some theatrical trots this post-season.
"I was just pumped to try to get back to the dugout," Frelick said.
"I don't hit a lot of home runs, especially to center, so I was happy it went out."
Screaming fans at the second game of Milwaukee's first World Series since 1982 were fired up during the seventh-inning stretch, dancing to the "Beer Barrel Polka" played by Mike Schneider, an accordionist from Clinton, Wisconsin.
Brice Turang doubled against losing pitcher Tyler Wells on the second pitch of the bottom half, advanced on Garrett Mitchell's flyout to right and scored when Pratt, a 22-year-old who debuted in June, looped a sinker from Kevin Kelly into short right field.
Abner Uribe pitched 1 1/3 hitless innings for the win.
