Rays end eight-game win streak, force World Series decider
Tampa Bay won 4-3 in 12 innings Tuesday, becoming the fifth team in 26 years to overcome a 3-0 deficit in the Fall Classic.
By Vikram Harrison ·
Fourteen out of every fifteen teams that fell behind three games to nothing in the World Series failed to win the championship. That historical trend faced a challenge Tuesday night at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, when the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 in twelve innings.
The victory snapped an eight-game winning streak for the Brewers and pushed the series to a decisive sixth game. The Rays entered the night trailing 3-0 after dropping the first two contests at American Family Field and losing the first matchup on their home turf.
The win marks the fifth time in twenty-six years that a team erased a 3-0 deficit in the World Series to take the fourth game. Historical records show that the previous four teams to achieve this feat lost the subsequent fifth game. In the broader context of seven-game postseason series, only one team has ever come back from such a hole: the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series.
The Brewers had been positioned to become the second team in history to sweep both a league championship series and the World Series. Their pitcher, Jacob Misiorowski, is the favorite for the National League Cy Young Award and is scheduled to start for Milwaukee on Wednesday.
Game five of the best-of-seven series will be played on Wednesday at 8:00 pm Eastern time at Tropicana Field. The winner will take the championship, while the loser will end its season.
