Brewers Survive A Wild Ninth To Take Game 1 Of The World Series

Milwaukee beat Tampa Bay 3-2 in Game 1 of the World Series: Jacob Misiorowski’s record 103.5 mph first pitch, two Rays rallies killed on the bases, and a ninth-inning double play erased on review before Trevor Megill struck out the final batter.

By Davies Daily Staff Reports · Saturday, October 24, 2026

MILWAUKEE — The first pitch of the World Series was the fastest ever thrown in one, and the final out came with the tying run standing at third base. In between, the Milwaukee Brewers scored twice in the first inning, watched the Tampa Bay Rays run themselves out of two rallies, and survived a ninth inning that had already set off a celebration to beat Tampa Bay 3–2 on Friday night and take a 1–0 lead in the World Series.

Jacob Misiorowski opened the game with a 103.5 mph fastball, the fastest pitch in World Series history, and held the Rays to one run on four hits over five innings. He struck out three, walked one and threw 78 pitches. Nick Martinez took the loss for Tampa Bay; he started because the Rays pushed their ace, Drew Rasmussen, back to Game 2 for an extra day of rest. Misiorowski’s 1.80 earned run average and 252 strikeouts led the major leagues this season.

The Rays threatened before the Brewers came to bat, putting runners at first and second with one out in the first, but Junior Caminero lined out and Jonathan Aranda was doubled off second. Milwaukee struck in the bottom half: Jackson Chourio singled on the first pitch, Christian Yelich tripled off the glove of Jonny DeLuca on his diving attempt in right-center, and William Contreras followed with a run-scoring single to left for a 2–0 lead.

Tampa Bay’s only run off Misiorowski came in the fourth. Aranda walked, Caminero turned on a 101 mph fastball for a double, and Liam Hicks brought Aranda home with a groundout to make it 2–1.

Then the Rays’ aggression, the engine of their season, turned on them. In the fifth, Victor Mesa Jr. singled to lead off and reached second. With two outs and Yandy Díaz at the plate — Díaz hit .370 with runners in scoring position this season, the best mark in the majors — Mesa broke for third on a 103 mph fastball, and Contreras threw him out at third for the final out of the inning. Contreras threw out 25 runners this season, second in the majors, and the Rays had been 11-for-11 on stolen-base attempts in the postseason.

An inning later it happened again. Aranda singled off reliever Abner Uribe, manager Kevin Cash sent him on a full count, Chandler Simpson struck out on a slider that would have been ball four, and Contreras threw out Aranda at second to complete a strikeout-throwout double play — with Caminero, one of Tampa Bay’s most dangerous hitters, waiting on deck.

“Easy to say now, but it was not the best move,” Mesa said. “I understand that was not the smartest move. Learn from that, and I apologize or whatever to my teammates.” Simpson said the Rays would not change: “That’s us. We can’t run away from that because that’s who we are.”

Milwaukee made a baserunning mistake of its own — David Hamilton doubled in the fifth and was thrown out stretching it into a triple — but Hamilton produced in the seventh, advancing a runner into scoring position with a productive out, and Chourio drove him in with an opposite-field ground-ball single to make it 3–1. Uribe and Aaron Ashby combined for three scoreless innings and five strikeouts behind Misiorowski.

The ninth nearly undid all of it. Trevor Megill came on to close and gave up one-out singles to Aranda and Simpson. Jorge Mateo entered as a pinch runner, and he and Simpson pulled off a double steal. Caminero walked to load the bases. Hicks then grounded into what looked like a game-ending double play, and the crowd of 43,250 began to celebrate — until the replay review showed shortstop Cooper Pratt had been pulled off the bag at second base by Brice Turang’s throw. The out at second never counted. Hicks was retired at first, Mateo scored to make it 3–2, and Tampa Bay stood with the tying run at third and the go-ahead run at second. Megill struck out DeLuca to end the game, his fifth save in five postseason opportunities.

It is Milwaukee’s first World Series since 1982, when the Brewers lost in seven games, and neither club has ever won the Series — Tampa Bay is 0–2 in its two appearances. Game 2 is Saturday night in Milwaukee, with Rasmussen starting for the Rays against Logan Henderson. First pitch is 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

Sources: Reuters, USA Today, Fox Sports and TSN, October 23–24, 2026.