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Milwaukee Brewers Game Review — Oct 27, 2026: 3-4 vs Tampa Bay Rays · Milwaukee Brewers Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Mike Michelson coming at you from the
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  Speaker 1: other side of a game that should not have happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean that in the best and worst ways possible.
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  Speaker 1: If you watched this thing tonight at Tropicana Field, you
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm talking about. Cooper Pratt hit a
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  Speaker 1: home run in the top of the 12th inning to
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  Speaker 1: give us a one-run lead, and for about 15 minutes
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  Speaker 1: we were thinking about confetti. Then the bottom half happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know about you, but I'm still staring
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  Speaker 1: at my ceiling wondering if that was real. Four singles,
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  Speaker 1: no outs recorded. And just like that, the sweep goes
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  Speaker 1: away and this World Series gets a game five. But
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  Speaker 1: let me walk through this because there's so much here
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about, both the stuff that makes me want
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  Speaker 1: to throw my remote and the stuff that makes me
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  Speaker 1: proud to wear this jersey. First, the big picture. We
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  Speaker 1: still lead this series three games to one. That's what matters.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay won tonight, avoided the sweep, and we are
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  Speaker 1: not the first team to ever win seven straight through
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  Speaker 1: a best of seven LCS and a best of seven
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  Speaker 1: World Series. That's cool. That's fine. We'll take it. But
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  Speaker 1: the way we lost this one stings. Let me take
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  Speaker 1: you back to the beginning because there's a story here.
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  Speaker 1: Dustin May was sharp early. He went through the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the first without allowing anything, then got hit in
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  Speaker 1: the second on a Chandler Simpson double that played a
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  Speaker 1: Johnny DeLuca. That was the one-run lead Tampa Bay built.
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  Speaker 1: And for a moment, you could see the old fear
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  Speaker 1: creeping in, that feeling of watching a Rays team get
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  Speaker 1: comfortable at home and thinking maybe they're going to pull
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  Speaker 1: this out. But the Brewers answered in the fourth. Sal
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  Speaker 1: Freelick lined a single, and then Cooper Pratt did what
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  Speaker 1: he has done all October, absolutely destroyed a ball to
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  Speaker 1: left field, two outs, and that double evened the score
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  Speaker 1: at one apiece. Now here's where it gets a little
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  Speaker 1: messy on our end. The Rays got the lead right
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  Speaker 1: back on what I'm going to call the least baseball
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  Speaker 1: play of the entire series. Caminero was standing on second base,
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  Speaker 1: and DeLuca hit a chopper to David Hamilton at third.
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton fielded it through to first, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: throwing error that let Caminero score. We challenged the tag play,
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  Speaker 1: but the call on the field stood. And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you've just got to tip your cap because that's baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The ball hit the right spot on the fielding hand
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  Speaker 1: and went sideways. Nobody's dying over that. But it put
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  Speaker 1: us in a 2-1 hole and made me nervous because
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was going to protect that lead like it
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  Speaker 1: was the last dollar in the house. The fifth inning
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  Speaker 1: gave us some life. David Hamilton, who had made that
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  Speaker 1: throwing error earlier, stepped into the batter's box and absolutely
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  Speaker 1: launched a solo home run to right center. about 391
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  Speaker 1: feet of pure redemption. Tied it at two, and you
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  Speaker 1: could feel the energy shift in that ballpark. The Brewers
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  Speaker 1: had punched back twice now and we were in a
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  Speaker 1: real ballgame. From there, it was a pitcher's affair through
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  Speaker 1: the early innings of extras. Neither team could muster much.
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  Speaker 1: Tropicana Field was quiet except for the traveling fans who
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  Speaker 1: made the trek down to St. Pete. The Brewers did
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  Speaker 1: what they had to do in those middle innings, kept
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  Speaker 1: guys off the bases and waited for something. Abner Uribe
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  Speaker 1: came in and logged two innings without allowing a run,
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  Speaker 1: which was massive because the bullpen was being stretched thin.
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  Speaker 1: You could see Pat Murphy calculating on that bench, thinking
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  Speaker 1: through who he had left, who could give one more,
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  Speaker 1: who was already cooked. That calculus is what made everything
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  Speaker 1: that followed so painful. The 12th inning starts, and this
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  Speaker 1: is the moment we'll talk about for years. Cooper Pratt
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  Speaker 1: steps in against Ian Seymour and absolutely demolishes a 396-foot
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  Speaker 1: solo bomb to left center field. The shortstop who hit
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  Speaker 1: just three home runs during the entire regular season gave
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  Speaker 1: us a 3-2 lead in Game 4 of the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Four hits tonight. The first rookie in Major League history
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  Speaker 1: to record four hits in a potential World Series clincher.
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  Speaker 1: You can't write that stuff. After that, Jackson Shurio doubled
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  Speaker 1: with two out before Jake Bowers popped out to end
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  Speaker 1: the frame. We had the lead. We actually had it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the bottom half started and I need you
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  Speaker 1: all to understand the situation we were in. Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: goes to Antonio Sensatella to close it out, which is
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable call given the exhaustion. Caminero gets hit up.
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  Speaker 1: And on the next play, Joey Ortiz makes a throwing
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  Speaker 1: error across the diamond trying to get him at first.
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  Speaker 1: That brings in Shane Drohan, a guy who had basically
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  Speaker 1: nothing left to give because the rest of the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: was tapped out. And Drohan got four straight singles and
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  Speaker 1: didn't record a single out. Their Lucas single tied it
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  Speaker 1: at three. Then the bases loaded with nobody out and
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  Speaker 1: Ben Williamson walked off the raise on a ground ball
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  Speaker 1: to Sal Freelick that scored Nick Fortes. Four singles, no outs,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole thing unraveled in about 90 seconds. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to hang this entirely on Drohan. The reality
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  Speaker 1: is that he was the guy available because we'd spent
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  Speaker 1: every good reliever in a 4 hour and 20 minute game,
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  Speaker 1: but it hurts to watch. Here's where I land. Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Pratt is a star, we know it now, and the
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  Speaker 1: baseball world knows it too. David Hamilton has ice water
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  Speaker 1: in his veins. The pitching staff kept us alive for
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  Speaker 1: 11 innings before the tank hit empty, and we are
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  Speaker 1: still up 3-1 in a World Series. The Rays just
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  Speaker 1: gave Tampa one of the best nights they've had in years,
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  Speaker 1: and good for them. But the narrative heading into Game
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  Speaker 1: 5 is ours to control. We get to play at
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  Speaker 1: home in front of our people, and all we need
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  Speaker 1: is one more win, one more game to lift the trophy.
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  Speaker 1: So tonight stings, but take a breath, pour yourself something cold,
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  Speaker 1: and remember that you've got a one-run lead in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the 12th with the home crowd behind you
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  Speaker 1: coming Tuesday. It's not over. It's actually about to get beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mike Michelson, and I'll see you in Milwaukee.