World Series Game 4: Takeaways from Rays' walk-off win
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The 2026 World Series will have a Game 5!
The Tampa Bay Rays walked off Game 4 on Tuesday night to save their season, coming out on top of a back-and-forth battle that went 12 innings. After Cooper Pratt hit a solo blast in the top of the 12th to give the Milwaukee Brewers the edge, the Rays rallied in the bottom of the frame, with Junior Caminero getting things started by reaching first on a throwing error and pinch hitter Ben Williamson finishing things off by driving in the winning run. The Rays' 4-3 win in Game 4 means they avoid the sweep, allowing them to live to fight another day and try to send the Fall Classic back to Milwaukee.
We have you covered with all the in-game actions and postgame takeaways from Tropicana Field.
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Milwaukee leads series 3-1
Game 4 was over when: The baseball gods wanted it to be. They gave us rookie Pratt looking like he was going to hit an extra-innings, World Series-winning home run. And then they said not so fast, my friend. A rare Joey Ortiz error started it. Liam Hicks followed with a single. Jonny DeLuca followed with another. Chandler Simpson did the same. And Williamson's bases-loaded flare officially ended it, preserving the baseball season for at least another day. -- Jeff Passan
Game 4 star: Williamson's first hit of the World Series and second hit of the postseason kept Tampa Bay's season alive. After watching the first four hours and 19 minutes of this marathon, the infielder was summoned to pinch hit for Victor Mesa Jr . with left-hander Shane Drohan on the mound and the bases loaded in the 12th. He proceeded to bounce a walk-off single to right field to end the game. The 2026 Rays live on. -- Jorge Castillo
The stat that defined the game: 205. That's how many pitches the Rays need to outlast the Brewers and force a Game 5. Six relievers combined to hold the Brewers to one run over eight innings, allowing the Rays to finally get to a vulnerable spot in the Milwaukee bullpen. It took a lot of resources to get there, but then again, the Brewers burned through a lot of pitches and pitchers as well. We'll see what these teams have left Wednesday. For the Rays, that's all that matters: There will be a game tomorrow. -- Bradford Doolittle
What's next for the Brewers: With another chance to nail down the first championship in the franchise's 57-year history, it will be the Brewers' ace, Jacob Misiorowski , on the mound in Game 5. The hard-throwing 24-year-old right-hander is coming off his longest start of the postseason, pitching five innings of one-run ball in a Game 1 victory. Misiorowski has allowed just four runs across his three postseason starts, but he has yet to record an out in the sixth inning. The Padres, Dodgers and Rays have all done a good job fouling off pitches and taxing him out of his starts. And it might be crucial for him to overcome that his next time out. Brewers manager Pat Murphy used DL Hall for five outs, Abner Uribe for six outs and Aaron Ashby for seven outs in Game 4, which puts their availability for Game 5 up in the air. -- Alden Gonzalez
What's next for the Rays: Another day. The Rays survived by aggressively deploying their best available pitchers. All-Star starter Nick Martinez , who would've started Game 5, pitched two scoreless innings out of the bullpen. All-Star closer Bryan Baker followed him with two more scoreless innings. The Rays' pitching plan for Game 5 is unclear. What matters is they need one. -- Castillo
Junior Caminero ignited a Rays rally to extend their season by reaching base on an error by third baseman Joey Ortiz to lead off the 12th. Caminero, however, appeared to hurt himself running out the ground ball. He initially stayed in the game and sprinted first to third on Liam Hicks’ single to left field but was pulled for pinch runner Cedric Mullins, who scored the tying run on Jonny DeLuca’s single up the middle.
On the one-year anniversary of the 18-inning World Series game between the Dodgers and Blue Jays, Game 4 of the 2026 World Series is headed to the bottom of the 11th inning. Rays manager Kevin Cash called on Cam Booser -- who allowed four consecutive hits and four runs in Milwaukee's bonanza fifth inning in Game 3 -- to replace Tyler Wells. Amid issues with the mound and his PitchCom device, Booser walked Brice Turang on four pitches. He escaped by striking out Sal Frelick and giving the Rays another chance at a walk-off -- with Aaron Ashby coming out for his third inning of work. -- Jeff Passan
The Brewers thought they had the go-ahead run in scoring position in the ninth inning when Cooper Pratt singled and appeared to steal second base. But the Rays challenged the safe call and, after a long review, the call was reversed to end the top of the frame. Aaron Ashby then continued his postseason dominance out of Milwaukee’s bullpen with a clean inning, retiring Jonathan Aranda, Junior Caminero and Liam Hicks in order to send this game into extra innings. Ashby has now thrown 16⅔ scoreless innings in the playoffs, the longest scoreless streak ever for a reliever to start a postseason. -- Jorge Castillo
Game 4 of the World Series is headed to extra innings tied at 2.
Either the Milwaukee Brewers will win their first World Series in more than half a century of existence or the Tampa Bay Rays will walk them off and send the series to Game 5 tomorrow. -- Jeff Passan
Cooper Pratt's steal, which would have put the winning run for the Brewers in scoring position, was originally called safe. But after replay review, the call was overturned, sending us to the bottom of the ninth with the score still tied.
Chandler Simpson makes a potentially series-saving catch at the wall in the top of the ninth inning to keep the Brewers off the board and the score 2-2.
The Rays are bringing in closer Bryan Baker for the first time in the World Series -- in the eighth inning of a tie game. Baker last pitched eight days ago in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series to lock down Tampa Bay's World Series berth. Worth keeping an eye on: Baker's fastball velocity has been down precipitously from his high-90s peak before the All-Star Game. His first two heaters in Game 4: 94.2 and 94.3 mph, which is respectable considering that he has been more 92 and 93 mph. -- Jeff Passan
In an ideal universe for the Rays, Nick Martinez would’ve watched Game 4 from the dugout ahead of his start in Game 5 on Wednesday. But there is no Wednesday if Tampa Bay doesn’t win Game 4, so Martinez found himself on the mound in the sixth inning Tuesday. He did his job, working around Cooper Pratt’s two-out single to give the Rays three huge outs in his first relief appearance of the season.
Pitching out of the bullpen is far from foreign to Martinez. The 36-year-old right-hander bounced between rotations and bullpens across four seasons since returning from a four-year stint in Japan in 2022. The Rays signed him to a one-year, $13 million deal days before the start of spring training, intent on making him a full-time starter. He rewarded their trust with his first career All-Star nod.
On Tuesday, his versatility may prove crucial in keeping Tampa Bay’s season alive. -- Jorge Castillo