World Series 2026: Brewers erase early 4-run deficit to take 2-0 series lead in disaster game for Ra
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The Tampa Bay Rays had a dream start in Game 2 of the 2026 World Series. Everything after that was a nightmare.
After falling behind 4-0 in the top of the first inning, the Milwaukee Brewers scored five unanswered runs to stun Tampa Bay in a 5-4 win on Saturday. Milwaukee leads the series 2-0 as it heads to Tampa Bay.
Game 3 is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET Monday, with ALCS MVP Freddy Peralta taking the mound for the Rays and left-hander Robert Gasser pitching for the Brewers.
The Rays had every reason for confidence at the start of Game 2, based on what they did to Brewers rookie starting pitcher Logan Henderson. Yandy Díaz led off the game by reaching base on an error. Chandler Simpson and Junior Caminero each recorded RBI singles. Liam Hicks clubbed a two-run homer to make it 4-0 and silence American Family Field.
In his 25-start career entering Saturday, Henderson hadn't allowed more than three runs in a game. The Rays ended that streak in the span of five batters, though one of their runs was unearned.
Tampa Bay probably isn't getting a better setup in this series than a four-run lead with ace Drew Rasmussen on the mound. Those are the games you're supposed to — and need to — win. And yet …
The Brewers immediately got two runs back in the bottom of the first on hits by William Contreras and Garrett Mitchell. They pestered and prodded Rasmussen on nearly every at-bat, much like they have done against good pitchers all postseason, and ran his pitch count to 89 in only 3 2/3 innings of work.
Milwaukee got one more run back in the fourth inning on a Jonathan Aranda error and chased Rasmussen from the game when Jake Bauers drew a walk to load the bases. It was Rasmussen's shortest start since July 9, and it tied for his second-shortest start of 2026 between the regular season and postseason.
The Tampa Bay bullpen was rested after using none of its high-leverage arms in Game 1, but again, the Rays failed to take advantage. They instead made mistakes against a team built to punish mistakes.
The Rays could have scored a much-needed insurance run in the sixth, when Hicks led off with a hit-by-pitch (a painful one), then took second on a sacrifice bunt by Richie Palacios. Victor Mesa Jr. slapped a grounder into left field for a single, at which point Rays third-base coach Brady Williams gave Hicks the send home.
It was a terrible decision and the kind of choice a team makes when it is pressing. Hicks is quite literally the slowest player on the Rays , and the ball was in Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio's glove before Hicks had even touched third base.
The ball beat Hicks home by about 10 feet. The Rays challenged the play, arguing that Contreras had blocked the plate at home, but lost it. So their coaching staff managed to flub a single play twice.
In the bottom of the sixth, Sal Frelick tied the game with a solo homer off Rays left-hander Cam Booser.
That would be Sal Frelick, the Brewers' scrappy, low-power right fielder. Sal Frelick, who hadn't recorded a left-on-left homer since Opening Day. Sal Frelick, who hadn't hit a home run to that part of American Family Field in his four-year career .
The go-ahead run came one inning later, when Brice Turang led off the seventh with a double and scored on a single by rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt.
The Brewers' offense did what it has been doing since the start of the season. Rays pitchers combined to throw 184 pitches across eight innings, while Milwaukee logged 11 hits and five walks. The Brewers just kept coming, even against what could be the strongest pitching situation the Rays will have all series.
Similarly, the Brewers bullpen continued to dominate once Henderson left the game after three innings. JoJo Romero, Dustin May, DL Hall, Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby combined for six shutout innings.
Like in Game 1, the Rays threatened to tie the game in the top of the ninth, this time against Ashby. However, Ashby struck out Yandy Díaz to end the game with the tying run on third.
Ashby has now posted 15 2/3 shutout innings with 5 hits and 17 strikeouts this postseason. That's a pretty large reason Milwaukee is now two wins away from the first World Series title in franchise history.
Most of the other reasons were on display in Game 2 as well.
The Brewers have a 2-0 lead in the World Series. The action moves to Tampa for Game 3 on Monday.
Diaz strikes out swinging on a curveball in the dirt — and a questionable check-swing call — and that's game.
The Rays scored 4 runs in the first and never scored again. The Brewers came all the way back, and Aaron Ashby and the bullpen shut the door.
After working the count full, Williamson grounds out. That advances DeLuca to third.
Yandy Diaz is coming to the plate with the tying run on third and two outs.
Ben Williamson is pinch hitting for Taylor Walls.
Mesa strikes out on a check swing that wasn't, and that's one down.
DeLuca still on second with one out.
DeLuca hits a leadoff double, and the Rays have the tying run in scoring position.
Aaron Ashby is still on the mound to try to close out this game.
He'll face DeLuca, Mesa and Walls.
Turang lines out, and this game is headed to the ninth.
The Rays have 3 outs left and are down by 1 run.
Call is confirmed. Rays get the second out at home.
Milwaukee has runners on first and third with 2 outs. Steven Matz is coming in to replace Kevin Kelly.
After a double steal advances both runners, Contreras hits a grounder, ball goes home, and Chourio is called out.
But the Brewers are challenging the call.
Chourio singles, Bauers flies out and Yelich draws a walk.
The Brewers have runners on first and second with one out and are threatening for more.
Ashby gets Vilade and Palacios out, and that's the end of the Rays' half of the eighth.
Caminero grounds out, and that concludes Abner Uribe's night.
Aaron Ashby is in for the Brewers now. He pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings in Game 1.
Kevin Kelly gets out of the seventh inning with no further damage, but the Brewers bullpen is now six outs away from a 2-0 lead in the World Series.
And now Pratt steals second base after the ball pops out of Rays catcher Liam Hicks' hand.
Cooper Pratt singles in Brice Turang. The Brewers were down 4-0 before their first at-bat, and now they have the lead. What an outright disaster for Tampa Bay.
Garrett Mitchell hits a 384-foot fly ball to right field, but Victor Mesa Jr. catches it at the wall. That's still enough to move Turang to third with Cooper Pratt and Sal Frelick due up next.
Kevin Kelly enters to replace Tyler Wells.