World Series Game 5 score, live updates: Brewers go for first title (again); Rays try to stay alive (again)

With the World Series title on the line again, the Milwaukee Brewers will once again try to take down the Tampa Bay Rays and secure the franchise's first championship.

The Brewers failed to complete the sweep on Tuesday and were walked off in extra innings in a Game 4 loss. In Game 5, they'll send ace Jacob Misiorowski to the mound to try to shut things down.

The Rays, meanwhile, will counter with Drew Rasmussen on short rest. Rasmussen was 16-5 with a 2.67 ERA in the regular season and had been great on the American League side of the bracket. In his Game 2 start in the World Series, however, he allowed three earned runs on six hits in 3 ⅔ innings. Further, Rasmussen's career numbers on short rest are brutal. Small sample caveats apply, and the World Series is a different animal entirely, but in four short-rest starts in his career, he's allowed five earned runs on nine hits in seven innings. He hasn't started on short rest since 2024.

As a reminder, no team in World Series history has ever blown a 3-0 lead. If we expanded the search to the entire postseason, only the 2004 Red…

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