After 58 seasons, the Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions. Jacob Misiorowski threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings, rookie Cooper Pratt drove in two runs and the Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday night at Tropicana Field to win the Series four games to one.

It is the first title in franchise history, and it came one night after the Rays had kept Milwaukee from clinching with a 12-inning walk-off in Game 4. Details here come from WISN/AP, Baseball-Reference and MLB.com.

How the clincher unfolded

Milwaukee scratched out its runs the way it has all season, with contact and pressure. Pratt singled in Brice Turang in the second inning for a 1-0 lead. In the fifth, Pratt reached again and scored on David Hamilton’s single to make it 2-0.

The Brewers put it away in the sixth. Christian Yelich was hit by a pitch, William Contreras doubled to left to score him, Turang singled Contreras to third and Pratt lifted a sacrifice fly to bring him home for a 4-0 lead.

Tampa Bay did not score until the ninth, when Chandler Simpson doubled to drive in Liam Hicks. Trevor Megill finished the final two innings, and the Brewers survived two errors to close it out. The Rays managed just four hits. The crowd at Tropicana Field was 40,489.

Misiorowski’s night

Misiorowski, who set a World Series velocity record with a 103.5 mph pitch in Game 1, opened with 12 straight four-seam fastballs between roughly 101 and 103 mph. He allowed two hits and a walk over 5 2/3 innings on 86 pitches before leaving with a right calf cramp, earning a standing ovation from the Milwaukee fans who had packed the section behind the visitors’ dugout.

“I don’t even have words,” Misiorowski said. “It’s amazing, just watching my guys celebrate.”

JoJo Romero and Abner Uribe each recorded two outs before Megill took over.

Contreras named MVP

Catcher William Contreras was voted World Series MVP, becoming the eighth catcher to win the award. MLB.com reported he went 8-for-21 with four RBIs in the Series and threw out four of nine runners who tried to steal against him.

Pratt, a 22-year-old shortstop who debuted in June, set a World Series rookie record with hits in six straight at-bats. Jackson Chourio set a record for a five-game Series with 11 hits.

“This is one of the greatest moments of my life,” Pratt said. “It only took four months!”

A long wait ends

The franchise began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and moved to Milwaukee the next year. Its only previous World Series trip, in 1982, ended in a Game 7 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals after the Brewers blew a lead late. Milwaukee’s only previous MLB title came in 1957, when the city was home to the Braves.

“I know the city’s waited a long, long time for this,” captain Christian Yelich said. “We’re so happy to bring it home to them.”

Manager Pat Murphy, 67, who survived a heart attack in 2020 and was named NL Manager of the Year in 2024 and 2025, finished the job with a team that led the majors with 103 regular-season wins and went 11-2 in the postseason, including a sweep of the Dodgers in the NLCS.

For the Rays

Tampa Bay had a strong season of its own and won the American League pennant, but its offense never got going in the clincher. Starter Drew Rasmussen, working on short rest, held Milwaukee to one run over four innings before the bullpen allowed three more.

The bottom line

Small-market, small-ball and now champions: the Brewers capped a 103-win season with the most important win in franchise history. Milwaukee can start planning the parade.

Image: Miller Park 2018 by Kyvuh via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0