NewzThe Rays beat the Guardians 7-3 in Game 6 of the ALCS to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise's 29 seasons. Tampa Bay beats Cleveland to punch its ticket to face Milwaukee in the Fall Classic. Tampa Bay beat Guardians to seal ALCS in six games7-3 Game 6 win set up by strong Freddy Peralta startFreddy Peralta threw 5.1 gritty innings, Junior Caminero and Yandy Díaz each hit a two-run homer and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise’s 29 seasons.The Rays will face the Milwaukee Brewers who, like Tampa Bay, are seeking to win their first-ever World Series.
A sellout crowd of 40,230 fans waved yellow-and-blue rally towels, rang cowbells and chanted “Let’s go Rays!” throughout the night at Tropicana Field, which needed major renovations after Hurricane Milton shredded the roof two years ago and caused extensive damage throughout the stadium. The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians in Game 6 of the ALCS for their third pennant and will meet the Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series. The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays will play a Suds vs.
Sun World Series that will produce a first-time champion and likely baseball's first all-indoor championship.The best-of-seven showdown between low-payroll pennant winners opens Friday night in Milwaukee. It'll be the first World Series between title-less teams since the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals in 1980.One city is known for the television sitcom “ Laverne & Shirley," the home of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, cheeseheads and breweries that have included Miller, Pabst and Schlitz. The other is a vacation destination featuring warm weather, beaches and art museums.Just five of the current 30 teams have never won a title, with Colorado, San Diego and Seattle also ringless.“The city is ready.
I know that the fans are ready, and I know that we’ll be ready,” said Milwaukee's Jake Bauers, MVP of the four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series.Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski heads the pitchers with his 100 mph-plus heat, and each team features a dynamic 22-year-old anchoring the lineup: Jackson Chourio of the Brewers and Junior Caminero of the Rays. Tampa Bay's Freddy Peralta and Drew Rasmussen could pitch against their former teams.The Brewers started as the expansion Seattle Pilots in 1969, then were bought by Bud Selig's group in bankruptcy court and moved to Milwaukee for the 1970 season. The team's only Series trip was a seven-game loss to St.
Louis in the 1982 Suds Series, back when the Brewers were in the American League.Tampa Bay, which defeated Cleveland in six games for the AL pennant, launched as the expansion Devil Rays in 1998 and dropped the “Devil” ahead of the 2008 season. The team's two Series appearances ended with losses to Philadelphia in 2008 and the Dodgers in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.Best face each other for 6th time in wild-card eraThis will be only the sixth time since the start of the wild-card era in 1995 that teams with the top records in each league meet in the World Series after Atlanta-Cleveland (1995), New York Yankees-Braves (1999), Boston-St. Louis (2013), Dodgers-Rays (2020) and Dodgers-Yankees (2024).Two low-payroll teams in Series for first time in 35 yearsMilwaukee had MLB’s 19th-highest payroll as of Aug.
Tampa Bay was 25th.Not since 1991 had both pennant winners been among the bottom 50% in player… Tampa Bay will face the Milwaukee Brewers in the Fall Classic, with both teams vying for their first World Series title
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