Brewers Take 2-0 Lead

The BrewersMilwaukee Brewersbaseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States beat the RaysTampa Bay Raysbaseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States 5-4 in Game 2, to take a 2-0 World Series lead. Tampa Bay scored four runs in the first inning, but Milwaukee erased the deficit for its seventh postseason comeback win. Sal FrelickSal FrelickAmerican baseball player tied the game with a solo homer in the sixth, and Cooper Pratt’s seventh-inning single drove in the go-ahead run. In the ninth, first-base umpire Jim Wolf ruled Yandy DíazYandy DíazCuban professional baseball player swung at a full-count pitch, ending the game with the tying run at third. Díaz disagreed, while Rays manager Kevin Cash said it looked like a swing. Game 3 is Monday in St. Petersburg, with former Brewers pitcher Freddy Peralta starting for Tampa Bay.