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Brewers win first World Series game in 44 years after replay overturns apparent final out

Fireworks had already fired when review cut lead to 3-2, first Series between two titleless teams since 1980

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The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night at American Family Field, their first World Series game win since 1982. The victory survived a replay review that overturned the apparent final out — after the fireworks had already been fired.

Trailing 3-1 with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth, Tampa Bay watched Liam Hicks ground into what was ruled a game-ending double play. Replay showed Brewers shortstop Cooper Pratt's right foot slightly off second base when he caught the throw from second baseman Brice Turang; the call was overturned, the score became 3-2, and Rays runners stood on second and third with two outs. Milwaukee had already ignited its fireworks, leaving a fog-filled stadium to wait through one more batter. Trevor Megill struck out Jonny DeLuca to end it.

The Brewers built their lead in the first inning on Christian Yelich's RBI triple and a follow-up single from William Contreras, who also threw out two would-be base stealers. Jacob Misiorowski allowed one run over five innings and earned the win. In the seventh, David Hamilton advanced a runner with a productive out and Jackson Chourio drove him in with an opposite-field ground-ball single — no team in the league hit more opposite-field grounders during the regular season.

The game carried more history than one drought. It was the first World Series between two teams without a title since 1980, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Kansas City Royals in six games. The only franchises still without a championship are the Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners; one of this year's participants will come off that list, and the sellout crowd in Milwaukee watched a Game 1 winner — a position that has gone on to take the series 62.8 percent of the time.

Logan Henderson starts for Milwaukee on Saturday against Tampa Bay's Drew Rasmussen. The fireworks are already spent.