Cooper Pratt turned a rough start into the biggest swing of the night, driving in the go-ahead run with an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh as the Brewers erased a 4-0 deficit and beat the Rays 5-4 in World Series Game 2. The win gave the Brewers a 2-0 series lead.
Pratt had started the game with an error on the first play, a mistake that helped put the Brewers in an early hole before they fought back. By the end of the night, the same player who had helped create the mess was the one who helped finish the comeback, a sequence that fit the game’s wild turn and the way Milwaukee kept pushing after the first inning went wrong.
Pat Murphy said Pratt was “super tough on right-handers” and praised the at-bat that produced the key hit. He said the club had spent a lot of time on that reliever and how to attack him, and that Pratt put together “a great at-bat” while showing young players that “the game doesn’t start a certain way, doesn’t mean it has to end that way.”
Murphy also tied the comeback to a broader belief inside the Brewers' dugout. He said the team did not give up, even after falling behind 4-0 in the first inning, and he pointed to William Contreras’ RBI single as a huge at-bat that helped the rally gain traction. He added that Sal Frelick had four quality at-bats and hit four balls on the screws, another sign that the lineup kept pressing against a strong opponent.
That first inning still shaped everything that followed. Murphy said Logan Henderson gave up four runs, three earned, and looked a little jittery again early, but the Brewers steadied from there and kept the game within reach long enough for the late push to matter. Aaron Ashby then finished the last 1 2/3 innings, which Murphy said reminded him of Goose Gossage and Rollie Fingers, a comparison that fit the night’s old-school feel.
The result leaves the Brewers in firm control of World Series Game 2, but the larger lesson may be about how they won it. A player who stumbled on the first play of the game came back to decide it, and that kind of response is the reason a 4-0 hole became a 2-0 series lead.
