Cooper Pratt Battles It Out for Brewers Collective to Take World Series Game 2 Milwaukee wears down Tampa Bay’s pitchers for a thrilling 5-4 victory and 2-0 series lead. Sports Illustrated · 12h ago
Comeback Crew: Brewers Erase Another Early Deficit to Stun the Rays in Game 2 After an impressive turnaround in Game 2, the Brewers now have seven comeback wins during this postseason. Sports Illustrated · 19h ago
The Curveball, the Comeback and the Calm of Aaron Ashby The Brewers’ standout reliever has pitched 14 scoreless innings in the playoffs. Ashby has come a long way from Crowder College and early MLB struggles. Sports Illustrated · Oct 24
The Rays’ Bad Decisions Doomed Them in Game 1 of the World Series Tampa Bay’s costly baserunning decisions needlessly squandered scoring opportunities and helped hand Milwaukee a 3–2 victory in Friday’s Fall Classic opener. Sports Illustrated · Oct 24
Brewers Think They’ve Solved Jacob Misiorowski’s Biggest October Issue Milwaukee’s ace hasn’t had the best version of his fastball in the playoffs, but the coaching staff found a solution ahead of Friday’s World Series opener. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
SI:AM | App State Ends James Madison’s Perfect Season in First Big CFP Twist The Dukes’ dramatic overtime loss will have major playoff implications for the rest of the Group of 6. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
Brewers vs. Rays: World Series Predictions, MVP Picks, X-Factors and More Either Milwaukee or Tampa Bay will emerge with its first World Series in franchise history by the end of the month. Here’s how we see it playing out. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
Ranking All 52 Players in the 2026 World Series Ranking every player in the 2026 World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers, from the biggest stars to the unsung heroes who could make a difference. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
How the Brewers and Rays Built Their World Series Rosters Neither of these two World Series teams are big spenders when it comes to payroll, but they’ve still managed to build impressive rosters. Sports Illustrated · Oct 22
SI:AM | Angel Reese Shines Again as the Dream Take Game 3 The Atlanta star recorded another double-double in a blowout win over the Valkyries. Sports Illustrated · Oct 22
The Nine Key Factors That Will Swing the 2026 World Series From the Rays’ changeups to Jackson Chourio’s plate discipline, here’s what Tom Verducci thinks will decide the Fall Classic. Sports Illustrated · Oct 22
The Rays and Brewers Perfected a Blueprint for Beating Baseball’s Big Spenders Tampa Bay and Milwaukee built World Series contenders without massive payrolls, proving baseball's best teams were hiding in plain sight all season. Sports Illustrated · Oct 22
Comparing the Brewers and Rays’ Payrolls With Other Sports’ Championship Teams Here’s how the Brewers and Rays payrolls stack up against previous World Series teams, as well as championship squads from other major North American sports. Sports Illustrated · Oct 21
The Hidden Problem With Jacob Misiorowski’s Fastball The Brewers ace has seen his fastball hit far more often in the playoffs despite an increase in velocity. What gives? Sports Illustrated · Oct 21
Sports Illustrated · Oct 21 Rays vs. Brewers: Five Bold Predictions for the 2026 World Series How will the likes of Jacob Misiorowski, Freddy Peralta, Junior Caminero and Jake Bauers fare in the Fall Classic?
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 Aaron Boone Must Change the Yankees’ Culture to Take the Next Step “Run it back” is a phrase Yankees fans have heard far too many times over the last few years. And it’s one they’ll be hearing again as it relates to the manager
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 Why Some Brewers Fans Are Upset With Team’s Unique ‘Timeless Tickets’ Before World Series The Brewers had a special ticket promotion back in 2015 that is allowing some fans to go to the World Series this year. But it’s a little complicated.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 SI:AM | What Makes the Rays-Brewers World Series Matchup Unique Tampa Bay finished off the Guardians in Game 6 to win their third pennant in franchise history. Now it’ll face Milwaukee in a meeting of teams that have never won a World Series.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 Every Team’s Most Consequential Managerial Mistake of the MLB Playoffs The logic may have seemed sound in the moment, but these decisions came back to haunt the 10 eliminated playoff teams.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 How the Brewers Are Preventing Late-Inning Comebacks Milwaukee’s pitching staff has allowed just one run from the seventh inning onward in its eight postseason games.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 Rays Bring the Guardians Back to Reality, Book a Trip to the World Series Tampa Bay won the American League pennant by shutting down the Guardians’ offense and exposing the weaknesses that plagued them all season.
AAP · Oct 20 Bazzana's dream MLB debut over as Rays beat Guardians Australian baseball's young gun Travis Bazzana has helped spark a late Cleveland rally, but Tampa Bay beat them 7-3 in game six to reach the World Series.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 19 SI:AM | A Good Day for Some NFL Bottom-Feeders Week 6 was a reminder that any team can win any game in the NFL.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 19 Four Big-Picture Lessons From the MLB Playoffs So Far This article is a part of Verducci’s View, a new weekly baseball newsletter from Sports Illustrated senior writer Tom Verducci. Every Monday, Tom empties out hi
Sports Illustrated · Oct 19 Drew Rasmussen Is Challenging Everything We Know About the Rays Tampa Bay’s ace is being trusted to push beyond the modern boundaries of postseason pitcher usage that his own franchise popularized.