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Brewers survive ninth-inning replay drama to beat Rays in Game 1

Replay showed shortstop Cooper Pratt's right foot slightly off the bag, overturning a game-ending double play and letting Tampa Bay score once before Milwaukee held on; a foot, apparently, decides things.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays three to two in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA ninth-inning double play was overturned on replay because shortstop Cooper Pratt's right foot was slightly off the bag.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA pinch-runner scored, and it was three to two with one out left.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThen Trevor Megill struck out Jonny DeLuca with runners on second and third to end it.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSlightly off the bag. A game decided by a foot that was basically on time, like me.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJacob Misiorowski opened with a one hundred three point five mile an hour fastball, the fastest recorded in a World Series since tracking began in two thousand eight.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFirst pitch, and the ball already had somewhere better to be.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChristian Yelich tripled in the first inning, and Milwaukee's sellout crowd was watching its first World Series game since nineteen eighty-two.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOutside, a hundred and ten fans stood around a giant screen in fifty-seven degrees.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA hundred and fifty more chose the bars, which is the smartest play of the night.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGame 2 comes next. The foot has been notified.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNina, you're live. Like, actually live.

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