Rays Outlast Brewers 4-3 in 12 Innings to Force Game 5

The Tampa Bay Rays are still alive. In a game that stretched 12 innings at Tropicana Field, Tampa Bay beat Milwaukee 4-3 on Tuesday night, denying the Brewers a sweep and sending the World Series to a Game 5.

For most of the night it looked like the script we sold: a tight, low-scoring game decided by pitching. Griffin Jax gave the Rays four innings, allowing two earned runs on four hits with six strikeouts and two walks, and Bryan Baker followed with two clean innings of relief. Milwaukee's bats never broke the game open, and the total stayed under.

How our picks fared

Moneyline — Brewers: LOSS. Milwaukee led early but could not close it out, and the Rays' rally in extras handed the Brewers their first defeat of the series.

Run line — Rays +1.5: WIN. The one-run final landed comfortably inside the number.

Total — Under: WIN. Twelve innings of baseball and still only seven combined runs — the under cashed with room to spare.

Props

Griffin Jax over 3.50 strikeouts: WIN. Six punchouts cleared the line by two and a half.

Griffin Jax over 11.50 outs: LOSS. Jax recorded 12 outs — four innings — a full inning short of the five we needed.

Griffin Jax over 3.50 hits allowed: WIN. Four hits allowed, just over the number.

Jake Bauers over 0.50 walks: LOSS. Bauers went 0-for-6 with a strikeout and did not draw a walk.

Takeaway

The strikeout and hit props on Jax held up; the outs prop was the miss, and it's a reminder that a pitcher's per-start average can hide a short leash in a win-or-go-home setting. The run line and under were the right side of a tight game, and that profile — low totals, one-run margins — is likely to repeat as this series continues.