Brewers and Rays face off in Game 2 of the World Series with control of the Fall Classic at stake

World Series Game 2: The Milwaukee Brewers took a 1-0 lead in the Fall Classic after holding off a late Tampa Bay Rays rally in Friday’s Game 1 and are looking to leave their home stadium with a commanding 2-0 lead.

Expect tension: The opening game of the series went all the way down to the final pitch as both teams played up to expectations. Expect more on Saturday from the league’s two top teams in the regular season.

Old-school baseball: Friday’s game hinged on key base hits, solid pitching, excellent fielding and crucial decisions on the basepaths. Both Milwaukee and Tampa Bay play a throwback style of baseball that is making for exciting drama.

First pitch: Game 2 gets started at 8 p.m. ET and is airing on Fox and streaming on Fox One and MLB.tv.

Why baseball teams party so hard and so often in October

At the end of this series, the final party will begin. It will be the last in a long line of them.

Every major US sport has multi-round postseason schedules, but none of them party like MLB teams. Locker room celebrations in the NFL tend to be subdued until the Super Bowl, and since hockey players are famously superstitious, popping bottles early is practically verboten in the NHL; the Stanley Cup is all that really matters.

Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager Tom McLaughlin has spent over 40 years with the Red Sox, and he says he’s lost track of how many celebrations he’s been involved in, but he counts them in the dozens. He told CNN Sports it was “pretty tame” when he started in the ‘80s, when the postseason was much shorter, but the back end of the season now can feel like one enormous bender for the most successful teams.

Clinched a playoff spot? Party.

Successfully navigate the wildcard round? Let’s get wild.

Made it through the Divisional Round? Get another round in.

Won the Championship Series? We’re going on a spree.

By the time a baseball club wins the World Series , let’s just say that the celebration will not be their first rodeo. Everyone will have had plenty of practice.

Some fun facts ahead of Game 2

How about some cool, fun factoids while No. 2 BYU tries to stave off a stunning upset by UCF in the college football world.

Friday’s Game 1 marked the first World Series opening game without a home run since 2000, according to Major League Baseball.

If both teams don’t hit it out of the park tonight, it will be the first time without a homer in Game’s 1 and 2 since 1985. So … no pressure to the Brewers and Rays.

Per MLB, history is on the Brewers’ side following their Game 1 win.

The home team has gone 381-324 in 705 World Series Game 2’s. The team with home advantage has went on to the Fall Classic 60 times, including three of the last four years.

Our on-the-field report from Game 1

CNN Sports’ Andy Scholes broke down Game 1 from the field after the game, watch here:

CNN's Andy Scholes reports from the American Family Field where the Milwaukee Brewers won Game 1 against the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2.

Tale of the tape: Meet the two starting pitchers

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Game 2 of the World Series will feature Drew Rasmussen of the Tampa Bay Rays and rookie sensation Logan Henderson for the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.

Rasmussen, the 31-year-old ace, has been lights out this season, posting 16-5 record with a 2.67 ERA in the regular season. He has also been dominant in the postseason, taking a no-hitter into the 8th inning against the Yankees in Game 1 of the American League Divisional Series along with a Game 5 win against the Guardians in the American League Championship Series.

However, it will be a bit of a homecoming for Rasmussen tonight after being drafted by the Brewers in the sixth round in the 2018 MLB draft. He was later traded to the Rays in 2021 and has shined ever since.

The 24-year-old Henderson has been an anomaly this season for the Brew Crew.

He went 11-3 with a 2.47 ERA and 110 strikeouts and hasn’t lost a game at American Family Field yet, with a record of 8-0 in 10 starts at home.

The Brewers have been mindful of Henderson’s innings this postseason due to injuries but the team is 2-0 in his starts against the Padres in the National League Divisional Series and Dodgers in the National League Championship Series

Catch up on last night

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Here’s what you missed if you skipped Game 1 on Friday.

The Brewers offense came out swinging in the first inning Friday night, touching Rays starting pitcher Nick Martinez for a pair of runs on a triple by Christian Yelich followed by a single from William Contreras.

Milwaukee leaned on its flame-throwing ace Jacob Misiorowski, who made those two runs stand up as he worked five innings and earned his first career postseason win as a starter.

The Rays cut the Brewers’ lead in half in the fourth inning with an RBI groundout from catcher Liam Hicks, but the Miz was able to avoid any further damage and stranded the tying run on third base to hold the score at 2-1.

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Milwaukee added to its lead in the seventh inning with a clutch, two-out single from left fielder Jackson Chourio to drive in Cooper Pratt and tack on a much-needed insurance run to make the score 3-1.

After stellar bullpen work from Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby, Brewers manager Pat Murphy handed the ball over to star closer Trevor Megill for the ninth inning.

The Rays were not ready to go quietly into the Wisconsin night, and back-to-back one-out singles from Jonathan Aranda and Chandler Simpson brought Tampa Bay’s All-Star slugger Junior Caminero to the plate representing the go-ahead run. After getting a fortunate call on a check swing that looked like it might have been strike three, Caminero drew a walk to load the bases.

Hicks then appeared to ground into an game-ending 4-6-3 double play, and the fireworks went off as the Brewers shook hands on the infield grass.

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But the Rays challenged the call on the field, and on replay review, it was determined that Brewers shortstop Pratt took his foot off second base an instant too soon. The double play was overturned and pinch-runner Jorge Mateo scored to make the score 3-2 with one more out left to go.

With the smoke from the fireworks still hanging in the air, Megill gathered his composure and struck out Jonny DeLuca with a nasty breaking ball to end the game.

Game 1 kept us on the edge of our seats until the final pitch, and there’s no reason to expect Game 2 to be any different.

This World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers was always expected to be tight and produce a ton of drama, and we got that in spades in the opening round. With American Family Field in Milwaukee expected to be raucous once again, more of the same seems to be on tap tonight.

The Rays will start their ace, Drew Rasmussen, in Game 2 against Milwaukee’s rookie star Logan Henderson.

Follow along with us here as we bring you instant analysis, reporting from American Family Field and all the highlights you need to see.

The game is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET and is airing on Fox and streaming on Fox One and MLB.tv.

世界大赛第二场：密尔沃基酿酒人队在周五的第一场比赛中顶住了坦帕湾光芒队的最后反扑，以 1-0 领先世界大赛，他们希望带着 2-0 的绝对优势离开主场。

预计比赛将十分激烈：系列赛首战双方鏖战至最后一球才分出胜负，两队均发挥出色，符合预期。周六，这两支常规赛排名前列的球队将会带来更多精彩表现。

老派棒球：周五的比赛胜负的关键在于关键的安打、稳定的投球、出色的守备以及跑垒上的关键决策。密尔沃基酿酒人队和坦帕湾光芒队都采用了复古的​​棒球风格，这使得比赛更加扣人心弦。

首球：第二场比赛将于美国东部时间晚上 8 点开始，在 Fox 电视台播出，并在 Fox One 和 MLB.tv 上进行流媒体播放。

为什么棒球队在十月份如此频繁、如此疯狂地庆祝？

本系列节目结束后，将举行最终派对。这将是众多派对中的最后一次。

美国各大体育联盟的季后赛都有多轮赛程，但没有哪个联盟的庆祝方式能像MLB球队那样热闹。NFL的更衣室庆祝活动通常要等到超级碗才会热闹起来，而NHL的冰球运动员出了名的迷信，所以提前开香槟庆祝几乎是禁忌；对他们来说，斯坦利杯才是最重要的。

波士顿红袜队更衣室经理汤姆·麦克劳克林在红袜队工作了40多年，他说自己已经记不清参与过多少次庆祝活动了，但肯定有几十次之多。他告诉CNN体育频道，在他80年代刚入职时，季后赛的庆祝场面“相当平静”，因为那时的季后赛赛程远比现在短，但如今，对于那些最成功的球队来说，赛季末的庆祝活动简直就像一场狂欢。

锁定季后赛席位了？庆祝一下！

成功闯过外卡赛？让我们尽情狂欢吧！

通过了分区赛？那就再来一轮！

赢得了总冠军？我们要好好庆祝一番。

当一支棒球队赢得世界大赛冠军时，可以肯定地说，他们的庆祝活动绝非初次上演。每个人都已经积累了丰富的经验。

第二场比赛前的一些趣闻

在大学橄榄球界，排名第二的杨百翰大学正努力避免被中佛罗里达大学爆冷击败，让我们一起来了解一些有趣的小知识吧。

据美国职业棒球大联盟称，周五的第一场比赛是自 2000 年以来世界大赛首场比赛没有出现本垒打。

如果今晚两队都没有击出本垒打，这将是自1985年以来首次出现前两场比赛都没有本垒打的情况。所以……酿酒人和光芒队没有压力。

根据美国职业棒球大联盟（MLB）的说法，酿酒人队在第一场比赛获胜后，历史形势对他们有利。

在705场世界大赛第二场比赛中，主队战绩为381胜324负。拥有主场优势的球队共60次晋级世界大赛，其中包括最近四年中的三年。

我们从第一场比赛现场发回的报道

CNN体育频道的安迪·斯科尔斯在赛后从​​现场对第一场比赛进行了分析，点击此处观看：

CNN记者安迪·斯科尔斯从美国家庭球场报道，密尔沃基酿酒人队以3比2战胜坦帕湾光芒队，赢得了第一场比赛。

双方实力对比：两位先发投手的情况介绍

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世界大赛第二场比赛将于周六举行，由坦帕湾光芒队的德鲁·拉斯穆森对阵密尔沃基酿酒人队的新秀洛根·亨德森。

31岁的王牌投手拉斯穆森本赛季表现出色，常规赛战绩为16胜5负，防御率仅为2.67。他在季后赛中同样统治级，在美联分区系列赛第一场对阵洋基队的比赛中，他投出了前八局无安打的成绩，并在美联冠军系列赛第五场对阵守护者队的比赛中取得了胜利。

不过，今晚对拉斯穆森来说也算是一次“回家之旅”，因为他在2018年美国职棒大联盟选秀中被酿酒人队在第六轮选中。之后他在2021年被交易到光芒队，此后一直表现出色。

24岁的亨德森本赛季一直是酿酒人队的一个异类。

他的战绩为 11 胜 3 负，防御率为 2.47，三振数为 110 次，并且在美国家庭球场至今未尝败绩，主场 10 次先发取得 8 胜 0 负的战绩。

由于伤病原因，酿酒人队在本赛季季后赛中一直很注意亨德森的投球局数，但他在国联分区系列赛对阵教士队和国联冠军系列赛对阵道奇队的比赛中，在他先发的两场比赛中都取得了2胜0负的战绩。

补看昨晚的节目

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如果你错过了周五的第一场比赛，以下是你错过的精彩内容。

周五晚上，酿酒人队的进攻在第一局就火力全开，克里斯蒂安·耶利奇击出三垒安打，随后威廉·孔特雷拉斯又击出一垒安打，从光芒队先发投手尼克·马丁内斯手中拿下两分。

密尔沃基依靠其王牌投手雅各布·米西奥罗夫斯基，他投满五局，守住了这两分，并赢得了他作为先发投手的职业生涯季后赛首胜。

第四局，光芒队凭借捕手利亚姆·希克斯的打点滚地球将酿酒人队的领先优势缩小了一半，但米兹成功避免了进一步的损失，并将追平比分的跑者留在三垒上，将比分保持在 2-1。

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密尔沃基在第七局凭借左外野手杰克逊·乔里奥在两出局的情况下击出的关键安打，将库珀·普拉特送回本垒，并拿下急需的保险分，将比分改写为 3-1，从而扩大了领先优势。

在阿布纳·乌里韦和阿伦·阿什比的出色牛棚投球表现之后，酿酒人队主教练帕特·墨菲将球交给了明星终结者特雷弗·梅吉尔，让他投第九局。

光芒队并不甘心就此在威斯康星的夜色中落败，乔纳森·阿兰达和钱德勒·辛普森连续击出一垒安打，将坦帕湾全明星强棒小卡米内罗送上打击区，这场比赛他们有机会反超比分。卡米内罗挥棒落空，看似要被判三振出局，但裁判却幸运地判罚保送，垒上满垒。

随后，希克斯似乎击出了一记结束比赛的 4-6-3 双杀球，当酿酒人队在内场草坪上握手时，烟花绽放。

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但光芒队对场上判罚提出挑战，经录像回放，判定酿酒人队游击手普拉特提前一瞬间将脚从二垒上移开。双杀判罚被取消，代跑球员豪尔赫·马特奥得分，比分变为3比2，比赛还剩一人出局。

烟花燃放的烟雾还弥漫在空中，梅吉尔稳住阵脚，用一记刁钻的曲球三振了乔尼·德卢卡，结束了比赛。

第一场比赛让我们一直紧张到最后一球，没有理由期待第二场比赛会有什么不同。

坦帕湾光芒队和密尔沃基酿酒人队之间的世界大赛一直被认为会是一场势均力敌、扣人心弦的较量，而首轮比赛就充分印证了这一点。预计密尔沃基的美国家庭球场今晚将再次沸腾，同样的精彩场面似乎也将上演。

光芒队将在第二场比赛中派出他们的王牌投手德鲁·拉斯穆森迎战密尔沃基的新秀球星洛根·亨德森。

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比赛定于美国东部时间晚上 8 点开始，将在 Fox 电视台播出，并在 Fox One 和 MLB.tv 上进行流媒体播放。