Brewers rout Rays in Game 3, 1 win from first World Series title - ESPN

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang sparked Milwaukee's eight-run fifth inning, and the Brewers routed the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 on Monday night to move within one victory of their first World Series title.

Rookie left-hander Robert Gasser pitched one-hit ball and faced the minimum through six innings as Milwaukee rolled to a 3-0 lead in the Series. Game 4 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, where many Brewers fans showed up Monday and cheered from behind the visitors dugout.

Gasser allowed a line-drive single to Yandy Diaz leading off the bottom of the first and then retired 14 straight before Victor Mesa Jr. walked to start Tampa Bay's sixth. Gasser became the first left-hander to face the minimum 18 batters through six innings of a World Series game since Sandy Koufax did it for the Dodgers in 1965.

Chourio went 4-for-5, William Contreras was 3-for-5 and Milwaukee racked up 16 hits off «Fastball Freddy» Peralta and five relievers to win its eighth straight postseason game and fourth in a row on the road.

Of the 43 previous major league teams to fall behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven postseason series, only the 2004 Boston Red Sox rallied to win four straight when they beat the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.

Gasser became the first starter for Milwaukee to get an out in the sixth inning this postseason. He has allowed one run in 15 innings over three starts, all on the road.

Peralta, the MVP of the ALCS against Cleveland, ran out of gas against the Brewers. He was charged with five runs and seven hits in 4⅔ innings against his former team.

After a pair of tense, down-to-the-final-pitch, one-run games in Milwaukee, the Brewers put this one out of reach in the fifth with a