Jayson Stark
@jaysonst
Baseball writer at @TheAthleticMLB. Starkville pod. MLB Net. Winner of 2019 BBWAA Career Excellence Award. Launched hot dogs with the Phanatic. Now on Blue Sky
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@CodyStavenhagen @WillSammon Oh, and I also wrote! I took you inside the wild numbers behind the Brewers’ epic October
Here’s more great World Series work from our incredible site
@CodyStavenhagen made me cry with this beautiful piece on those Brewers fans who didn’t live to see this, but their family members found ways to share it anyway
@WillSammon has a wonderful look at Christian Yelich
Oh, and I also wrote! And took you inside the wild numbers behind the Brewers’ special October
And all these links are unlocked and free to read
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I love great baseball writing. There is so much of it in @TheAthleticMLB today that I felt so lucky to call these folks my friends and teammates.
@Ken_Rosenthal on the Brewers’ special “way”
@TylerKepner’s awesome take on the Miz
@ByMcCullough on how the Brewers chased Skubal, came up short and got the best last laugh ever
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David Hamilton in the regular season:
1 HR after June 6
David Hamilton in the postseason:
2 HR in the last 5 games
Here it is, maybe your last BP scene of 2026.
World Series Game 4 at the Trop.
Might be a while until the next round of BP. So enjoy it while we still have baseball games to watch
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The Brewers didn’t need a comeback to win Game 3. They got one anyway from Brandon Woodruff. On the resilience of the Forever Brewer:
7 straight two-out hits?
8 straight two-out runs?
5 runs in a span of 8 pitches?
Six runs in a span of 13 pitches?
The Brewers' 5th inning in Game 3 was what you call Weird & Wild column material. So ...
How historic was it? You're welcome!
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Jackson Chourio at age 22:
It's his first World Series.
He's 7 for 12!
Seems good.
The Brewers just sprang the first two-run inning (or more) against Freddy Peralta in more than 2 months.
The last one before this was a 3-run fifth inning by the Orioles on Aug. 20.
That was 53 innings ago.
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Chandler Simpson was 5-for-5 stealing bases in this postseason before he overslid second last inning.
Last to go 6-for-6? Who else: Christian Walker in 2023.
Last to go 7-for-7: Carl Crawford, for the 2008 Rays.
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Fun twist on the first pitch at the Trop.
Former manager Joe Maddon trots toward the mound, stops and signals for the right-hander...
James Shields.
Who promptly misses the strike zone with his pitch by 7 feet.
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Very cool giant-flag sighting here at the Trop.
World Series game 3. Let's go!
“Who makes the win probability?”
“It's a mathematical formula”
"I don't think these guys care about math”
Only one other team in postseason history has pulled off the same comeback magic trick as these Brewers
I asked them how they're doing this
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On Sal Frelick, the pride of Boston College, and the big blast that echoed all the way back to Chestnut Hill
“Nobody in this clubhouse wants to play the baseball we’ve played the last couple of days. That’s not who we are.” The Rays, steady and composed all season, are unraveling on the World Series stage. Column, unlocked and free to read.
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Bob Uecker’s spirit hangs over a bittersweet Brewers World Series
“When you think about Milwaukee, you immediately associate it with Bob Uecker. It’s the Brewers, and it’s Bob Uecker.”
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“Who makes the win probability?”
“It's a mathematical formula”
"I don't think these guys care about math”
Only one other team in postseason history has pulled off the same comeback magic trick as these Brewers
I asked them how they're doing this
Unlocked & free to read
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Sal Frelick during the last two regular seasons:
272 LH pitchers faced, 1 HR
Sal Frelick in the sixth inning:
Stunning game-tying HR against a LH pitcher (Ian Seymour).
It's five minutes since that ball landed, and this ballpark is still shaking.
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The @Brewers and @RaysBaseball combined for 7 hits in the 1st inning tonight - tied for the most combined hits in the 1st inning of any World Series game all-time.
So this was the highest-scoring first inning of a WS game since the fabled 15-14 game in 1993.
Most combined runs in first inning of a World Series game:
1958 G2: 8
1993 G4: 7
2026 G2: 6
1960 G3: 6
1945 G7: 6
1912 G7: 6
