When the Milwaukee Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in game one of the 122nd World Series tonight, they will be playing for more than just the right to hoist the sterling silver Commissioner’s Trophy after four wins. A rival museum’s Monet is also on the line.

The teams’ local art museums—the Milwaukee Art Museum , four miles east of where the Brewers play at American Family Field, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, just over a mile west of the Rays’ Tropicana Field—have entered into a friendly wager, wherein the winning city’s museums earns the right to borrow a Monet painting from the loser’s collection.

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The Milwaukee Art Museum is putting up Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect , ca. 1903, while the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, is offering Houses of Parliament: Effect of Fog, London, 1904.

According to MAM’s website, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect is the one and only Monet in its collection, is a visitor favorite, and is currently on view at the museum.…