Brewers take exciting Game 1 for a lead in the World Series (1:10)

Jorge Castillo Oct 24, 2026, 01:45 AM ET

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ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.

MILWAUKEE -- The Tampa Bay Rays ' brand of baseball, an aggressive style designed to apply constant pressure on opponents, backfired Friday in Game 1 of the World Series with two costly baserunning miscues in a 3-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers .

But the Rays don't plan on changing the approach that landed them in the World Series for the third time in franchise history.

"That's us," Rays left fielder Chandler Simpson said. "We can't run away from that because that's who we are. Just because we got stopped a couple of times on the basepaths, we can't shy away from that. Not now, at the end. We just got to continue to go forward.…