The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions. They beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday night, which Sportsnet describes as the franchise's first title. ESPN framed it as the end of a 57-year drought.

Shortstop Cooper Pratt was the key hitter. Sportsnet's highlight package says he had two hits and drove in two runs. The first came in the second inning, when his RBI single scored Brice Turang. In the sixth, William Contreras hit a long double that scored Christian Yelich, and Contreras then came home on Pratt's sacrifice fly. That made it 4-0. MLB's own Reddit highlight tagged the sacrifice fly as Pratt's seventh RBI of the World Series. Pratt played only 74 games this season, hitting .281 with 34 RBI, so a series run like that is a lot to come from a player with a short regular-season sample.

On the mound, Jacob Misiorowski went five-plus innings and allowed two hits, per Sportsnet. His regular season was 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA and 252 strikeouts in 174.2 innings, and he gave the Brewers the same kind of start here. The feeds don't say how the Rays got their one run or who finished the game. MLB's Reddit account marked the moment Milwaukee was three outs from the title.

The Brewers went 103-59 to win the NL Central. Tampa Bay won the AL East at 98-64. Our logs show how tight the stretch was. Milwaukee won 10-1 on Monday, lost 4-3 on Tuesday, then took the clincher Wednesday. The Rays' win Tuesday was the only thing that delayed the celebration by a day.

MLB.com's Zach Sweet gathered reaction from fans, headlined with the line "I've waited my whole life for this." The feed gives only that headline, so we can't say more about who said it or what else was said.

One loose end is that our schedule still lists games at Milwaukee on Oct. 30 and 31 as not started. Every outlet reporting the game describes the series as over. The clincher also ran about a night past what the archive implies, so we'd treat those listings as placeholders until they are cleared. Nothing in the reporting we have points to another game, or to a parade or ceremony date.