Brewers vs. Rays prediction: Expect early scoring in World Series Game 3
The small-market World Series has provided plenty of entertainment through two games.We’ve seen a pair of one-run games go down to the wire already and as Game 3 shifts to Tropicana Field Monday night we can expect chess match.The Brewers will send arguably their hottest pitcher, Robert Gasser, to the mound for a crucial road start.
The Rays will counter with their hottest pitcher, ALCS MVP Freddy Peralta, who will need to keep up his postseason form to get Tampa back into the series.Oddsmakers have left the Rays for dead based on the series odds.
FanDuel Sportsbook lists the Brewers as -660 favorites to win the series entering Game 3 and the Rays are +500.For Game 3, the Rays are -120 favorites with the Over/Under sitting at 6.5 total runs.
It’s understandable that books have so much faith in the Brewers to close out this series.It has been 30 years since a team has come back from an 0-2 deficit in the World Series and only 10 teams have ever done it.They Brewers continue to prove that they can pick up a win regardless of the circumstances.
When they had a lead in the top of the ninth inning in Game 1, they were able to absorb an overturned double-play that scored a run and survive a late Rays rally.When they trailed by four runs in the bottom of the first inning of Game 2, they wasted no time chipping away at the lead with runs in the first, fourth, sixth and seventh.
Both offenses have been aggressive early and that trend should continue in Game 3.Tampa and Milwaukee both ranked among the top-10 MLB teams in first-inning batting average, on-base percentage and RBI in the regular season.
The Rays have been the best first-inning scoring team in the postseason and the Brewers have already tagged Tampa’s pitchers for four first-inning runs in two games.The Rays entered this series with their rotation looking like their biggest strength and the Brewers attacked that by jumping on their pitchers early and not allowing them to get comfortable.The Rays will ...