Rookie left-hander Robert Gasser started for the Brewers and threw six scoreless innings, allowing one hit, a single by Yandy Díaz. He needed 75 pitches, struck out three and faced the minimum 18 batters, something no left-hander had done through six innings of a World Series game since Sandy Koufax in 1965. Gasser finished the postseason's first three starts with a 0.60 ERA. Veteran Brandon Woodruff, who has been pitching through shoulder injuries, closed the game in relief.

The game was 3-0 until the fifth inning, when Milwaukee scored eight runs on 12 plate appearances. Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang led the rally, with Chourio driving in a run on a double and Turang adding a two-run single. Cooper Pratt also doubled. The inning turned after a replay review overturned an out call on Christian Yelich at second base, which loaded the bases. Brewers manager Pat Murphy praised Yelich's hustle on the play.

All eight runs in the inning came with two outs, which Elias Sports Bureau says no team had done before in a World Series inning. Seven Brewers in a row reached base safely, which OptaSTATS says had not happened in any postseason game. Rays relievers Cam Booser and Cole Sulser, who entered with ERAs of 6.00 and 15.43, could not stop it. Booser gave up multiple hits without recording an out.

Milwaukee finished with 16 hits against starter Freddy Peralta and five relievers. Peralta, a former Brewer and the recent ALCS MVP, took the loss. He allowed five runs on seven hits over 4 2/3 innings. Chourio went 4 for 5 with a double, a stolen base and two runs. William Contreras challenged four automated ball-strike calls, and all four were changed to strikes.

Tampa Bay managed three hits and one run, with its last hit coming in the ninth inning. Rays manager Kevin Cash called the loss "deflating." Thousands of traveling Wisconsin fans were among the 40,388 in attendance. The lowest resale price for a Game 3 ticket fell to $422, 45% below the price on the day Milwaukee clinched the pennant. The cheapest seat at Game 1 in Milwaukee was a record $2,338.

Of the 25 teams to take a 3-0 lead in the World Series, 21 have swept and none has lost. No team has come back from 0-3 to win a World Series, and only the 2004 Boston Red Sox have done it in any postseason round, in the American League Championship Series.