Rays rally in 12th inning to force World Series Game 5

🗞️ Story file #1003

Rays rally in 12th inning to force World Series Game 5

Oct 27, 2 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏5 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions
6people retold it online
4 of 4parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 27, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: Tampa Bay Times
Oct 27, 4 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 27, 8 AM ETretold online by 6 people
Oct 28, 3 AM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 2 AM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (4 wordings): “Rays put on the brink of World Series flop by Brewers’ historic 8-run, 2-out surge” → “Brewers fans at the Trop have to wait to celebrate the franchise’s first World Series title”
Chicago Tribune (3 wordings): “World Series: Milwaukee Brewers rout the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 to move within a win of their first title” → “World Series: Tampa Bay Rays stun Milwaukee Brewers with a 12th inning rally and force Game 5 with 4-3 win”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning, force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win” → “Rays stun Brewers with a rally in 12th inning, force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win”
New York Post (4 wordings): “Brewers’ dominance hits whole new level in Rays rout as World Series win feels inevitable now” → “Rays rally for dramatic World Series Game 4 win over Brewers to stave off elimination”
Tampa Bay Times (3 wordings): “Brewers have shot at sweep, 1st World Series title after rout of Rays • Sports comment” → “Rays stay alive in World Series with walkoff win over Brewers in 12th • Sports comment”
The Guardian (4 wordings): “Ruthless Brewers eye sweep after crushing Rays 10-1 in Game 3” → “Rays battle from brink in 12th inning to stun Brewers and stave off World Series sweep”
USA Today (8 wordings): “Brewers humiliating Rays in World Series, now one win from title” → “Rays survive in World Series with wild 12th inning walk-off vs Brewers”

Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Ruthless Brewers eye sweep after crushing Rays 10-1 in Game 3 Oct 27, 12 AM ET
AP Rays put on the brink of World Series flop by Brewers’ historic 8-run, 2-out surge Oct 27, 1 AM ET
NBC News Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning, force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win Oct 28, 1 AM ET
NPR Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning and force World Series Game 5 Oct 28, 3 AM ET
USA Today Brewers humiliating Rays in World Series, now one win from title Oct 27, 12 AM ET
Chicago Tribune World Series: Milwaukee Brewers rout the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 to move within a win of their first title Oct 27, 12 AM ET
Tampa Bay Times Brewers have shot at sweep, 1st World Series title after rout of Rays • Sports comment Oct 27, 2 AM ET
The Washington Times Tampa Bay Rays rally in 12th inning of Game 4 to beat Milwaukee Brewers and prevent World Series swe Oct 28, 2 AM ET
New York Post Brewers’ dominance hits whole new level in Rays rout as World Series win feels inevitable now Oct 27, 12 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News2 min

CNN2 min

MSNOW44 s

WORLD SERIES WALK-OFF. RAYS TAKE GAME 4 FROM BREWERS 4-3 TO AVOID ELIMINATION Fox News, 52 s
WORLD SERIES. BREWERS WIN 10-1, TAKE 3-0 SERIES LEAD OVER RAYS Fox News, 47 s
BREWERS RIDE 8-RUN STH INNING TO 10-1 ROU MSNOW, 44 s
RAYS RALLY TO BEAT BREWERS 4-3, EXTEND SERIES TO GAME 5 CNN, 39 s
Brewers beat Rays In 10-1 Blowout CNN, 25 s
BREWERS TAKE 3-0 WORLD SERIES LEAD Fox News, 24 s
BREWERS ON THE BRINK AFTER 10-1 ROUT OF RAYS IN GAME 3 CNN, 13 s
Milwaukee erupts for 8 runs with 2 outs in 5th; can clinch WS title tonight CNN, 13 s

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

There are a lot of Brewers fans at the Trop. Oct 27: told by 6 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Milwaukee Brewers Tampa Bay Rays World Series

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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