Champs at last: Brewers win their first World Series title
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Rookie Cooper Pratt drove in two runs and Jacob Misiorowski tossed 5 2/3 scoreless innings, helping the Milwaukee Brewers capture their first World Series title with a 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday. The Brewers, who dispatched the Rays in five games, won 11 of their 13 postseason games. Pratt followed up his four-hit performance in Game 4 on Tuesday with an RBI single in the second inning and a base hit in the fifth. His six consecutive hits set a World Series record for a rookie, eclipsing the mark set by the New York Yankees' Brian Doyle in 1978. Pratt's run of consecutive hits ended with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning. William Contreras ripped an RBI double and David Hamilton added a run-scoring single to mark his fourth straight game with an RBI. The offense was more than enough for Misiorowski (2-0), who notched his second win in the World Series. The fireballer scattered two hits and a walk before exiting in