{"id":80213,"date":"2026-10-19T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/world-series-will-have-first-time-champion-as-rays-set-up-showdown-with-brewers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:29:43","slug":"world-series-will-have-first-time-champion-as-rays-set-up-showdown-with-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/world-series-will-have-first-time-champion-as-rays-set-up-showdown-with-brewers\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series will have first-time champion as Rays set up showdown with Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tampa Bay beat Guardians to seal ALCS in six games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>7-3 Game 6 win set up by strong Freddy Peralta start<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Freddy Peralta threw 5.1 gritty innings, Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz each hit a two-run homer and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise\u2019s 29 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays will face the Milwaukee Brewers who, like Tampa Bay, are seeking to win their first-ever World Series. A sellout crowd of 40,230 fans waved yellow-and-blue rally towels, rang cowbells and chanted \u201cLet\u2019s go Rays!\u201d throughout the night at Tropicana Field, which needed major renovations after Hurricane Milton shredded the roof two years ago and caused extensive damage throughout the stadium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/19\/rays-guardians-mlb-playoffs-world-series-alcs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay beat Guardians to seal ALCS in six games 7-3 Game 6 win set up by strong Freddy Peralta start Freddy Peralta threw 5.1 gritty innings, Junior Caminero and Yandy D\u00edaz each hit a two-run homer and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship &#8230; <a title=\"World Series will have first-time champion as Rays set up showdown with Brewers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/world-series-will-have-first-time-champion-as-rays-set-up-showdown-with-brewers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Series will have first-time champion as Rays set up showdown with Brewers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}