World Series shifts to Tampa Bay with the Brewers up 2-0 and Peralta facing his old team

The Milwaukee Brewers are two wins from their first World Series title after coming back to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 in Game 2 on Saturday night.

The series resumes Monday at Tropicana Field, where the Rays will try to avoid a 3-0 hole.

How Game 2 turned

Tampa Bay scored four times in the first inning, helped by an error and a home run by Liam Hicks, according to Field Level Media. Milwaukee answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning, closed to 4-3 on a Rays fielding error and tied it on Sal Frelick's sixth-inning homer.

Rookie Cooper Pratt drove in the go-ahead run with a single in the seventh. Five Brewers relievers then held the Rays scoreless, and Aaron Ashby earned the save.

Only 10 teams have come back from 2-0 down to win the World Series, the last being the 1996 Yankees, Field Level Media noted.

Game 3 at a glance

Peralta spent his first eight seasons in Milwaukee. Since Aug. 26 he is 7-0 with a 0.89 ERA and was named ALCS MVP, according to MLB.com.

Milwaukee's bullpen has allowed one run in 10 innings this series, MLB.com reported, and Ashby has not allowed a run in 15 2/3 postseason innings.