The facts

  1. MLB’s official Game 5 record is marked Game Over with a final score of Milwaukee 4, Tampa Bay 1. ESPN separately marks the game Final and the series completed. [1][2]

  2. ESPN lists Jacob Misiorowski as the winning pitcher and Drew Rasmussen as the losing pitcher. [2]

  3. Milwaukee finished with eight hits and two errors; Tampa Bay had four hits and no errors, according to MLB’s final linescore. [1]

  4. MLB named Contreras World Series MVP after he batted .381 with four runs batted in and caught four runners attempting to steal. [3][4]

  5. AP reported that Contreras won ten of his 13 challenges through the automated ball-strike review system during the series. [4]

Corrections & updates

Added William Contreras’s confirmed World Series MVP award and first-title context after MLB’s postgame announcement and AP’s report. The earlier MVP verification gap is resolved.

Sources

References support the numbered facts above. Source checks: 29 Oct 2026, 04:19 UTC.

  1. World Series Game 5: official final game record

    Major League Baseball · Primary source · 29 Oct 2026

    Final status, 4–1 score, venue, local game date and linescore checked after earlier in-progress snapshots. The source URL is a rolling official game record.

  2. 28 October MLB scoreboard: Brewers–Rays final and completed series

    ESPN · Reporting · 29 Oct 2026

    Public scoreboard lists event 401908046 as completed and MIL wins series 4-1. ESPN is separately owned from MLB; score feeds may share official statistics and are not independent eyewitness accounts.

  3. Contreras honored with World Series MVP for prowess behind the plate

    Major League Baseball · Primary source · 29 Oct 2026

    Official postgame announcement read through normal public HTTPS, after the original article’s final-score checks.

  4. Milwaukee’s William Contreras wins World Series MVP with .381 average, 10 ABS overturns

    Associated Press via WSB Radio · Reporting · 29 Oct 2026

    Ronald Blum’s independent AP postgame report, published 28 October at 11:45 p.m. Eastern time. WSB is the host; official baseball statistics share the underlying game record.

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