# Brewers win the World Series in five, ending Yandy Díaz and Víctor Mesa Jr.'s title run

**Date:** 10/29/2026

The first World Series for Cuban players Yandy Díaz and Víctor Mesa Jr. ended without a ring. The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, to take the Fall Classic four games to one and win the first championship in the franchise's 57-year history.

Starter Jacob Misiorowski held Tampa Bay scoreless for 5 2/3 innings before leaving with a calf cramp, rookie Cooper Pratt drove in two runs, and Venezuelan catcher William Contreras, named World Series MVP, delivered a key double in the sixth. According to EFE and AP, Misiorowski broke Díaz's bat in the third inning and struck him out to end the fifth, on a night when the Cuban slugger appeared to be playing through physical discomfort. The Rays avoided a shutout only in the ninth.

Tampa Bay had forced Game 5 with a 4-3, 12-inning win on Tuesday, a game in which Mesa Jr. was lifted for pinch-hitter Ben Williamson, who then delivered the walk-off single. Díaz, who sent the Rays to the World Series with a two-run homer against Cleveland, had two of his team's three hits in the Game 3 loss.

For Mesa Jr., son of Cuban baseball legend Víctor Mesa, and for Díaz, a native of Sagua la Grande, the season closes with their first taste of the World Series, with a Rays team that reached the Fall Classic as American League champions.