World Series 2026 Schedule: Brewers Beat Rays 4-1 in Five Games

The Brewers beat the Rays 4-1 in Game 5 at Tropicana Field on Wednesday night and won the World Series four games to one. Jacob Misiorowski got the win; Drew Rasmussen took the loss. Games 6 and 7 are off the schedule. Source: Major League Baseball (MLB) official game data.

The Milwaukee Brewers won the 2026 World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 28, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 at Tropicana Field to take the series four games to one, according to Major League Baseball (MLB) game data. It was the franchise’s first title. Milwaukee won Game 1, 3-2, Game 2, 5-4, and Game 3, 10-1, before Tampa Bay won Game 4, 4-3 in 12 innings. Every game started at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on FOX.

World Series 2026 schedule

Game	Date	Home team	Start (ET)	TV	Result
1	Friday, Oct. 23	Brewers	8 p.m.	FOX	Brewers 3, Rays 2
2	Saturday, Oct. 24	Brewers	8 p.m.	FOX	Brewers 5, Rays 4
3	Monday, Oct. 26	Rays	8 p.m.	FOX	Brewers 10, Rays 1
4	Tuesday, Oct. 27	Rays	8 p.m.	FOX	Rays 4, Brewers 3 (12 innings)
5	Wednesday, Oct. 28	Rays	8 p.m.	FOX	Brewers 4, Rays 1 (Brewers win series 4-1)
6	Friday, Oct. 30	Brewers	8 p.m.	FOX	Not needed
7	Saturday, Oct. 31	Brewers	8 p.m.	FOX	Not needed

Games 5, 6 and 7 were scheduled only if needed; the series ended with Game 5. Milwaukee’s home games are at American Family Field; 8 p.m. ET is 7 p.m. Central Time there. MLB noted the schedule could change.

How to watch: TV, streaming and radio

• TV: FOX carries every game in English. FOX Deportes carries every game in Spanish, and Univision adds a Spanish-language broadcast of Game 1.
• Streaming: FOX telecasts stream on FOX One, FOX’s streaming service. With a pay-TV login, they also stream on FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports app.
• MLB.TV: The World Series is not a regular MLB.TV game. MLB says FOX games are available there only to authenticated subscribers of the network through a participating pay-TV provider.
• Radio: ESPN Radio has national coverage of every game, and Univision’s Spanish-language radio network carries the series too.

How the Brewers and Rays got here

Milwaukee finished the regular season 103-59, the best record of the two pennant winners, and swept the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 in the National League Championship Series. Tampa Bay went 98-64 and beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-2 in the American League Championship Series, winning the last three games after trailing two games to one. The Rays clinched the pennant on Monday, Oct. 19, with a 7-3 win.

This is the Brewers’ second World Series and their first since 1982, when they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games as an American League team. The Rays are back for the first time since 2020 and the third time overall, after 2008 and 2020. Both franchises are among the five that have never won a World Series, according to MLB, and the Brewers became the first of the two to win one.

Home-field advantage and the 2-3-2 format

The team with the better regular-season record hosts Games 1, 2, 6 and 7. That was Milwaukee this year, by five wins. Tampa Bay hosts Games 3, 4 and 5. Because Games 6 and 7 return to Milwaukee, a long series would have ended where it began.

Halloween and the clock change, no Game 7

A Game 7 had been set for 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 31, Halloween night, and was not needed; for local sunset and trick-or-treat hours, see Halloween 2026 sunset and trick-or-treat times. That night, daylight saving time ended at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, so clocks fell back an hour. The details are in daylight saving time ends Nov. 1.

Plan the week

Our free schedule and score tracker lists all seven games with the date, home team, start time and channel, plus boxes for each final score and a running series tally, in color or an ink-saver version. Put the games on our October 2026 printable calendar. The series had been set to run into the weekend of Halloween, at the start of our November 2026 calendar.