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Two of Baseball's Best Base-Stealing Teams Meet in the World Series
Only one pennant winner since 1995 stole more bases than either of them. Game 1 is Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern on FOX.
Expect the bases to be busy. The Rays tied for second in the majors with 164 stolen bases this season and the Brewers ranked fifth with 162, MLB.com notes, and both have kept running in October: Tampa Bay is 11 for 11 on steals in nine playoff games, and Milwaukee 10 for 12 in eight.
Among pennant winners since the Wild Card era began in 1995, only the 2023 Diamondbacks, with 166, stole more in the regular season than these two teams. And it is only the fourth World Series since divisional play began in 1969 to feature two of that season's top five base-stealing teams, and the first since 2008.
Game 1 is Friday, October 23, at 8 p.m. Eastern on FOX, with Drew Rasmussen expected to start for the Rays against Jacob Misiorowski. Neither franchise has won a World Series.
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