Rays force World Series Game 5 with 12th inning rally

🗞️ Story file #1003

Rays force World Series Game 5 with 12th inning rally

Oct 27, 2 AM ET to Oct 29, 1 AM ET

19outlets carried it
🫏9 · 3 · 7🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
19front pages at once, at its peak
6 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts
6people retold it online
4 of 4parts of a saga

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Oct 27, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: Tampa Bay Times
Oct 27, 4 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 27, 8 AM ETretold online by 6 people
Oct 28, 8 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 29, 1 AM ETpeak: on 19 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 2 AM to Oct 29, 1 AM ET (peak 19), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word

Chicago Tribune, NPR

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 9 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (5 wordings): “Rays put on the brink of World Series flop by Brewers’ historic 8-run, 2-out surge” → “Brewers beat the Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to win the first World Series title in franchise history”
Chicago Tribune (5 wordings): “World Series: Milwaukee Brewers rout the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 to move within a win of their first title” → “World Series: Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to win 1st title in franchise history”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning, force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win” → “Rays stun Brewers with a rally in 12th inning, force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win”
NPR (2 wordings): “Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning and force World Series Game 5” → “Brewers beat the Rays to win the first World Series title in franchise history”
New York Post (7 wordings): “Brewers’ dominance hits whole new level in Rays rout as World Series win feels inevitable now” → “Ale yeah! Brewers handle Rays in Game 5 to win franchise’s long-awaited first World Series crown”
Tampa Bay Times (5 wordings): “Brewers have shot at sweep, 1st World Series title after rout of Rays • Sports comment” → “Rays’ season comes to disappointing end with World Series loss to Brewers • Sports comment”
The Guardian (5 wordings): “Ruthless Brewers eye sweep after crushing Rays 10-1 in Game 3” → “Brewers close out Rays to end 57-year wait for first World Series title”
The Washington Times (3 wordings): “Tampa Bay Rays rally in 12th inning of Game 4 to beat Milwaukee Brewers and prevent World Series swe” → “Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning to force World Series Game 5”
USA Today (13 wordings): “Brewers humiliating Rays in World Series, now one win from title” → “Bottoms up! World Series champ Brewers finally the toast of MLB”