Sports Scores, Oct. 23: Brewers Win World Series Game 1, 3-2

Sports scores for Oct. 23

Milwaukee struck first and then held on. The Brewers beat Tampa Bay 3-2 at American Family Field in Game 1 of the World Series and lead the best-of-seven series 1-0. The Rays scored in the ninth only after a replay review wiped out what had looked like a game-ending double play, according to AP. AP noted this is the first World Series since 1980 in which both teams are chasing a first title. For the matchup’s background, see our World Series preview.

In the NHL, Nathan MacKinnon set up three goals and scored another as Colorado beat Tampa Bay 6-3, and Montreal won 4-1 in Chicago. Overseas, five European leagues played one Friday match each, Afghanistan won a one-day tri-series final in Sharjah, and five tennis events played their quarterfinals.

This post gathers Friday’s results from leagues without a roundup of their own. See also our NBA scores for Oct. 23 and college football scores for Oct. 23. Formula 1 held practice in Austin, not a race.

MLB and NHL

European soccer

Scorers come from 101 Great Goals, Naiz, Sport Mediaset, Bundesliga.com and Foot Mercato, each matched by a second outlet. Gladbach’s win was its first of the season, and Torino has now won three in a row. Malaga, which sits last in La Liga, conceded its lead one minute from the end of regulation.

Cricket

Tennis quarterfinals

ATP 250s: Almaty, Lyon and Brussels

WTA: Ningbo (500) and Osaka (250)

Seeds are in parentheses; Q marks a qualifier. ATP scores are from the ATP Tour, whose pages date them Oct. 24, though TASS and The Sports Encounter confirm Friday play. WTA scores are from Tennis Now, WTA.com and Tennis Tonic.

Brewers 3, Rays 2: a call reversed, then a strikeout

Milwaukee scored twice in the first against Nick Martinez on Christian Yelich’s run-scoring triple and William Contreras’ RBI single, per AP and CBS Sports. Jackson Chourio drove in Cooper Pratt in the seventh for a 3-1 lead. Jacob Misiorowski worked five innings and allowed one run; AP said his first pitch, at 103.5 mph, was the fastest ever thrown in a World Series.

In the ninth, Trevor Megill gave up one-out singles to Jonathan Aranda and Simpson, the Rays pulled off a double steal, and Caminero walked. Liam Hicks then grounded into an apparent double play, but replay showed Pratt’s foot was off second base, so a run counted. Megill ended it by striking out Jonny DeLuca. Aranda reached base all four times, and AP counted Tampa Bay 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position.

Avalanche 6, Lightning 3: MacKinnon’s four points

Colorado was up 3-0 just 24 seconds into the second period. Devon Toews and Nazem Kadri, on a power play, scored in the first, and Fedor Svechkov added one right after the break. Guentzel answered twice on the power play for Tampa Bay, and Artturi Lehkonen scored in between. MacKinnon’s goal in the third made it 5-2 before Martin Necas added an empty-netter. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 31 of 34 shots, according to ColoradoAvalanche.com, which said MacKinnon reached 1,300 career points, regular season and playoffs combined. AP said Kucherov is still level with Steven Stamkos for the Lightning’s career points record, at 1,137, and that the loss ended Tampa Bay’s three-game winning streak.

Afghanistan’s unbeaten tri-series

Zimbabwe chose to bat and was bowled out for 169, with Sikandar Raza scoring 68. Rashid Khan took three wickets and Mohammad Nabi two. Ibrahim Zadran then anchored the chase with 70 not out from 96 balls, helped by Rahmat Shah’s 43, Amu TV reported. Rashid was player of the series with 11 wickets, and Samaa TV noted Afghanistan didn’t lose a match in the event.

What it means

• World Series: Milwaukee needs three more wins; Tampa Bay needs four of the next six games. Games 3, 4 and 5 (if needed) move to Tropicana Field, per TMJ4.
• NHL: Colorado (6-4-1) snapped a two-game skid on the road. Montreal is 5-3-2 and Chicago 3-7-0, per NHL.com; the Blackhawks have dropped two straight.
• Soccer: home teams won just one of five matches, with two draws and two away wins.
• Cricket: Afghanistan won with 93 balls to spare, or 15.3 of its 50 overs unused.
• Tennis: the top seeds in Almaty, Lyon, Brussels and Ningbo (Medvedev, Cobolli, Fils and Rybakina) all advanced. Lyon’s semifinal between Fritz and Paul guarantees the event’s first American finalist, Tennis Majors noted, and Osaka also has an all-American semifinal.

What’s next

• World Series Game 2, Saturday, Oct. 24: at American Family Field, first pitch about 8 p.m. ET. Drew Rasmussen (16-5, 2.67 ERA) is expected to start for Tampa Bay against Logan Henderson (11-3, 2.47) for Milwaukee.
• NHL, Saturday: 12 games, from Anaheim at Philadelphia (1 p.m. ET) to Detroit at Calgary and Minnesota at Seattle (10 p.m.), per NHL.com and Daily Faceoff. Tampa Bay plays at Utah at 9 p.m., and Toronto visits Edmonton at 7 p.m. Colorado is at Nashville on Sunday, and Montreal plays Winnipeg in the outdoor Heritage Classic on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET.
• Tennis semifinals: Medvedev vs. Bublik and Tsitsipas vs. Basilashvili in Almaty; Fritz vs. Paul and Cobolli vs. Musetti in Lyon; Fils vs. Struff and Griekspoor vs. Cerundolo in Brussels; Rybakina vs. Shnaider and Fernandez vs. Bouzkova in Ningbo; Li vs. Krueger and Boulter vs. Siniakova in Osaka.
• Formula 1: the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas is Sunday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. local time, according to GPfans and RacingNews365.