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Here’s what you missed if you skipped Game 1 on Friday.

The Brewers offense came out swinging in the first inning Friday night, touching Rays starting pitcher Nick Martinez for a pair of runs on a triple by Christian Yelich followed by a single from William Contreras.

Milwaukee leaned on its flame-throwing ace Jacob Misiorowski, who made those two runs stand up as he worked five innings and earned his first career postseason win as a starter.

The Rays cut the Brewers’ lead in half in the fourth inning with an RBI groundout from catcher Liam Hicks, but the Miz was able to avoid any further damage and stranded the tying run on third base to hold the score at 2-1.

Milwaukee added to its lead in the seventh inning with a clutch, two-out single from left fielder Jackson Chourio to drive in Cooper Pratt and tack on a much-needed insurance run to make the score 3-1.

After stellar bullpen work from Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby, Brewers manager Pat Murphy handed the ball over to star closer Trevor Megill for the ninth inning.

The Rays were not ready to go quietly into the Wisconsin night, and back-to-back one-out singles from Jonathan Aranda and Chandler Simpson brought Tampa Bay’s All-Star slugger Junior Caminero to the plate representing the go-ahead run. After getting a fortunate call on a check swing that looked like it might have been strike three, Caminero drew a walk to load the bases.

Hicks then appeared to ground into an game-ending 4-6-3 double play, and the fireworks went off as the Brewers shook hands on the infield grass.

But the Rays challenged the call on the field, and on replay review, it was determined that Brewers shortstop Pratt took his foot off second base an instant too soon. The double play was overturned and pinch-runner Jorge Mateo scored to make the score 3-2 with one more out left to go.

With the smoke from the fireworks still hanging in the air, Megill gathered his composure and struck out Jonny DeLuca with a nasty breaking ball to end the game.