Biggest questions for World Series Game 5: Where will Rays turn to avoid elimination (again)?

The Brewers will send Jacob Misiorowski to the mound as they try again for their first championship. The Rays? We The Tampa Bay Rays took their first step toward a baseball miracle with their 12th-inning comeback win over the Milwaukee Brewers in Tuesday's Game 4 of the World Series. That 4-3 victory means the Rays avoided the sweep and cut the Brewers' series lead to 3-1. That sets the stage for Wednesday's Game 5. Tuesday's escape for the Rays was obviously an essential one, as it was an elimination game. The win also nudged the Rays' chances of winning the series from "all but impossible" to "merely a longshot." Across all of Major League Baseball postseason history, 42 teams have been down 3-0, and only one – the 2004 Boston Red Sox – has come back to win the series in question.

That is, history suggests the Rays had a mere 2.4% chance of pulling off the miracle comeback when they were down 3-0. Now, though, they're down 3-1. In all, 96 teams have been down 3-1 in a best-of-seven MLB postseason series, and 14 of them have clawed back to win the series. That particular data set says the Rays have a 14.6% chance of stunning the Brewers and winning this Fall Classic. Those aren't great odds, obviously, but