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Rays vs Brewers: what channel, time, announcers for World Series Game 2

By IsHePlayingToday Staff · Updated Oct 24, 2026

If you watched Game 1, you know why you should not turn this one on late. Milwaukee won the opener 3-2 on Friday night, and it ended in the kind of mess that only the World Series seems to make: a game-ending double play that was not game-ending, fireworks going off too soon, and a final strikeout in the smoke. Game 2 is back at the same park on Saturday night, on the same channel, with a first pitch at 8:00 PM ET.

The basics

The Tampa Bay Rays visit the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field in Milwaukee on Saturday, October 24. First pitch is 8:00 PM ET, which is 7:00 PM CT in Milwaukee. The game is on FOX, and the whole World Series is on FOX, so there is no channel-hopping from game to game.

For streaming, FOX One and the FOX Sports app carry the game, and Fubo carries FOX as well, with a free trial offer for new subscribers. Spanish-language coverage is on FOX Deportes. If you are watching on a live TV service, the check is the same as always: make sure your package includes your local FOX station.

Who is calling the game

FOX has Joe Davis on play-by-play, John Smoltz as the analyst, and Tom Verducci and Ken Rosenthal reporting from the sideline. That is the same crew that called Game 1 from American Family Field, so you will hear familiar voices for the second night in a row.

Davis and Smoltz carry the main call, and Verducci and Rosenthal work the dugouts and the field. On a night when the starting pitchers and the bullpen moves will decide it, the sideline reporting matters: both managers used their benches and their pens late in Game 1, and Game 2 could go the same way.

Game 2 starters

Drew Rasmussen starts for the Rays. He is a former Brewers draft pick, and he won 16 games this season with a 2.67 ERA. Logan Henderson starts for Milwaukee. That is the pitching matchup for Saturday night, and it is a big swing game for Tampa Bay: fall behind 2-0 before the series moves to Florida, and the road back gets steep.

Game 1 set that up. Jacob Misiorowski got the win for Milwaukee, going five innings for the first time in three postseason starts. William Contreras drove in a run, threw out two runners, and won two ABS challenges. Jackson Chourio's RBI single in the seventh turned out to be the run Milwaukee needed.

Then came the ninth. Milwaukee looked to have turned a game-ending double play, the handshake line started, and the fireworks went off. Tampa Bay challenged, replay ruled Junior Caminero safe at second, a run scored, and suddenly the Rays had the tying run on third and the winning run on second. Trevor Megill struck out Jonny DeLuca to end it, in the smoke from the early fireworks. Milwaukee leads the series 1-0.

Radio and the roof

If you are in the car or away from a TV, the Brewers Radio Network carries the games, including flagship station AM-620 WTMJ in Milwaukee. Jeff Levering, Lane Grindle and Josh Maurer call the games on that network. On SiriusXM, the Brewers broadcast is on channel 203, the Rays broadcast is on 202, and the national broadcast is on channels 80 and 89.

As for the weather, the outside temperature in Milwaukee on Saturday night was expected to be around 60 degrees and dry. American Family Field has a retractable roof, and the roof decision had not been announced at the time of writing. If the roof is closed, the weather will not touch this game at all. If it stays open, it is a cool, dry night for baseball, not a night where wind or rain should change how the ball carries.

The full World Series schedule

Every game is at 8:00 PM ET on FOX. Games 5, 6 and 7 are only played if the series is still going.

• Game 1: Friday, Oct 23, Rays at Brewers, Milwaukee — Brewers won 3-2
• Game 2: Saturday, Oct 24, Rays at Brewers, Milwaukee
• Game 3: Monday, Oct 26, Brewers at Rays, St. Petersburg
• Game 4: Tuesday, Oct 27, Brewers at Rays, St. Petersburg
• Game 5: Wednesday, Oct 28, Brewers at Rays, St. Petersburg, if necessary
• Game 6: Friday, Oct 30, Rays at Brewers, Milwaukee, if necessary
• Game 7: Saturday, Oct 31, Rays at Brewers, Milwaukee, if necessary

Milwaukee has home-field advantage after finishing the regular season 103-59, against Tampa Bay's 98-64. That is why the first two games, and the last two if they are needed, are in Milwaukee. This is Milwaukee's first World Series since 1982, and Tampa Bay's first since 2020. Neither team has ever won a World Series, so one of them makes history when this series ends.

How they got here is part of the story too. Milwaukee swept the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Tampa Bay beat the Cleveland Guardians in six games to win the American League pennant.

The bottom line

FOX, 8:00 PM ET on Saturday, Davis and Smoltz in the booth, Rasmussen against Henderson on the mound, and a Brewers team trying to take a 2-0 lead home fans have waited since 1982 to see. The Rays, meanwhile, are trying to make sure Game 1's wild finish is not the moment this series turned. Turn it on on time. Game 1 showed why.