The World Series of the have-nots is here. But baseball’s money problem isn’t going away — Tom Dart

But their unlikely World Series comes with a warning about the sport’s future The best pitcher in baseball led the best team to victory over the second-best team? Weird. A World Series that makes the logical feel novel began on Friday as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 in Game 1 . Of course the Brewers, with their MLB-topping 103 regular-season victories, should be facing the 98-win Rays on the grandest stage. But of course, since these are two of the smallest and lowest-budget franchises in the sport, they shouldn’t.