It’s here. You’ve made it. The World Series begins Friday night. It is as compelling a matchup as you could want, featuring the teams with the best records in each league battling it out. And, of course, when this series is over, one team is going to have something it has never had before: a World Series championship trophy.

Here are three key questions leading into World Series Game 1 at American Family Field in Milwaukee.

World Series Game 1: Rays at Brewers
8 p.m. ET, FOX/FOX One
SP: Nick Martinez (TB) vs. Jacob Misiorowski (MIL)

Will Miz find his postseason groove?

One of the many reasons people were more bullish about the Brewers heading into this particular postseason run was that they have an all-timer of an ace, a soon-to-be NL Cy Young Award winner who dominated the sport this year. That’s, of course, Misiorowski, who may throw harder than anyone in the history of baseball.

But the Brewers have now played eight games this postseason, two started by Misiorowski, and he is … fourth on the team in innings. Misiorowski has been effective enough, giving up just three runs and striking out 11 over 8 1/3 frames, but he hasn’t made it out of the fifth inning in either outing.

The strategy against him has been clear: Foul off as many pitches as possible and push that pitch count up. It has worked so far, though only to a point: The Brewers have still won both games the Miz started. But when you have a weapon like him, you’d like to be able to use him more. Plus, if this turns into a long series, every inning Miz eats is one the team’s electric bullpen doesn’t have to cover.

Can the Rays hit some homers?

The Rays were a worse offensive team than the Brewers during the regular season in just about every category: OBP, SLG, OPS, runs scored, walks, even triples. But Tampa Bay had them in one area: They hit 15 more homers. (The Brewers, in fact, were tied for the second-fewest homers in MLB, ahead of only the Blue Jays.)

We saw from Game 6 of the ALCS that not only can the Rays hit some homers, but they get super excited when they do so: The Rays were clearly having a blast. Scoring usually goes down in the postseason, when every pitch matters so much, which only multiplies the effect of a good long ball: When you finally get a pitch to hit, you better make it count. The Brewers have actually hit more homers this postseason (10) than the Rays (7) — and every other team in the postseason, in fact — but the Rays are a team that relies on the homer more.

Perhaps that Game 6 homer from Junior Caminero will get him going at just the right time. Caminero, a 42-homer hitter in the regular season, hadn’t hit one in the postseason before then. The Rays could sure use a Caminero power binge in this series.

Is the City of Milwaukee ready?

The last time the city of Milwaukee hosted a World Series game, on Oct. 17, 1982, things were certainly different. The Brewers were an American League team, the Rays were still 16 years away from existing and Ronald Reagan had been president for about a year and a half. Robin Yount went 4-for-4 with a home run in that Game 5, and Brewers starting pitcher Mike Caldwell threw 127 pitches over 8 1/3 innings, despite allowing four runs on 14 hits. The Brewers beat the Cardinals, taking a 3-2 lead, but then dropped Games 6 and 7 back in St. Louis.

That’s to say, they’ve been building up to this for a while. The Brewers have long had one of the most loyal and dedicated fanbases in all of baseball, one that has provided some of the more charming, eccentric characters to the greater sports landscape, from Bernie Brewer and his slide to, of course, the great Bob Uecker.

And now they are here, four games from their first championship, with the best team they’ve ever had, with their galactically electric pitcher on the mound. It might be a little too cold on Friday night to keep the roof open (though there’s no rain in the forecast), which means, with the lid on the place, American Family Field is about to be supersonically loud. Expect them to blow that lid right off. Get ready.