MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers have made a habit of climbing out of seemingly impossible holes this October.
And with one swing from one of the unlikeliest sources, they did it again Saturday night.
After Milwaukee fell behind by four runs in the first inning of World Series Game 2 against the Rays, Sal Frelick sent American Family Field into a frenzy with a game-tying solo home run to straightaway center field in the sixth inning.
Frelick led off the frame against Tampa Bay left-hander Ian Seymour, who had just entered the game, and delivered arguably the biggest swing of his career, bringing the Brewers all the way back to a 4-4 tie.
The crowd erupted as the ball cleared the center-field wall, another October moment for a team that has repeatedly refused to go quietly.
And it came from a particularly unlikely source.
Frelick hit just four home runs during the regular season and finished with a .614 OPS. Even more remarkably, it was just the fourth home run of his career against a left-handed pitcher (including the postseason) and his first since Opening Day, March 26, against White Sox southpaw Tyler Gilbert.
The Brewers have now hit five left-on-left home runs in just 10 postseason games, matching their highest total in any single month during the regular season.
Milwaukee entered Game 2 with a 40-37 record when allowing the first run this season, including the playoffs. The last team to finish a full season with a winning record in such games, excluding 2020? The 2009 Yankees, who went 43-41 on their way to a World Series championship.
And the Brewers know something about erasing four-run deficits in October. They already did it in Game 4 of the NLCS against the Dodgers, when they came back to clinch the pennant in a 6-4 victory.
Only four teams in postseason history have recorded two comeback victories of at least four runs in the same year: the Yankees (1996), the Angels (2002), the White Sox (2005) and the Phillies (2022).
Whether Milwaukee joins that company remains to be seen.
But thanks to Frelick, the Brewers gave themselves another chance.