What we're watching

Cooper Pratt puts the Brewers on the brink of World Series glory!

Yandy Díaz comes out of the game for a pinch runner and the Rays can't score

Brewers get another runner on but can't move him past first base

Rays down in order in the 10th. How many shutdown relievers can Milwaukee possibly have?

Rays escape the 10th with no damage done

Aaron Ashby sets scoreless streak record and game goes to extras

The Rays' defense turns up huge to stymie the Brewers

A successful Rays challenge still leads to no offense and we head to the 9th

Exit Martinez, enter Baker as the Rays are pulling out all the stops

Rays get a baserunner, but fail to score

We're all tied up heading to the seventh inning stretch

Brice Turang flashes award-winning defense to turn two

Rays turn to Game 1 starter Nick Martinez in relief

MLB's Stand Up To Cancer moment pulls at the heartstrings

Brewers bringing in the big guns: Their unbeatable bullpen

We're halfway home and Game 4 is tied 2-2

Brewers' game-tying home run is the end of the line for Griffin Jax

Rays take the lead on aggressive base running and Brewers' error

Why baseball teams party so hard and so often in October

At the end of this series, the final party will begin. It will be the last in a long line of them.

Every major US sport has multi-round postseason schedules, but none of them party like MLB teams. Locker room celebrations in the NFL tend to be subdued until the Super Bowl, and since hockey players are famously superstitious, popping bottles early is practically verboten in the NHL; the Stanley Cup is all that really matters.

Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager Tom McLaughlin has spent over 40 years with the Red Sox, and he says he’s lost track of how many celebrations he’s been involved in, but he counts them in the dozens. He told CNN Sports it was “pretty tame” when he started in the ‘80s, when the postseason was much shorter, but the back end of the season now can feel like one enormous bender for the most successful teams.

Clinched a playoff spot? Party.

Successfully navigate the wildcard round? Let’s get wild.

Made it through the Divisional Round? Get another round in.

Won the Championship Series? We’re going on a spree.

By the time a baseball club wins the World Series, let’s just say that the celebration will not be their first rodeo. Everyone will have had plenty of practice.