MLB’s Ground Crew Forced to Interrupt Brewers-Rays Game Following Serious Issues With the Mound

Tropicana Field’s mound is turning into an unexpected storyline in World Series Game 5, where every pitch could decide a franchise’s fate. After Cam Booser’s troubling slip in Game 4, Jacob Misiorowski became the latest pitcher to struggle with the surface, losing his footing just eight pitches into the bottom of the first inning while delivering a fastball to Junior Caminero. The Milwaukee Brewers’ young arm had kept the Tampa Bay Rays scoreless as Game 5 entered the fifth, but the recurring issue has raised fresh questions about the mound’s condition.