Rays look to even World Series in Game 2

Tonight at the game, Chris Cato has been catching up with fans, and he's been on the search for some Rays fans that are rooting for the team all the way up there in Milwaukee, and he joins us live now. Hey there, Chris. We saw a couple of Rays fans here popping up on the national broadcast, so that was great to see. But this is a great atmosphere for this Fall Classic here. Oh, it's an amazing atmosphere, Mark. You know, that was the golden unicorn that we were looking for here as we came up from Tampa Bay. We wanted to find Rays fans inside the ballpark, and last night I kind of struck out on that quest just because, I mean, And my goodness, there are like 55,000 Brewers fans in there. And a lot of them wear similar colors as the Rays. And so it was kind of hard to spot any Rays fans. But tonight, we finally found a couple of Rays fans. And if you were watching Tampa Bay Live yesterday with Regina Gonzalez, then you already know who they are. But we want to reintroduce you to 11-year-old Drew Rasmussen. Yes, you heard that name right. 11-year-old Drew Rasmussen and his dad, Nick, who live in Minnesota. Drew is a huge fan of the Rays pitcher with whom he shares the same name, no relation. Now, here's the story. His dad took him to a Rays game in St. Pete three years ago, and when the Rays heard that little Drew was coming to town, they allowed him to be a bat boy for a game, and they arranged a meeting with Big Drew, as they call him, who gave little Drew an autographed jersey. Now, Nick, the dad, promised his son that if the Rays ever made it back to the World Series, he would take him to a game. Well, here we are three years later, and after the Rays won the ALCS, Drew and his mom reminded dad about that promise, and yesterday, Nick made good on it, as expensive as it is, and he surprised Drew with tickets to tonight's game two, and they made the five-hour drive over from Minnesota. When your dad surprised you, what were you thinking? I was excited. I was crying a little bit. So you're 11 now. Yep. Do you play baseball? Yes, I do. What positions do you play? I play pitcher, catcher, and first base usually. What's your favorite position to play, though? Pitcher. Do you sling it like Drew, the other Drew? Yeah. Give him 15 years. This is incredible to come here, right, to be a part of a World Series like this. What did you tell any of your friends about this? I told them I was going to get interviewed on Friday, and now I'm here. and my dad surprised me. Does it kind of seem like a dream come true? Yeah. That's awesome. It's got to mean a lot to you, Nick, to be able to do this for your son. Yeah, I think his biggest excitement was getting out of school a little early yesterday. But for me, I had great memories as a kid going to baseball games, and I still remember those fond memories, going with my uncle to an Orioles game. And I just kind of in my mind had this idea that him and I could bond over this experience, and and no one will take that away from us so we're pretty excited to be here obviously we want to be here tonight because Drew's pitching um and so we're pretty excited to see what he's going to bring that's what it's all about right like Nick said no one can take this experience away from them that's the beauty of sports and baseball and we've seen so much of that out here at American Family Field appropriately named we've seen just a lot of families enjoying what is a rare moment for Rays fans for Brewers fans and again as we featured last night it's not just the fans who could afford these very expensive tickets to get inside these fans that are outside too these are your diehards they wanted to be here just to be a part of this amazing energy and they've actually showed up there are more people out here tonight than there were last night and we're going to chat with some of them coming up a little later in the hour but Drew is very little Drew very happy tonight i know he's probably a little disappointed that big Drew couldn't last a little longer into the game but i know he's very proud of big Drew and Yes, he was wearing that same jersey that Big Drew gave him three years ago, the autographed one. He's wearing that inside the stadium tonight. And let's hope that little Drew and his dad walk out of here very happy among all these Brewers fans. That is too cool. And, Chris, I love how he said, what did you tell everybody what was so great about being in the World Series? And the first thing he said before he even said being in the World Series was, I get to be interviewed. So that came first. So that's a win for us and for you. Let me ask you about those fans that are behind you. So explain that. They're outside. They didn't buy a ticket. They can just walk up and kind of view through the plexiglass there Yeah, you know quite different from the Trop right where the Trop is a complete wall There are floor to ceiling windows here that look out over what would be Yes, you're on TV. Yep. You're on TV. See TV still This is what we've learned today from Drew and from these guys TV still matters people still get excited by a camera But yes, there are these big windows here and they allow a little bit of a peek through into center field You can just see a little bit of the field, and you can see some of the TVs in there, too, and keep up with the action there. But, yeah, we'll get in the mix with them here in a minute and talk to some of them coming up in a few minutes here on Fox Local. Sure you will. Raisin 5. Raisin 5. He said Raisin 5. Did you hear that? Keep working that. It can still happen. We're still at 4-3. Chris Cato, we'll check back with you in a bit. Thanks so much.