The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series Champions.
A sentence that the people of Wisconsin thought they might never hear. A team that, as a small-market franchise, has had to scratch and claw their way to relevance. After waiting 57 years, the Brewers sit atop baseball’s highest peak.
All season, two-time manager of the year Pat Murphy has preached winning today and winning for each other. That’s what the Brewers did as they won the fifth game of the World Series 4-1, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays.
It was a season of records and firsts for Milwaukee. The Brewers became the first team in franchise history to win more than 100 games, the first to win an NL Pennant, and the first to claim the title in the fall classic.
They end this 2026 campaign on one of the most impressive stretches we’ve ever seen from a playoff team. They went 11-2 over their 13 postseason games. Milwaukee beat the hottest team in the league heading into the playoffs, the San Diego Padres. They swept the back-to-back defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. They beat the unquestioned best team in the American League, the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Brewers didn’t just beat these teams; they broke them. They chewed through some of the most unhittable starting pitching in the league. They faced 13 starters, their pedigree including 15 All-Star Appearances and five Cy Young awards. These Brewers took that pedigree and turned it into a 5.30 ERA over 54.1 innings.
They managed seven comeback wins, just below the record for a single postseason, which was eight. This gritty lineup never quit on a game. It was able to come back on one of the game’s best closers, Mason Miller. They continued to add on in the championship series against a Dodgers bullpen that had puzzled opposing lineups all year. There was simply no quit in the 2026 Milwaukee Brewers. When they got down early in a game, the mantra was, “We have them right where we want them.”
The most impressive part of this Brewers team in this stretch was undoubtedly their bullpen. “Death Pen” became a common phrase amongst Brewers fans as the playoffs progressed, and for good reason. They posted a ridiculous 1.38 ERA in the playoffs. The back end of the bullpen became nightmare fuel for teams who were down late in games, as Abner Uribe, Trevor Megill, Aaron Ashby, JoJo Romero, and DL Hall massacred opposing lineups. The shining star of that elite bullpen was Ashby, who broke the record for consecutive scoreless playoff innings. He did not allow a run in the 18 innings he threw.
William “Wild Bill” Contreras took home much-deserved World Series MVP honors. The Brewers catcher was the heart and soul of this team all season, and he showed out in the playoffs. Contreras hit .381 in the fall classic. His impact was felt beyond the bat, though, as he was 10 for 13 on his ABS challenges. He also garnered praise from nearly every Brewers pitcher for his work behind the plate. Jacob Misiorowski, especially, was vocal in his thanks to Contreras in his postgame interview. When asked how he handled the emotions of the game, he responded: “Through Bill.”
Perhaps lost in Contreras winning MVP was the performance by Milwaukee’s young superstar Jackson Chourio. He joined Babe Ruth as the only players with 10 hits in the first four games of a World Series.
Christian Yelich, named Milwaukee’s captain before the playoffs, was emotional reflecting on the late Bob Uecker after the win. “Uecky, I love you, man, and we did it,” said Yelich. Uecker had been a part of the Milwaukee culture since his playing days in the 1950’s, but really enamored Brewers fans as a broadcaster. He was a staple of Brewers radio broadcasts until his death in 2025. A common sentiment among the Milwaukee faithful was “Do it for Ueck”.
This day will certainly be burned into the memories of sports fans across Wisconsin forever.
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