Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras holds the MVP trophy after successful baseball’s World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The small-ball Milwaukee Brewers taking part in in the smallest market in the majors are World Series champions for the first time.

Hey, Milwaukee: seize a brat, increase a beer and put together for that parade.

Young ace Jacob Misiorowski threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings, rookie Cooper Pratt had two more hits and two RBIs, and Milwaukee beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday night time to set off a long-awaited celebration among 1000’s of Brewers followers in attendance at Tropicana Field.

“It’s the best feeling ever. All of our fans are here. I know the city’s waited a long, long time for this,” captain Christian Yelich said. “We’re so happy to bring it home to them. I can’t wait to get back there and celebrate.”

World Series MVP William Contreras hit an RBI double and Misiorowski allowed just two hits before leaving the sport because of a proper calf cramp. He got a standing ovation from the Brew-Crew followers, who took over the part behind Milwaukee’s dugout for the last three video games.

The 22-year-old Pratt set a Series rookie file with six straight hits before his sacrifice fly in the sixth. Jackson Chourio set a five-game Series file with 11 hits.

“This is one of the greatest moments of my life. Oh my gosh. It doesn’t even feel real,” said Pratt, who made his main league debut in June. “This is surreal. It only took four months!”

The championship comes in the 58th season for a franchise that started as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and moved to Milwaukee the following 12 months. The Brewers’ only earlier journey to the World Series in 1982 ended in heartbreak when they blew a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning of Game 7 and lost 6-3 to the St. Louis Cardinals.

But this staff displayed the toughness and resilience of 67-year-old supervisor Pat Murphy, who survived a coronary heart attack in 2020 and was the NL Manager of the Year in his first two full seasons at the helm in 2024 and 2025.

“This group of guys right here, the 2026 team, will be remembered forever — and they deserve that because they were a team,” Murphy said. “They’re not worried about their own stats. No one cares about that. They care about coming together and winning tonight.”

The Milwaukee Brewers have a good time after successful baseball’s World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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With their flame-throwing, 24-year-old two-time All-Star on the mound, the Brewers rebounded from a heartbreaking, 4-3 extra-inning loss in Game 4 when they were three outs from a sweep in the twelfth before a stellar bullpen lastly faltered.

Pitching on 4 days’ relaxation for only the fifth time in 34 begins this season, including the playoffs, The Miz had his longest outing since throwing 6 1/3 innings against the Cubs on Sept. 8. Leg cramps also compelled him out of two outings earlier in the season.

“I don’t even have words,” Misiorowski said. “It’s amazing, just watching my guys celebrate. And the city — I know they’re going crazy in Milwaukee. It’s awesome.”

Misiorowski, who broke the World Series velocity file with a 103.5 mph fastball on the first pitch of the Series last Friday, opened with 12 straight four-seamers between 100.9-103 mph. He topped out at 103 twice among his 86 pitches, 58 strikes.

The right-hander did not file a strikeout in the first three innings for the first time in his two-year profession and completed with two, matching his profession low. He was fired up after Yandy Díaz missed a cutter to finish the fifth. The Miz pumped his fist twice and punched the air strolling off the mound.

The NL Cy Young Award favourite allowed one run over 5 innings to get his first postseason win as a starter in a 3-2 victory in the opener. He was 2-0 with a 0.84 ERA in the Series.

JoJo Romero got two outs, Abner Uribe recorded two more and nearer Trevor Megill pitched the last two innings, permitting an RBI double to Chandler Simpson with two outs in the ninth.

Megill retired Richie Palacios on a grounder to second to finish it, threw his arms in the air and was mobbed by teammates close to the mound while Brewers followers celebrated in the stands.

“Milwaukee has waited 44 years, and Milwaukee, you have your world championship,” Brewers proprietor Mark Attanasio said from the postgame stage on the area.

Pratt, who was 4 for 5 with a tiebreaking solo homer in the twelfth inning of Game 4, gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead with an RBI single against Rays ace Drew Rasmussen in the second. Pratt singled for his sixth straight hit in the Series in the fifth and scored on David Hamilton’s single off Kevin Kelly.

Contreras hit an RBI double off Garrett Cleavinger in the sixth and Pratt added a sac fly to make it 4-0.

Pitching on three days’ relaxation, Rasmussen went deeper than he did in Game 2, permitting one run and two hits in 4 innings. He had a 4-0 lead before he took the mound in Milwaukee on Saturday but could not maintain it, lasting only 3 2/3 innings as the Brewers rallied for a 5-4 victory.

Rasmussen retired his first 4 batters before Brice Turang lined a double to left-center. Sal Frelick was hit by a pitch and Pratt ripped an RBI single to heart but was thrown out in a well-executed rundown between first and second.

The Rays had runners on second and third with two outs in the fourth but Ben Williamson grounded out. Williamson, who was 1 for 15 in the postseason before his game-winning single in the twelfth inning of Game 4, began over the lefty-swinging Palacios.

Kelly changed Rasmussen to begin the fifth and allowed consecutive one-out singles to Pratt, Garrett Mitchell and Hamilton.

The groups mixed to hit just 4 homers in the Series, three for Milwaukee. The Brewers scored a main league-low 32.1% of their runs on homers and Tampa Bay was second-lowest at 34.4%, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The Brewers led the majors with 103 wins in the common season and went 11-2 in the postseason, including seven comeback wins and a sweep of the mighty Dodgers in the NLCS.

Milwaukee’s only other MLB championship was won in 1957 by the Braves, who moved to Atlanta for the 1966 season.

Murphy’s staff completed what Harvey Kuenn’s star-studded crew could not accomplish 44 years in the past as the AL champions. Harvey’s Wallbangers had 5 Hall of Famers: Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Ted Simmons, Don Sutton and Rollie Fingers, who missed the postseason with a forearm harm. They also had Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Uecker in the sales space.

The Rays, an enlargement staff that debuted in 1998, dropped to 0-3 in the World Series after defeats in 2008 and 2020. The only other golf equipment to lose in their first three Series appearances were the Brooklyn Dodgers (0-7) and Detroit Tigers (0-4), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

“They’re banged-up and hurting right now, but just grateful for the way they carried themselves all season long, winning a bunch of games. It’s as close-knit of a group as I’ve ever been around,” Tampa Bay supervisor Kevin Cash said.

This might have been the last Major League Baseball sport for an prolonged interval.

The Milwaukee Brewers have a good time after successful baseball’s World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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The Brewers won the World Series at a time when homeowners are pushing for a wage cap from the gamers’ affiliation because they keep small-market groups can’t recurrently succeed. A administration lockout is probably to begin Dec. 2 and could threaten the 2027 season.

This was the first Series since 1991 between groups in the backside half of payrolls. The Brewers ranked nineteenth as of Aug. 31 and Rays were twenty fifth.

The Rays were attempting to become the first staff to fall behind 3-0 in a World Series and pressure a sixth sport. Of the 26 groups that lost the first three video games, 21 were swept and Tampa Bay grew to become the fifth to lose in Game 5.