SportsWrap, 10/28/2026

anywhere because we are live as the celebration continues. The Milwaukee Brewers are world champions. The Brewers take down the Rays in five games and claim their first ever World Series Championship. We've got all the reaction coming up as Sports Wrap starts right now. 611 Sports Wrap, sponsored by your Toyota dealers. Well, they finally did it. We knew someone was going to be a first-time champion, and it is the Milwaukee Brewers. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this very special World Series edition of Sports Wrap alongside Trent Rush. I'm Kyle Kraska. Historic moment for the Milwaukee Brewers and all of their fans. The celebration will go deep into the night. The champagne is flowing right now in the clubhouse, and we're going to take you there in a moment. But let's just talk about the significance of this and how the Brewers did it because it seemed season after season they got to the postseason and we just waited to see how they would falter. And this time they did it with a brand of baseball that I think surprised some people. Yeah, it wasn't just that they did it. It was how they did it, Kyle. It was amazing how this Milwaukee team was able to play so well as a team. They really epitomized what is team baseball in the way that they played, the way that they responded, the way that they won. a championship now when the rest of baseball has gone the way of the three true outcomes and trying to hit a lot of home runs this Milwaukee team was about putting the ball in play cutting down on strikeouts putting a value on pitching and defense they did so much right this year that's gone away from the game of baseball and it's not an anti-analytic stance to do that they use the numbers they use the analytics to put themselves in the right position to do all those things this was top to bottom the front office the coaching staff all 26 guys on the roster this is everybody coming together they were a 103 win team in the regular season dominated throughout the post season this was as good as it gets as far as baseball is concerned and their worthy champion was crowned tonight 11 and 2 in this postseason run and if you combine that with what they did during the regular season the fifth best overall record of all time so do you put this team with some of the greatest of all time i don't know that i'm ready to go there i am ready to go in terms of you know you look at the last 25 years and the teams that we've seen we're gonna all talk about what the Dodgers did and what they did in 24 and 25 is there the same star power on this Milwaukee team of course there isn't but the amount of contributors and the guys that understood their role to be able to help the team win at the end of the day that was the biggest difference and and you're not going to look at this team historically and going man they had so many great players so many Hall of Famers this team is not that but they are an all-time great team in the way that they won games by the way the early odds are already out for next season Brewers picked to finish second at least second in the shortest odds it of course is the Los Angeles Dodgers uh leading that category why don't we take a look at the highlights from tonight's game five in case you missed it Rays looking to build on the momentum of last night's extra innings win The Brewers with two on here in the first. Cooper Pratt lines one over Ben Williamson. Bryce Turang comes around to score from second. Sam Freelick trying to get there too, but Pratt gets caught in a pickle. Trying to get two bags. Instead, he is tagged out, and Freelick would stay at third base. Brewers would finish the frame with just the one run. Maybe missing out on an opportunity. They do take a 1-0 lead. Same score in the fourth. Rays with two in scoring position. Williamson bouncing the Jacob Mizell fastball to third. David Hamilton fires to first. Jake Bowers, a nice stretch to get the out. They escape the jam. The Brewers leave the inning unscathed. And they would add on in the next inning. Hamilton drives that one through the infield, bringing home Pratt. A big RBI single ups Milwaukee's advantage to 2-0. The Miz still on the bump in the fifth, facing Yandy Diaz. And with two outs, gets him swinging for the strikeout. Mizorowski roaring with emotion. Just two hits allowed in five-plus innings. Sixth inning, William Contreras driving the Garrett Clevenger pitch to deep left. It's into the corner. Christian Yelich on his way from first. He's going to score. Brewers take a 3-0. This was the backbreaker. A 1-0 slider runs into Contreras. He's not really known for being a breaking ball hitter. Does most of his damage against the fastball? Well, he did some real damage here. Sends it into the corner right after Mizorowski's shutdown inning. He puts momentum back up for the Brewers. It would become a 4-1 ball game in the bottom of the ninth after a Chandler Simpson double put the Rays on the board. Brewers now one out away from the title. Richie Palacios pinch hitting. Bounces the Trevor McGill fastball to second. That is the ball game. The Brewers taking game five, 4-1, and they win their first ever World Series championship. We talked about William Contreras a lot last night and just the brand of baseball, the fact he has done everything well throughout this postseason. He was named the MVP of the World Series. What a series for him. And he just seemed to do it all. The clutch moments. He batted .444 in the World Series. It was really the entire World Series, the entire postseason. And we're going to talk a lot about what he did offensively. And you know what? Rightfully so. But his ability to throw out runners. He threw out three base runners or four base runners in this fall classic. It guided this pitching staff in the bullpen. It was phenomenal on the ABS reviews. 10 for 13 on that so yeah he had the offense going but it was the collection of everything and I don't think it's a small thing how he was able to help navigate these pitchers through this Tampa team especially the top of that lineup and the top of Tampa's lineup is really good and for the bullpen to be as great as they were for the starting pitchers to be as excellent as they were a lot of that has to do with who's back there the backstop makes a big difference I think William Contreras deserves as much credit as the pitchers do for getting the job done as far as that side of the game goes. It was uncanny throughout this postseason run and here in the World Series when you gave the Brewers an opportunity. You give them an inch, and they just seem to always capitalize on it, and they did that in that sixth inning. Christian Yelich getting a leadoff walk, and then Contreras comes to the plate and makes the race pay. Yeah, and I know that Dodger fans are well aware of what Milwaukee can do. If you give them an inch, they will take a mile, And they did it again in this game, especially in this situation. You never want the free pass, the leadoff man. So Yellich gets hit, and that is what set up William Contreras to come up here. And then he hits this double down the left field line. We were talking about that slider in. Contreras just takes it with him and able to send it there. But after Turang singled, he was able to steal second base. So second and third one out, takes the double play away. Walls comes in for Clevenger. This is the stolen base we're talking about here. So all of a sudden now, like I said, two in scoring position. This is an interesting play here. Pratt sends this one to Valade in right field, and he had the option. He could have let that one drop. Where he picked it up, because he was standing on the mound, he wasn't going to be able to get a great throw in. Well, the run ends up coming around to score. It was a pretty good throw. It was a better play than I think we expected in that situation, but that add-on run was huge for this Milwaukee team. Every time it felt like Tampa made mistakes, And they didn't make all that many tonight. The Brewers were there to take advantage. It's what they've done all October. Really all season, Kyle. Jacob Mizorowski on the bump for the Brewers. There was a really cool stat coming into this game. We talked about it as we watched the game together. The fact that he came in with an opportunity to become the first pitcher since Earl Hershiser 38 years ago to win the Cy Young Award, which we presume he will, and to close out the clinching game of a World Series. And he came in and he did exactly that. Yeah, we really hadn't seen him go all that deep in the games this World Series. And I still don't think this was first half Jacob Mizorowski when he was just dominating everybody. But we still effective. Got this strikeout here of Diaz in the fifth. A big shutdown inning. The fifth inning is a key inning anyway, right after the Brewers had scored. But here he is in the sixth inning trying to get through it. Something happens here. It looks like he is cramped up. Some issue with his leg in this situation. And he ends up having to come out of the game. And it was a shame that he did because it looked like he was just starting to get comfortable here. He got 41 swings, only nine misses on those 49 swings. That's a low number for him. Only had two strikeouts in this game. That's a low number for him. Tied the fewest of his entire career. So for Mizorowski to have that little swing and miss, to have that few of strikeouts, but still pitch as well as he did, it may not have been the very best version of Jacob Mizorowski tonight. But I do think as a pitcher, as a competitor, he took a step forward because he was able to grind through it on a big stage with all the pressure, all the nerves. He talked about he woke up this morning, he was wanting to throw up before the night even got going here. And to handle all that and still get the job done, man, tip your cap. 24 years old, and he's got the whole world ahead of him. Well, the Miz finished this season, if you count the regular season and postseason, with a record of 18-5. The last time he lost a game was August 2nd. So even though down the stretch he didn't necessarily, as you said, have his best stuff, he still found a way to win. So you have to figure with the Brewers losing that game four in painful fashion last night in extra innings, knowing that you had a guy on the bump, that the last 12 times he went out there for you, you won. Ironically, that August 2nd game against the Angels. Walbert Gerrani outpitched him in that game. And Mizorowski also is kind of interesting. He struck out 10 in that game. That was the last time he had double-digit strikeouts. I think Mizorowski found a way to evolve as a pitcher. And that's the biggest thing for him. And, man, it's so impressive to do that at 24 years old. He has to keep evolving. He's got a very firm fastball. He still is working on the secondary stuff. That fastball is not going to live at 103 or sit 101 the rest of his career. He's got to be able to develop a changeup. He's got to keep getting better because teams at some point are going to be able to hit his fastball. But he was the best pitcher in baseball this year. He was the best pitcher in the World Series. and now he's got a lot of hardware, including the most important one, a World Series ring. When Kevin Burkhardt was looking to hand out the MVP trophy, he made a great statement. He turned around and said, you know, this could go to so many of all of these Brewers players. There were so many contributions. So let's talk about what we saw throughout the World Series because it just seemed it was every night another guy stepping up and making a big play. You're not kidding. I mean, the depth of this team and everybody rising to the moment. A lot of unexpected guys coming through. I mean, I think first, think about Christian Yelich for a moment. Christian Yelich, who had a horrendous postseason last year. He finished in a 1-for-24, and here he is in Game 1, setting the tone in the first inning, gets this triple to get the Brewers going. Right after their sweep of the Dodgers, it's like, oh, gosh, if you're Tampa, man, what a juggernaut this Milwaukee team is coming in. Brice Turang, we know what he can do defensively, but he came up in a really big situation in this Fall Classic. Again, it's just one guy after another. David Hamilton, four homers all year. It's the big one on Diaz in the NLCS. And then this, you know, last night to tie the game in Game 4. And then who could forget this? Cooper Pratt in the 12th inning last night. We thought this was going to be the biggest swing in Milwaukee Brewers history. They end up not winning the game. But Cooper Pratt, in June, he was in the minor leagues in spring training. Everyone was talking about him. Oh, he's the number 67 prospect in baseball. coming in and here he is dominating in a big situation in the World Series I mean at one point he had six straight hits and then has a sacrifice fly to bring in another run this guy came through and every which way so many of these Brewers guys did it was incredible and this is why we talk about team baseball understanding how to hit in different situations this team does it all why don't we go inside the clubhouse right now the celebration is on and just moments ago this is Brewers manager, Pat Murphy. So you sent me a text today. You said, look, I helped you against the Padres. And I messed with the Dodgers a little bit. And then you came here and you're on your own because we had a doubleheader and they actually let me catch the last three innings of the game. But you did it for the city. You did it for the state. And you boys ought to be awfully proud to know that you're the first ever Milwaukee Brewer team to be world champions. What a great scene. And, you know, they talked about that on the broadcast, how he was apparently writing letters as though they were from Bob Uecker, the late, great Bob Uecker, broadcast Brewers games for 54 years, died last January after a bout with cancer, and he's kind of carried him through the season, hasn't he? He's always kind of been present in some way. What a character he was, and I'm sure he's looking down right now as thrilled as can be. Yeah, the significance what Bob Uecker meant, and still means, to the Brewers organization is truly unmatched. I mean, the only comparison you can make would be what Vin Scully means to the Dodgers. That's Bob Uecker in Milwaukee. And that was pretty cool, right? You know, they say pour one out for Ueck. Well, they sprayed one out for Ueck tonight, getting to spray the champagne. What a neat moment there, and congratulations to the Brewers. All right, we are just getting started here on this championship edition of Sports Wrap. Stick around. The Brewers, of course, winning their first ever World Series title. We'll have more from St. Pete, Florida, right after this. Fox 11 Sports Wrap is brought to you by your Toyota dealers. It's the easy choice sales event at your Toyota dealers. Check out the biggest selection of Tacomas and Tundras. We make it easy. The Milwaukee Brewers take down the Rays in five games to win their first World Series title in franchise history. Brewers displaying dominance throughout the entire month of October, going 11-2 over the 13-game stretch en route to winning it all. So the Brewers cement their place in history with this dominant run, finishing the playoffs with that 11-2 record. That is tied for the third-best record in the wild-card era. Only two teams finished 11-1 throughout their postseason run. That was the 2005 White Sox and the 1999 Yankees. Milwaukee also rattled off eight straight wins before losing game four last night. And that tied the all-time record for consecutive wins in a single postseason. In other words, the Brewers have been pretty darn good. Welcome back to this World Series edition of Sports Shop. I'm Kyle Kraska. He's the brainiac of the operation, Trent Rush. Let's talk about all of the contributions they got from so many different players. You mentioned Cooper Pratt earlier. I mean, just where did he come from, right? and to have the kind of games he had the last two nights is really special. It really was. I mean, and to think, too, the way that this had gone for him to start off the World Series, he had started in a 2-for-12. So it's not like it was all smooth sailing for Cooper Pratt. Just one of many in a long line of unexpected stars for the Brewers here in this Fall Classic. And then he ends up going 6-for-6 after that 2-for-12. Hits the home run last night. The big moment there was really big in this game tonight for a player that debuted on June the 16th. only played half a season at the Major League level, has huge moment after huge moment in this World Series. Even the sac fly in the game tonight. I know he got this big hit to set things up early on, but to be able to not just drive in that run, but bring in another run later by sending the deep fly ball in a situation where you had to make contact. And that's the difference that this Brewers team, of course, everyone wants to get excited about the big home runs and the big swings we saw. But understanding the situation of, hey, there's two guys in scoring position, second and third, less than two outs. As long as they make some contact, put the ball on the right side of the field, it's going to be a chance to add on a run. That's what he did. You don't even have to get a hit to be a key contributor, but Pratt did rack up plenty of those. The last three guys in the order for the Brewers had four hits tonight. And David Hamilton, here's a guy that the last two months of the season hit two home runs, comes into the postseason and he hits two home runs. And there were times where we're thinking, well, gee, Maybe this is a bunt situation with your No. 9 guy. Instead, Pat Murphy lets him hit away and ropes a really important RBI single. Yeah, who is David Hamilton? Did you know who David Hamilton was before this playoffs? I know you do now for what he's been able to do. Brewers got him in a trade with the Red Sox back in February. This postseason, he ends up batting .333 with a .950 OPS. That's not bad for a part-time player. And to think about what he was able to do in Game 4 of the NLCS, You know, he hits the home run to tie the game last night. And then in this game, where you have the defense in, infield is in, and he just knows hit the ball hard, put it in play, it's going to lead to a good result. That's what has made this Brewers team, I think, so special. For a team that was 28th in home runs this year, they were second in runs scored. It's because of the value of contact, and they have a whole cast of characters that really embody that and bought into the team philosophy. How about a guy like Jackson Chourio, who has 10 hits in the first four games of this World Series, not the most valuable player, but another hit for him tonight. Had a rough go of it in the last night's game, number of strikeouts, but made a great catch out in left field. This guy just does it all, and he's just 22 years old. Okay, Chourio's a little different from some of the other guys. This is a player who knows what his career is going to be. This is a multiple-time All-Star. This is one of those rare players that is going to have a chance to where if he lives up to his potential and continues this, he will be talked about maybe in those Hall of Fame conversations if he keeps this up for the next decade. Long way to go, obviously, but that goes 11 for 24 in the World Series, steals three bags, he's got power, he's got speed, he's got defense, and he's got poise. I think he's really mature for being a 22-year-old. So Chourio was advertised the next big thing in Milwaukee for a while, and now he is the big thing in Milwaukee and is going to be now forever. or eternally a star for the Brewers for what he was able to do in this fall classic. And I know we talked already about Christian Yelich, but I think it certainly deserves a little bit more giving him his flowers for the length of time he's been with this Brewer organization. He's the only remaining member of that 2018 team that went to the NLCS. And, you know, the fact he's a local kid as well. You know, the Thousand Oaks, and to see him get to this point in his career where, as you pointed out last night, you know, he's on the downslide. here but had his moments in this world series and in these playoffs and to have him get his championship is really cool and this is a far cry from 2018 mvp christian yellich but the redemption story how bad he was in the playoffs last year how close probably to being on the brink of shutting it down as christian yellich how many good years does yellich have left i don't know but he had a really good fall classic and he has a world series ring now to boot it's impressive what he was able to do he has four hits in this world series i just think it's an outstanding redemption story the local tie to southern california and you know what can you give the guy a little credit for just being a good dude right i mean that's been something you talk to anybody in southern california he hosts a lot of charity events he does so much good work in the community here does it in milwaukee a lot of value there for Christian Yelich and by the way he says he learned a lot of that from Bob Uecker was very close with Bob Uecker and he said bob told him that no matter who you're talking to you treat everybody the absolute same uh the mvp William Contreras is right now live at the podium let's go back to tampa bay uh this is something like i said that we just work really really hard for so um you know to be able to achieve it it's special you said you wanted to bring home two trophies to venezuela was the mvp trophy a third goal as well Yes, of course, of course. I'm going to have that trophy no matter what. It's a blessing, it's a blessing to achieve this, especially with my Milwaukee people. They've never done it before. I think we're going to stay with God's favor for history. And, well, we work for that. Obviously, I'm going to have my trophy at home. written history, you know, with them and get to celebrate this with them. So, again, I'm very happy. William, congratulations. It's such a young pitching staff that you have to guide. What were you able to do to get the most out of such a young staff, including Mr. Oscar? Yes, it's great. It's something that I had to do in spring training. Since I was on vacation at my house, I knew that we were going to have pitchers. Since Freddy left, I knew that we were going to have pitchers, very young. Yeah, definitely. I think it's a big job. You know, I think in the offseason last year, I think once we traded Freddie, I knew that that was going to be, you know, we were going to have a young staff, like you said. So I took that upon myself, and I knew the responsibility that I was going to have that year to make sure that I built that relationship with those guys and made sure that they knew that they had that vote of confidence in me and knew that I was going to do whatever I could for them so that we could build our relationship together. So I knew it was going to be a good job, but credit to them for a tremendous year that all of them had. All right, there's the MVP of the World Series, William Contreras. This is an option year, a team option year for him, a $14 million option. That's a no-brainer for them to pick that up. The question is, what is the future? Because then he becomes a free agent. And you know, the Brewers haven't messed around. I mean, they shuffled the deck season in and season out. So what do you think the future is for Contreras? Well, we'll have to see. At least for next year, Contreras is going to be here. But let's also think about this for a second. Contreras got two championships this year. He was in that World Baseball Classic team for Venezuela when they won it all back in March. But what was interesting there, he went 0 for 13 in that WBC. And I can only imagine, while he's excited to have won for his country, he really wasn't that big of a contributor, at least offensively. So now to get this opportunity in the World Series in the same calendar year to come through like this, that had to feel really good for him. And there's nobody that gets two championships in one year except for William Contreras and Jackson Curio. That's it. And we'll see what the future lies in store. I do know that a lot of this Brewers team is coming back. They'll focus on 2027 before they start to worry about 2028. But that core is going to be intact for some time. Yeah, and throw in that MVP trophy for William Contreras as well. We're going to take another quick time out here on this special World Series edition of Sports Wrap. Don't go anywhere. By the way, this was the reaction at American Family Field in Milwaukee as the Brewers clinched their World Series championship. Coming up, much more on this title run. Stick around. Sports Wrap continues. Welcome back. Welcome back after the final out. Not just the thousands of Brewers fans celebrating at the Trop, but thousands more celebrating in Milwaukee at a sold-out American Family Field. and in the Deer District as well. This, by the way, is the city of Milwaukee's first major sports title since the Bucks won it all in 2021. That's the best feeling ever. We can't wait to go home and celebrate with everybody. When you saw that final out, what went through your mind? I thought about Bob Uecker. I mean, I hugged my son. I thought about all the people like Robin Yount and Bud Selig And all of our friends at home, just everybody in Wisconsin, I mean, they've waited so long for this. And so well-deserved for everyone there. I just am so thankful for everyone to hang with us for so many years. And they're all a part of this, and we're bringing it home for them. And we welcome you back into our Fox LA studios. We are talking World Series, the Brewers, world champions for the first time ever, along with Trent Rush. I'm Kyle Krasick. You know, one thing I think is really cool is when a franchise does win it for the first time. because you think about the fan base and you think about how long this fan base has been waiting and not just this generation, but past generations, right? So these are the moments where you start calling your family members, right? You start, you know, you're calling your dad and you're calling your grandma, your granddad and saying, we did it. It's here. It's happened finally. This is the kind of moment that is going to live on forever. And they're going to have this for the rest of their lives. And everyone's going to remember in the state of Wisconsin, And everybody will remember where were you on this October the 28th when the Brewers get the World Series win for the first time in franchise history. For all the games you go to, the season ticket holders, all this, the memories, this trumps them all. Yeah. Who's up next that hasn't won the title, the Rays still, without a world championship? You've got the Padres down in San Diego. You've got the Seattle Mariners and the Colorado Rockies, right, would be the final four. There it is. you know we could point at so many different aspects of this Brewers team but you gotta talk about the bullpen and it just seemed if you got into the late innings and you had a lead then other than last night where they basically ran out of bullpen pitchers uh would you got into these kind of situations it was almost a sure thing well the guts of this Brewers bullpen was so deep that was so impressive they're really I mean you could talk four guys that you could lose He doesn't use in any high-leverage situation. McGill, obviously, the closer, and to have D.L. Hall be able to do what he did. But, man, how about Abner Uribe? Just how ridiculous. He was electrifying watching this guy on the mound here through these playoffs. I just thought that it was, again, every time we saw him, he was excellent. In this World Series, he goes five and a third without giving up a run. I mean, to have Abner Uribe deliver like that. And then the big guy, you have to talk about Aaron Ashby and the job that Ashby did in this World Series. So how about this? In the playoffs, 18 innings, he gave up no runs, no earned runs, and five hits. Unbelievable how good Ashby was in the World Series, five and two-thirds, scoreless innings. Nobody was touching him, and it wasn't just the amount of outs that he got. He got 18 innings. That's two complete games in this playoff run. But in the highest leverage situations, the most pressure, everything on the line, when Uribe and Abner and we saw Ashby come into these games, those guys came up in so many big situations, incredibly impressive. Yeah, it's unfortunate for the Brewers that Ashby was needed yesterday and threw so many pitches, I think 38 pitches out of the bullpen. So we didn't see him in this game. I'm sure he would have loved to have pitched in a clinching game. But, hey, it's all good. Brewers are champs. It's all good. All right, we'll take another quick timeout here on this World Series edition of SportsWrap. There they are with the trophy, the Commissioner's Trophy. Pat Murphy and, oh, Robin Yount looking on from the crowd. Man, we talk about an all-time great right there and a great Brewer. We're back with more right after this. Welcome back. The Brewers win Game 5, 4-1 tonight. Their signature style of small ball offense, getting it done. After losing it in their only other World Series appearance way back in 1982, 58 seasons since beginning their franchise, the Brewers finally win the Fall Classic title. It's unbelievable. This is a dream. Dream come true for sure. This team, I mean, the guys, the bond we've created, I mean, we'll have it forever. Man, I haven't had much time to really, like, feel it, But right now, it feels great. I enjoy every one of these guys, man. So cool. Congratulations to the Brewers. All right, let's see how they got it done in winning their first ever World Series championship. We've got our man Trent now sporting lumber. Yeah. He's going to go extra innings for us. Why not? How did the Brewers get it done? Well, they did it with a lot of this and not a lot of this. Let me tell you, two-strike approach was a huge thing that the Brewers had all season long, and we definitely saw it in this World Series. And you think about the different times guys would come up, not trying to hit the ball out of the ballpark, but shortening up a little bit and really focusing on putting the ball in play. That was a big thing that we saw really throughout the entire fall classic. You can go back to some of the hits that William Contreras had in this World Series. Even early on, you win the MVP not by being the guy that's going to hit all the big home runs, but by being the guy that's going to come through in some key situations. Putting the ball in play, we saw Sal Frelick hit one, a big home run as well. Again, in these kind of situations, look at the big board here again. Just putting the ball in play, creating action with two strikes. It's so important to be able to do that. And the other part, and it's the Frelick home run that I'm talking about here. Yeah, it was a short enough approach, but you know what? He goes, hey, I can go deep as well, and he does it with two strikes. Really good at-bats in those situations. but it's not just being able to do that it's being able to use the entire field no team in baseball was better that this year than the Milwaukee Brewers they went the other way more than anybody else in the game and we saw that come up time and time again throughout this World Series throughout this 103 win regular season dropping into different situations sure enough it's Contreras in a big spot once again that's just what he does and then come on we got to talk about these guys how crazy good was the bullpen throughout this entire Fall Classic. They got a 1.32 ERA through the postseason. It's going to go down as the top two or three bullpen ever in history for what they were able to do. 68 bullpen innings, and they were lights out. Ashby, you got to make a case. Okay, I know that Aaron Ashby is not going to be in the conversation for being an MVP. Of course, it's William Contreras, but I think he can make a pretty good argument. He could at least have been in consideration for how big he was stepping up in so many big moments and you think by the way you look good carrying that big you know that's a good that's a yeah it's about a 34 maybe i think so maybe at 35 when you look at this team and when you look ahead now to next year i mentioned earlier that they've got the second shortest odds to repeat as World Series champions with the Dodgers being the favorites this team doesn't have a lot of free agents coming up we mentioned Contreras he'll get his option picked up but as far as free agents this is a team that's going to kind of come back next year how do you think they set up for long term yeah it's really interesting you know i'd said on Good Day LA a little bit earlier uh throughout this playoff run that the Dodgers were going to come back with the best roster in baseball to start 2027 that's still very may well be true but man the way these Brewers played if they can continue this very difficult to do if they can i could see this Brewers team being able to run it back because that entire core is returning and you talk about how different they played and do you think other teams may look at this style of play and try to start designing their rosters similar to this it's a copycat league and i think every owner out there saying wait a minute how come the team that's 18th in payroll just won the World Series why are we spending all this money and we're not the team that's winning i think a lot of people are going to be asking those kinds of questions and it's because of how Milwaukee played some people want to call it old school i like to call it just baseball and i think that the Brewers went back to a lot of those fundamentals but to their credit they also used a lot of analytics to defend and back up those same principles and also their positioning i think defensively they were in the right spots a lot more than some other teams i'll tell you i thought it was a fun brand of baseball to watch throughout this postseason except when they were beating the Dodgers we'll take another quick time i'll be back with more of this World Series edition of sports wrap right after this welcome back champagne showers for the Brew Crew as they celebrate their first ever World Series championship knocking off the Rays in five games of world Series play the beer is flowing in St. Petersburg but i imagine it's going to be rolling all night long in the state of Wisconsin what happens in your mind and your body we couldn't see what'd you do when that last out was made just came sprinting out and it just you know you're just floating running out there on that field so your mind finally clears and you're like holy cow we did it we're done there's no more baseball to be played so it's a lot of fun it's unreal you know i don't think there's words to describe this it's a lot of fun there he is the Miz he will be the Cy Young Award winner of the National League Jacob Mizerowski pitched a brilliant game just allowed two hits tonight in five and two-thirds innings of work we thought he was going to go six but he strained apparently strained a right calf muscle and had to come out of the game and you could see i mean he did not want to come out of the baseball game no he did not and you know what of all injuries that's the one you'll take thank goodness it was nothing to do with that arm of his that said you know we saw Pat Murphy to start off uh this segment here coming out of break and to see that man a true baseball man who's been through it through the college game worked back into baseball worked his way through the coaching staff got in some later stages of his career finally getting the opportunity to be a manager and not just be a manager but now a World Series champion manager very cool story it really is a great story all right we're going to take one more time off and when we come back we'll head back out to the Trop in Saint Petersburg Florida and we'll wrap up our coverage of game five of the World Series what a moment for the Milwaukee Brewers and their fans legions of fans that have been waiting for this night for a very, very long time, basically forever. The Milwaukee Brewers are world champions of baseball. Here's their manager, Pat Murphy About 2026 and the group of guys that made the commitment, you know, as boss would say, to be the last man standing, you know? And that's what I focus on right now. They went after it. They were on common mindset. They cared about each other. They set standards. They're undaunted when things weren't going well, like last night, undaunted. Came back today and we're focused. Well, he just proved to be the perfect guy for the job, right? And I told this story a little bit last night about Pat Murphy back in 2015. He was managing in Triple-A El Paso for the San Diego Padres. Buddy Black was fired. He was brought in as the interim manager to finish that season. But then he was let go. And so he went on to the Milwaukee Brewers as a coach and was there for eight years before they gave him the managerial position. And in a very short time, from 2023 to now, he's turned them into champions. To say that he's earned it is a massive understatement. I mean, for everything, he's just, the way he brings his personality to the table, it's so classic baseball, everything that he does. And he's brought a classic baseball style mixed in with a lot of the advanced analytics that that Brewers team uses to put together, I think, a brand of baseball that's about contact first with great pitching. that's why they're champions and Pat Murphy is a big reason why not to end this show on a sour note but this may be the last time we watch baseball for a long time they are certainly expecting there to be a labor stoppage at some point during this offseason early december is when they'll likely be a lockout and there's going to be changes made right um what does this win first of all by the Brewers, the smallest market in Major League Baseball. What does this do to the whole conversation about oh, you know, it's only the big market teams that win championships? I think the perception from the fans is now going to tip back probably the players' way. Hey, wait a second. Why are you trying to put a salary cap in? The team that was 18th in payroll just won the World Series. They dethroned the mighty Dodgers who had won the previous two. But it's not going to change the owner's stance of saying, wait a minute, the Dodgers won the two in a row. They're able to go get every player. They can spend a ridiculous payroll, and it's just not fair. There has to be some kind of cap, and I know a floor is going to be in the conversation. All the other leagues do it. Why not baseball? So in terms of perception from the fans, I think this World Series changes things. In terms of reality, hate to break it to you, Kyle. I don't think it changes much. Really? Yeah. And what do you anticipate for a season next year? Could we possibly not have a season? You know, call me an optimist. I have a hard time believing the people that say, wait, we're going to see the entire season go by the wayside. I think there's just far too much to lose in the game of baseball for that to be the case. Could there be a shortened spring training, maybe an eliminated spring training? Certainly. Could we miss some time to begin the season? Absolutely. All of that's in play. I'm just not a doomsday-ber. I'm not a doomsday-ber. Save it, save it. I'm not going to miss the whole year or anything close to that. We are out of time. For Trend Rush, I'm Kyle Kraska. for our entire crew that puts this show on each and every night throughout the postseason. Thanks to them, and we appreciate you hanging with us for the final game of the World Series. Let the baseball continue. Have a great night, everybody. We'll see you next time.