{"id":797,"date":"2026-10-29T20:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:10:23","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-win-first-world-series-57-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS JUST WON THE WORLD SERIES! | Smallest market, 19th-highest payroll, 57 years of waiting, and they made the Rays look like spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS! The <strong>Milwaukee Brewers<\/strong> are champions of baseball for the first time in franchise history, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/baseball\/articles\/c5x2v991l0lvo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee beat the <strong>Tampa Bay Rays 4-1<\/strong> in game five in Florida on Wednesday to take the best-of-seven Fall Classic <strong>4-1<\/strong>. The Brewers&#8217; only previous World Series trip was in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>This is the little guy&#8217;s title. The Brewers play in Major League Baseball&#8217;s <strong>smallest market<\/strong> and had only the <strong>19th-highest payroll<\/strong> of 30 teams this year. They still posted MLB&#8217;s best regular-season record for the second straight year, swept the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS, and went <strong>11-2<\/strong> in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Game five: Cooper Pratt singled Brice Turang home in the second, David Hamilton added a run in the fifth, and a William Contreras double plus a Pratt sacrifice fly doubled the lead. The Rays didn&#8217;t score until the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras, 28, was named World Series MVP, the eighth catcher and third Venezuelan to win it. The franchise started life in 1969 as the Seattle Pilots and moved to Milwaukee after one season. Pop the cork, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/baseball\/articles\/c5x2v991l0lvo\">BBC Sport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smallest market, 19th-highest payroll, 57 years of waiting, and they made the Rays look like spectators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-brewers-world-series-1029.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}