Milwaukee Brewers Win the 2026 World Series: A Championship to Remember
At 11:13 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 at Tropicana Field and won the 2026 World Series. It is the first championship in franchise history, and the first baseball title Milwaukee has won since the 1957 Braves. Back in Milwaukee, 31,000 fans packed American Family Field to watch the final out. Browse Brewers tickets to see the upcoming dates the team has listed.
How Game 5 went down
The Brewers went up 1-0 in the second and never trailed. Jacob Misiorowski, the 24-year-old presumptive Cy Young winner, threw 5.2 scoreless innings before a right calf cramp pulled him out with two outs in the sixth. The only Rays run came with two out in the ninth, against Trevor Megill.
Drew Rasmussen started for Tampa Bay on short rest, and Brice Turang doubled off his changeup in the second. After Sal Frelick took a pitch in the chest, Cooper Pratt singled to score Turang and make it 1-0.
Pratt singled in the fifth, hitting in his fifth consecutive plate appearance to tie the rookie record for the Fall Classic, and Garrett Mitchell and David Hamilton followed with singles to make it 2-0. Captain Yelich led off the sixth with a hit by pitch, and Contreras doubled off the left-field warning track to make it 3-0. Turang singled and stole second, and Pratt's sacrifice fly in his sixth straight plate appearance, breaking that record, made it 4-0.
Cooper Pratt owned October as a rookie
Pratt hit 8-for-18 (.444) in the World Series, with three extra-base hits, and became the first player, of any kind, to hit in six straight World Series plate appearances since David Ortiz of the Red Sox in 2013.
Pratt was the Brewers' No. 4 prospect heading into the season and hit just .238 in 120 games at Double-A Biloxi in 2025. Milwaukee handed the 22-year-old an eight-year, $50.75 million contract before his Major League debut, and he has rewarded them with hit after hit.
"This is one of the greatest moments of my life... It doesn't even feel real. This is surreal. It only took four months. It's great," Pratt said on FOX.
Game 4 almost ended it all
Tuesday night, October 27, the Brewers were just three outs away from the championship in the 12th inning of Game 4. Pratt homered in the top of the 12th to take the lead, but the Rays answered in the bottom to win 4-3. On the broadcast, FOX play-by-play voice Joe Davis called the homer "Get up, get up, gone!" the signature call of the late Hall of Fame Brewers radio voice Bob Uecker.
William Contreras wins World Series MVP
William Contreras won the 2026 World Series MVP award. The 28-year-old backstop went 8-for-21 (.381) with a double and four RBIs, was successful on 10 of 13 (77%) ABS challenges behind the plate, and threw out four of nine runners attempting to steal, per MLB.com's MVP article, effectively neutralizing the run game that was a calling card for the Rays.
"I don't know," Contreras said. "It's just magic. I'm behind the plate every day... my pitchers are so nasty, everybody."
What this championship means for Milwaukee
Milwaukee's last baseball champions were the 1957 Braves, and the last Brewers World Series came in 1982, when the Wallbangers lost to the Cardinals in Game 7. The franchise is in its 57th year in Milwaukee, 56 years after the move from Seattle. Before Wednesday night, five current teams had never won the World Series: the Brewers, Mariners, Padres, Rays and Rockies. Now there are four.
The season that did it: a franchise-record and Major League-best 103 wins in the regular season, 114 total wins, and 11-2 in October, per MLB.com's Game 5 recap. The champions were the team from MLB's smallest market, as MLB.com's series wrap puts it, led by a 60-something manager with only interim Major League experience. They beat the Padres, baseball's hottest second-half team, in the NLDS, then swept the two-time defending Dodgers.
Captain Christian Yelich, in Milwaukee since 2018, helped build the culture that has produced eight postseason berths in the past nine years. "I can't tell you how many people have told me, 'I've waited my whole life for this,'" he said. "I think any time you win a World Series, it changes a place a little bit." Milwaukee won this one for Henry Aaron, whose No. 44 hangs, retired, atop American Family Field.
How fans are celebrating
The celebration started on the field at Tropicana Field, where fans in Yelich, Chourio and Misiorowski jerseys stayed on their feet for the final frames. Thousands of Milwaukee fans had turned the dome into a home away from home all week.
There is no official parade announcement on the Brewers news page as of Thursday, October 29. Keep an eye on the official Brewers site for dates and details. If you are planning a trip to champion Milwaukee, tickets at American Family Field are the place to start, with hotels near American Family Field rounding out the night.
Get the group locked in early for next season. Browse Brewers tickets for the upcoming dates the team has listed, and compare every MLB baseball ticket listing while you are at it. Buy with confidence: every order on StubOrder is backed by our 100% Buyer Guarantee.
The numbers behind this: see live Milwaukee Brewers ticket price data, updated hourly and free to cite, or go straight to Milwaukee Brewers tickets and schedule.
