Milwaukee Brewers Win First World Series, Celebrate With Downtown Parade and Rally

The Milwaukee Brewers celebrated the first World Series championship in franchise history with a parade and rally through downtown Milwaukee on Friday, drawing tens of thousands of fans, ESPN reported. The title, won over the Tampa Bay Rays, is Wisconsin's first Major League Baseball championship since the Milwaukee Braves won in 1957, NPR reported. At the rally, right fielder Sal Frelick, 26, vowed to drink a beer for each of the 100,000 people present. Hitting coach Daniel Vogelbach, 33, sang "Stacy's Mom" with a Miller Lite in hand, following through on a pledge made earlier, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan. On Thursday night, Frelick had performed the Lambeau Leap when the team brought the Commissioner's Trophy onto the field at the Green Bay Packers game. Milwaukee won a franchise-record 103 regular-season games, spent 149 days atop the standings, won its fourth straight National League Central title by 14 games and swept the Dodgers in four games in the postseason. Passan reported that the owners' position on a salary cap remained unchanged.

Left-leaning NPR leads with fans celebrating and the link to the 1957 Braves. The Guardian's Howard Bryant, in a column, treats the title as a rebuke to team owners who say small-market clubs cannot compete. He cites the 103 wins, a 22-0 win over Seattle, a 20-0 win over Cincinnati, 770 wins since 2018 and the owners' salary-cap push. Right-leaning outlets skip that argument and cover the party. The New York Post spotlights Vogelbach's karaoke, adding his on-field background and the team's offensive ranks: 28th in home runs, second in runs and third in OPS. Fox News leads with Frelick's 100,000-beer vow, the Lambeau Leap and players pushing organizers to put Vogelbach onstage. Both sides agree on the first-ever title and the parade, but only the left connects it to payroll and labor questions. ESPN's coverage largely matches the celebration focus.