“Wish He Could Have Been Here”: Brewers Captain Remembers Legendary Broadcaster After World Series Win

A 103-win season and an 11-2 October usually leave little room for anything beyond the celebration. Yet after the Milwaukee Brewers closed out the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5, captain Christian Yelich spent his first moments as champion thinking about Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Uecker, a bond that came through in his postgame remarks to ESPN. “He’s smiling, man. He’s smiling. I really wish he could have been here to see this. It would have meant everything to him,” Yelich said on ESPN’s X account after the Game 5 clincher on Oct. 28.