Randy Wolf came to the Brewers Alumni Legends game and ended up stealing the show in the strangest way possible.
Team Wisco won the night behind Wolf, the former Brewers left-hander who delivered the game’s biggest swing by launching a two-run homer. That’s not exactly the script most people would have drawn up for a pitcher who once won a playoff game for Milwaukee in 2011, but Wolf made it work anyway.
His reaction afterward was about as fitting as the moment itself.
“Honestly, I kind of blacked out,” he said after the game.
The home run celebration turned into its own highlight. Wolf and the rest of Team Wisco brought back Prince Fielder’s 2009 “Bowling ball” celebration, sending the crowd into a frenzy.
The blast was Wolf’s fifth career home run and his first in a Brewers uniform. It also wasn’t his first homer at American Family Field. Back in 2001, he went deep there as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Wolf wasn’t done after the swing, either. He also took the mound and allowed no runs, turning in what can only be described as a full-on “Brewers Alumni Legends game Shohei Ohtani” performance.
That all added up to the inaugural Brewers Alumni legends Game MVP award, which Wolf received after the game. He left American Family Field with the title, a gold medal and a three-tier trophy nearly as tall as he is.
As for how he planned to get the hardware home, Wolf said he wasn’t heading straight home at all. He’s off to Rome, and he joked that he plans to carry the trophy around Europe, “like it’s the Stanley Cup.”
There was just one thing he hadn’t fully processed yet: the home run ball.
“I didn’t even think about that,” he said.
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