The Milwaukee Brewers had already locked up the top overall postseason seed in MLB by Thursday night, so their three-game set with the St. Louis Cardinals carried no playoff implications. Still, the final weekend of the regular season looked and sounded like a team with something to prove, and American Family Field was packed for all of it.
Milwaukee drew sellouts in each of the three games against St. Louis, pushing the season total to 25. That number matters because the Brewers had 24 sellouts at American Family Field in 2025, so this late surge pushed them past last year’s mark.
Sunday’s finale stood out even more. In Game 162, with nothing on the line, 43,556 fans turned out for the largest crowd of the Brewers’ 2026 season. Jacob Misiorowski was making his final start of the regular season, and the full house helped turn an otherwise meaningless game into another reminder of the level of support behind this team.
The attendance surge came at the same time the Brewers finished the regular season on a roll. Pat Murphy’s club matched its season-high with a five-game winning streak, capped by the sweep of the Cardinals, and Murphy pointed directly to the crowd when asked about the team’s edge over the weekend.
Brewers Manager Pat Murphy says a big reason for the team finishing with a sweep of the Cardinals was because of the sellout crowds all weekend👇
“If 25,000 fans showed up all weekend, they wouldn’t have played the way they did.” pic.twitter.com/quNkffefdQ
- Hunter Baumgardt (@hunterbonair) September 27, 2026
"It was motivating to them, and they felt that responsibility...to play their brand of ball," said Murphy after Sunday's game as seen in the video above captured by Hunter Baumgardt of Fox Sports Radio WI.
That was a sharp contrast to a year ago, when the Brewers went 13-13 in September and entered the postseason without much momentum. They still finished with the best record in baseball and beat the Chicago Cubs in a thrilling NLDS matchup, but this year’s team is heading into October with a much different finish.
Brewers fans didn’t just fill the park for the final series, either. Their 25 sellouts also helped the club finish more than 100,000 above last season’s attendance total, another sign of how strongly Milwaukee showed up all year long.
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