Cooper Pratt’s 12th-inning blast in Game 4 gave the Brewers a moment for the ages, and Joe Davis made sure the call carried a little extra meaning.
When Pratt sent his go-ahead home run soaring in the World Series clincher Tuesday night into Wednesday morning at Tropicana Field, Davis leaned into a line that Brewers fans know by heart: “Hitting a high drive! Deep left field!”
he said. “Get up, get up, gone!”
The FOX broadcaster said afterward that the choice was deliberate. Davis, who has called the Fall Classic since 2022, said he wanted to honor Bob Uecker, the late Hall of Fame Brewers radio voice, on a moment that already felt like one of the biggest in Milwaukee postseason history.
“I’m a huge broadcast nerd and always have been, ever since I was a kid dreaming of doing this job,” Davis said after coming out of his Game 5 pregame meeting with Brewers manager Pat Murphy. “Ueck is obviously a guy that you grew up listening to and was underrated because he was such a comic genius that his ability to master the craft and be an amazing play-by-play announcer didn’t get enough love. I say that to say I was always studying him and listening to him, and just by osmosis, that stuff is in there.”
Davis also talked about meeting Uecker back when he was still doing Minor League games. At the time, he’d been invited to use a spare broadcast booth at then-Miller Park so he could practice play-by-play and build a tape to show big league front offices.
“It was a chance to get big league tape,” Davis said. “I had my computer, my little sound board I could plug in and get that demo tape to be able to show big league front offices, ‘This is what I sound like at a big league game.’
“I met Ueck at a couple of those, and he right away made me feel like I belonged in a press box. And I’m just this 23-year-old kid who had no idea what I was doing.”
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