Pat Murphy kept coming back to the same idea after Milwaukee’s title run: the Brewers didn’t just want to win, they wanted to be different.
That difference carried them to the top. Milwaukee beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 of the 2026 World Series to take the series 4-1 and deliver the first championship in franchise history. For a club that has spent much of the past decade chasing a title, it was the finish they had been trying to write all along.
They were close in 2025, only to see the Los Angeles Dodgers sweep them out of the NLCS. This time, the Brewers arrived with a mindset that set the tone from the start and never let go.
“You got the right mix that decided they wanted to be uncommon… It’s gotta be about team. You gotta care about your teammates.
You really do. You don’t have to like them.
You have to understand what it takes to play winning baseball,” remarked the Brewers manager.
“Stay relentless. Get off the floor when things don’t go well.
They decided they wanted to do that. They made a pact, ‘Let’s be the last man standing.’”
That attitude showed up in the way Milwaukee played. Ego never took over, and the group stayed locked into the shared job: stretching rallies, passing leads to the next trusted reliever, and making the biggest moments look like part of the plan.
The Brewers paired that discipline with an analytics-driven style and sharp fundamentals, and it made them MLB’s top team through the regular season and the postseason.
Repeating it won’t be easy. But if Murphy’s culture holds and the Brewers keep valuing the team over the individual, another deep run in 2027 is there for the taking.
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