Christian Yelich says the Milwaukee Brewers’ path to a World Series title wasn’t built on reinvention. It was built on staying exactly who they were.
At a World Series celebration event at a Raising Cane’s in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Yelich told reporters the Brewers’ biggest edge in their championship run was simple: they never tried to become something else once October arrived.
“I think we just knew that we didn’t have to do anything different than what we’ve done all year,” Yelich told Newsweek and the group of reporters. “And if we just did the same things and played the same way that we’d played for six months, we’d be fine. And we hadn’t really gone on one of those extended win streaks yet that season, it was kind of just steady winning.
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“I think someone said we didn’t win really more than five games in a row at any point during the regular season. So with this team, you always kind of knew that we had the potential to go on a little bit of a heater and just start racking up the wins.
That might actually be in October this year because we haven’t done it yet. You start building the momentum with some of those close wins, and you get the walk-off win, and everybody starts feeling good.”
That steady approach carried Milwaukee through a postseason that ended with the franchise’s first World Series championship. The Brewers won 103 games in the regular season, the most in MLB, then handled the San Diego Padres in the NLDS, 3-1, swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS, 4-0, and beat the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series, 4-1.
Yelich has been with the Brewers since 2018, when he won the NL MVP, and he kept the celebration rolling on Tuesday by working a shift at Raising Cane’s. After the parade on Friday and his appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” he was serving chicken finger meals to customers and greeting the 400 fans who showed up to celebrate with him and the team.
“First we had the parade, then SNL, and now I’m here at Cane’s - it’s awesome!” Yelich said.
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