The 2026 MLB season was one Milwaukee Brewers fans had waited nearly six decades to experience.
After winning a league-best 103 games in the regular season, the Brewers finished the job in October, capturing the first World Series championship in franchise history.
A moment the players, fans, city and broadcast booth will never forget.
Brewers play-by-play announcer Jeff Levering has been with the team for 12 years and was on the call for Milwaukee’s championship moment.
“To be able to narrate the first ever championship in franchise history is a little crazy, it’s very surreal to be honest with you,” Levering said. “I never in my wildest dreams thought that something like this would happen in this organization. Not that I didn’t believe in the organization…but because of how good the rest of the league is. I just never knew they would have this chance.”
But before Levering became the voice of a World Series champion, he was building his career right here in the Ozarks.
From 2010-2012, Levering served as the radio voice of the Springfield Cardinals. He called the Cardinals’ first Texas League Championship Series win in 2012.
Levering did games solo and was able to learn about himself as a broadcaster calling games at Hammons Field night in and night out.
“I spend eight years in the minor leagues honing my craft and figuring out what my voice was like, how I liked to call a game, how I liked to prepare for a game,” Levering said. “To have all of those moments build up, you know how to anticipate, you know how to figure out those moments as you’re about ready to say what you want to say.”
From 2015 to 2025, Levering shared the broadcast booth with one of baseball’s most iconic voices: Bob Uecker.
Uecker was the voice of Brewers baseball for 54 years before passing away in January 2025.
For Levering, calling the franchise’s first championship meant carrying on the legacy of the man who had been synonymous with the organization for more than five decades.
“He was an integral part of Brewers baseball, he was the voice of this organization since 1971. When you think of Brewers baseball, you think of Euck,” Levering said. “Having to narrate what should be Bob’s moment in the stars…it was a huge responsibility. Euck was with us, everybody felt him.”
When the final out was recorded in Game 5 of the World Series, Levering delivered a call that will live in Brewers history.
“The wait is over, the Brewers have won the World Series!”
An unscripted moment, 57 years in the making.
“Every Brewers fan that there’s ever been had never tasted what this tastes like,” Levering said. “More than anything, I wanted them to savor it.”
For Brewers fans, it’s a moment they’ll savor for five more decades — and beyond.