{"id":829580,"date":"2026-10-15T02:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/829580\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T02:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:12:31","slug":"beyond-the-fanta-milwaukee-shortstop-cooper-pratts-faith-and-journey-to-the-big-leagues-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/829580\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Fanta: Milwaukee shortstop Cooper Pratt\u2019s faith and journey to the big leagues \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Celebrating his team\u2019s victory with a bottle of orange soda recently gave Milwaukee Brewers rookie shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/cooper-pratt-806198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/cooper-pratt-806198\">Cooper Pratt<\/a> an unexpected opportunity to talk about his Latter-day Saint faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pratt doesn\u2019t drink alcohol. Nonalcoholic drinks, such as sparkling cider, are usually available for him at team celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But after the Brewers defeated the San Diego Padres, 3-1, to win the National League Division Series on Oct. 7, the sparkling cider had been forgotten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/members\/2026\/10\/14\/fanta-milwaukee-brewers-shortstop-cooper-pratt-faith-journey-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/members\/2026\/10\/14\/fanta-milwaukee-brewers-shortstop-cooper-pratt-faith-journey-mlb\/\">To read the full story, visit TheChurchNews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrating his team\u2019s victory with a bottle of orange soda recently gave Milwaukee Brewers rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,100695,6863,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-829580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-church-of-jesus-christ","tag-faith","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117442507095024508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}