The 2026 MLB season was one Milwaukee Brewers fans had waited nearly six decades to experience.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A moment the players, fans, city and broadcast booth will never forget.<\/p>\n
Brewers play-by-play announcer Jeff Levering has been with the team for 12 years and was on the call for Milwaukee\u2019s championship moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to narrate the first ever championship in franchise history is a little crazy, it\u2019s very surreal to be honest with you,\u201d Levering said. \u201cI never in my wildest dreams thought that something like this would happen in this organization. Not that I didn\u2019t believe in the organization\u2026but because of how good the rest of the league is. I just never knew they would have this chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
But before Levering became the voice of a World Series champion, he was building his career right here in the Ozarks.<\/p>\n
From 2010-2012, Levering served as the radio voice of the Springfield Cardinals.\u00a0He called the Cardinals\u2019 first Texas League Championship Series win in 2012.<\/p>\n
Levering did games solo and was able to learn about himself as a broadcaster calling games at Hammons Field night in and night out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d Levering said. \u201cTo have all of those moments build up, you know how to anticipate, you know how to figure out those moments as you\u2019re about ready to say what you want to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
From 2015 to 2025, Levering shared the broadcast booth with one of baseball\u2019s most iconic voices: Bob Uecker.<\/p>\n
Uecker was the voice of Brewers baseball for 54 years before passing away in January 2025.<\/p>\n
For Levering, calling the franchise\u2019s first championship meant carrying on the legacy of the man who had been synonymous with the organization for more than five decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe 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,\u201d Levering said. \u201cHaving to narrate what should be Bob\u2019s moment in the stars\u2026it was a huge responsibility. Euck was with us, everybody felt him.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the final out was recorded in Game 5 of the World Series, Levering delivered a call that will live in Brewers history.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wait is over, the Brewers have won the World Series!\u201d<\/p>\n
An unscripted moment, 57 years in the making.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery Brewers fan that there\u2019s ever been had never tasted what this tastes like,\u201d Levering said. \u201cMore than anything, I wanted them to savor it.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Brewers fans, it\u2019s a moment they\u2019ll savor for five more decades \u2014 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 MLB season was one Milwaukee Brewers fans had waited nearly six decades to experience. After winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-849074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117584289047684084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849074","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=849074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}