#brewers

Milwaukee beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 at Tropicana Field on Wednesday night to win the first World Series title in franchise history, AP reports: Jacob Misiorowski threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings, rookie Cooper Pratt had two hits and two RBIs, and catcher William Contreras was named Series MVP. The Brewers' only previous World Series, in 1982, ended in a Game 7 loss.

The r/baseball announcement drew about 21,100 upvotes in a 2.8-million-member community; a clip of the final moments in r/sports drew about 23,000 in a 21.8-million-member one. The top r/baseball reply lists what commenters see as the season's story: a first 100-win season, an 11-2 playoff record, and a sweep of the Dodgers on the way. Many fans of other teams call it well deserved and point to the young core. In r/sports, the top replies joke that Wisconsin will run out of beer, and one remembers the late broadcaster Bob Uecker.

Before Game 3 of the World Series, Brewers closer Trevor Megill complained that Tropicana Field's off-white roof is the same color as the baseball, making fly balls hard to track; EssentiallySports reports the quote, relayed by Talkin' Baseball, insulted whoever chose the color in profane terms. The site notes that under MLB's rules a ball that hits the Trop's roof or support cables over fair territory stays in play, and that a ball off a cable at Milwaukee's own retractable-roof park had gone the Brewers' way in the NLDS.

The thread, an image of the quote, drew about 13,000 upvotes in a 2.8-million-member community. The top replies ask for a tier list of roofs, with Toronto's SkyDome a popular pick; a Twins fan recalls loving the Metrodome until Target Field opened; others say the Trop was just renovated and could have been painted a different color. One commenter notes that tennis balls turned yellow partly because white ones were hard to see on black-and-white TV.

Posted seconds after the Dodgers thread, this image post marks the Milwaukee Brewers clinching the National League pennant with a four-game NLCS sweep of the two-time defending champion Dodgers. It drew about 16,800 upvotes and 1,400 comments in a 2.8-million-member community.

Where the Dodgers thread is mostly about the loser, this one belongs to Milwaukee fans. The top reply describes a kind of euphoria the writer had never felt, after the Brewers came from behind in most of the games. Others call it a "team of destiny" and look ahead to the American League winner. One long, widely upvoted reply recalls weekly Brewers games with an elderly Wisconsin neighbor.

A text-only post announcing that the Los Angeles Dodgers had been eliminated from World Series contention went up minutes after Milwaukee finished a four-game sweep in the National League Championship Series. It became the biggest thread of our sweep relative to community size: about 32,900 upvotes and 2,400 comments in a 2.8-million-member subreddit.

The replies are mostly a party. The top comments point out that the Dodgers were swept at home, ending their hopes of a third straight title, by the same Brewers team they had swept in last year's NLCS, and that it came two months after the Dodgers traded for Skubal. Others joke that rival fans (one describes a Yankees fan and a Red Sox fan hugging) briefly found common ground. A smaller group of Dodgers fans argue the sweep was a fluke.