2025 Milwaukee Brewers

2025 Milwaukee Brewers / Franchise: Milwaukee Brewers / BR Team Page[edit]

Record: 97-65, Finished 1st in NL Central Division (2025 NL)

Coaches: Julio Borbon, Nestor Corredor, Connor Dawson, Daniel de Mondesert, Matt Erickson, Charlie Greene, Jim Henderson, Chris Hook, Jason Lane, Al LeBoeuf, Eric Theisen and Rickie Weeks

Ballpark: American Family Park

History, Comments, Contributions[edit]

The 2025 Milwaukee Brewers seemed to have forgotten to bring their pitchers north from Arizona when the season started, as they set all sorts of negative records through their first four games. The problems began in earnest after a relatively unremarkable 4-2 loss to the New York Yankees on Opening Day, March 27th, although Freddy Peralta surrendering a homer to Austin Wells, the Yankees' lead-off hitter, in the 1st inning should have been seen as a sign of things to come. In their next game on March 29th, the Yankees went deep on each of off-season acquisition Nestor Cortes first three pitches for a first in major league history, and ended up with a team record 9 homers, one shy of the all-time major league mark, on the day in a 20-9 beatdown. More fireworks followed in a 12-3 loss the next day, and things did not improve when they played their home opener against the Kansas City Royals on March 31st, with the final score an 11-0 loss. Over a three-game stretch, the Brewers' pitchers had surrendered 43 runs on 41 hits in 25 innings, with 17 walks and 15 homers allowed. But the pitching finally showed up in Game 5, as five pitchers combined to shut out the Royals, 5-0, on April 1st, and in a four-game stretch, they allowed just 4 runs - only one of which was earned - as the Brewers evened their record at 4-4. That included Cortes picking up his first win as a Brewer after blanking the Cincinnati Reds on one hit over six innings on April 3rd. One could forgive the Brewers' fans from suffering a bad case of whiplash.

One of the early characteristics of this Brewers team was that it was not afraid to run wild. On April 20th, the Brewers set a new franchise record by stealing 9 bases in a 14-1 win over The Athletics, including six just in the 1st inning. Brice Turang led off the inning with a single, then after one out stole second base. Christian Yelich drew a walk and the two pulled off a double steal, a feat repeated by William Contreras and Rhys Hoskins a few batters later, before Sal Frelick ended the splurge with a steal of second base. No team had done that since the start of the divisional era in 1969. All that running led to four runs, and Turang, Frelick and rookie Caleb Durbin all stole another base before the end of the 4th inning to set a new team record (the previous mark was 8, accomplished in 1992). The Brewers were leading the majors with 33 steals at that point, but had only one and two more than their two closest pursuers, and the game was indicative of how they had been compiling all those thefts, as seven different players already had two or more steals, with Turang and Frelick the team leaders. For all that, the team was not off to a great start, with a record of 25-28 on May 24th, 6 1/2 games in back of the Chicago Cubs.

The big story for the Brewers starting in June was rookie pitcher Jacob Misiorowski, who made his major league debut on June 12th preceded by a lot of hype about his tremendous stuff, including a fastball that regularly hit 100+ mph in the minors. He did not disappoint, pitching five hitless and scoreless innings in a 6-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. He won his next two starts in dominating fashion also, and that was enough to get hiim named the National League Rookie of the Month for June. After a one-game blip when he was hit hard in his first start of July, he put on another dominating performance when matched up against all-time great Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 8th, striking out 12 batters in six innings. On July 11th, after just five major league games, he was named to the NL roster for the All-Star Game, easily beating the previous record set by Paul Skenes the previous season. Meanwhile, the Brewers put together a ten-game winning streak around the All-Star break; they moved to within one game back of the Cubs after their fifth straight win on July 11, but it took them until win number 10, on July 20th, to move into a first-place tie, as the Cubs had also been on a winning streak in the interim. It was their first time being in first place since April 11th, and in the interim they had fallen as low as fourth, and had trailed the Cubbies by as many as 6 1/2 games on June 17th. Their 11th straight win, 6-0 over the Seattle Mariners on July 21st, gave them sole possession of first place for the first time. They were the first team in the NL to reach 60 wins, and with a 60-40 record, they were tops in the majors, a half-game better than the Detroit Tigers and one better than the Toronto Blue Jays.

On August 3rd, the Brewers completed a thre-game sweep of the Washington Nationals in the Nation's Capital with a 14-3 win. Over the three-game series, they put up some historic numbers, collecting a franchise-record 56 hits over the three games, while their 38 runs were the fourth-most ever. In the opener, a 16-9 win, they had set a season high with 25 hits, and had gone on from there. They followed that with consecutive three-game sweeps, against the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets, which gave them nine straight wins since the start of the month, and 12 in their last 13 games. The last win over the Mets, by a score of 7-6, on August 10th, involved the erasure of a five-run deficit topped by a walk-off homer by rookie Isaac Collins, and the feeling that this was a special season in the Cream City could not be escaped. To make the feeling even more epochal, the game was preceded by massive rains the night before that flooded the streets around American Family Park, but the game still went ahead. The flooding did not deter the crowd - some 33,000 of the 42,000 fans who bought tickets made it to the game - and it was the seventh consecutive sellout at the ballpark, something unseen since 2008. By winning the first two games of theirs series against the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 11-12 they made it eleven straight wins for the second time this season. The first of the two wins put them at 30 games above .500 at 74-44, while the second made them just the second team in the past 71 years to have two streaks of 11 or more wins in the same season, after the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays. They made it 12 wins in a row by completing a sweep of the Bucs the next day. It looked to everyone like the streak would end of August 15th, when on Misiorowski's return from the injured list, the Brew Crew fell to a quick 8-1 deficit against the Cincinnati Reds, only to mount a tremendous comeback, scoring 7 runs in the 3rd and 4th innings to tie the score, and then secure a 10-8 win with a couple of runs in the middle innings. Yelich was the hero of that game, with 4 hits and 5 RBIs. The 13 wins matched the 1987 edition of the team, that had famously started the season with 13 straight wins as well, for the longest winning streak in franchise history. Record-breaking win #14 was another epic one, as the Brewers trailed the Reds, 2-1, entering the 9th inning, then scored once that inning, one more time in the 10th, and three times in the 11th on a homer by back-up infielder Andruw Monasterio to end up 6-5 winners. The next day's game, on August 17th, went into extra innings as well, but this time the Reds prevailed, 3-2, to snap the streak and deliver Milwaukee its first loss of the month.

Given their hot start that month, August turned out to be the Brewers' best month, as they went 21-9 and two of their players won monthly honors - Freddy Peralta as the NL Pitcher of the Month and Brice Turang as the Player of the Month. That followed on the back of Misiorowski and Collins being the Rookie of the Month in June and July respectively. At the end of games on August 31st, their record stood at 85-53 - best in the majors - and they held a six-and-a-half-game lead on the Cubs. They were not as dominant in early September, as they split their first ten games, but their 10th game on September 12th was an 8-2 win over the Cardinals that made them the first team in the majors to reach 90 wins. The win went to Quinn Priester, whose acquisition early in the season had gone largely under the radar, but it increased two team records he had set previously, as it was the 18th straight games in which he pitched that the Brewers had won, and his 12th consecutive winning decision (the previous record had been ten). On September 13th, they became the first team in the majors to secure a spot in the postseason thanks to a 9-8 win over the Cardinals in 10 innings. On September 21st, they clinched the division title in the NL Central for the third straight year thanks to a loss by the Cubs while they were victims themselves of a loss: their 95 wins were still tops in the majors, and they had the #1 seed in the postseason practically locked up by then (the Philadelphia Phillies were next best with 92 wins, with only six games left to play.

Awards and Honors[edit]

All-Star: Trevor Megill, Jacob Misiorowski and Freddy Peralta
MLB All-Rookie Team: Isaac Collins (OF) and Caleb Durbin (3B)
NL Manager of the Year Award: Pat Murphy

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