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Brewers, who began as the Seattle Pilots, reached the World Series after a franchise-record 103-win season.
The Milwaukee Brewers began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and moved to Milwaukee in 1970. The franchise's current run to the World Series reflects that history of relocation and an effort to reach the championship round.
The 2026 club finished the regular season with 103 wins, the most in Major League Baseball and a franchise record. In the postseason, Milwaukee defeated the San Diego Padres and then swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
The Brewers have been in this position before. They lost the 1982 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals. The reporting does not detail the full postseason record of that 1982 run.
Before Game 1, the Brewers also paid tribute to Bob Uecker, with his jackets displayed in the World Series broadcast booth.
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From Seattle in 1969 to a Record Season and World Series Berth
Read chronologically, the franchise's story starts with the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and continues with the move to Milwaukee in 1970. Decades later, the club finished 2026 with 103 wins, a franchise record, and advanced to a World Series it had reached once before, in 1982.
Brewers Return to the World Series Stage Once Lost in 1982
The current run places Milwaukee back in the championship round against the same kind of stage where it fell to St. Louis in 1982. Supporters of the club's history may point to the Uecker tribute in the Game 1 booth as a sign of the franchise connecting its past with this postseason.