How The Brewers Stumped the Rays, and all of Baseball, for first ever Championship

Nobody had answers for the Milwaukee Brewers this year. Not the Padres, definitely not the Dodgers, and not the Rays, who, outside of a season-saving comeback scraped together against the very back of the Brewers bullpen, were overmatched. It all started with the Brewers’ tough-love manager Pat Murphy, who earlier this season did something that Yankees fans have been begging Aaron Boone to do for years — he benched a star player. Murphy’s 44 years in coaching, including stops at Maryville College, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, Notre Dame, and Arizona State have molded him into a no-nonsense, businesslike leader. In this instance, he took exception to how his catcher William Contreras hustled, or rather didn’t hustle, down the line. In the fifth inning of a tie ballgame against the Phillies, Contreras hit a ground ball to the left side of the infield and started jogging to first base.

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