The Milwaukee Brewers are closing out the most successful regular season in franchise history right where they started it — at American Family Field. Milwaukee hosts the St. Louis Cardinals for a three-game series running from Friday through Sunday, the club's final regular-season homestand of 2026, with limited tickets remaining that include standing-room-only and obstructed-view options.
The series arrives on the heels of a historic milestone. Milwaukee beat the Philadelphia Phillies on the road to clinch its 100th win of the season, becoming the first team in franchise history to reach the century mark, according to FOX6 News Milwaukee. That 100th victory, combined with a Los Angeles Dodgers loss on Sept. 24, locked up the National League's No. 1 overall seed and home-field advantage throughout the 2026 postseason, per MLB.com. Milwaukee holds the tiebreaker over Los Angeles and has now guaranteed at least a share of the league's best overall record for a second consecutive year.
What makes the achievement especially unusual is how Milwaukee got there. The Brewers became the first team in MLB history to post a 100-win season without ever stringing together a winning streak longer than five games, according to theScore. Milwaukee recorded three separate five-game winning streaks during the year but also endured a six-game losing streak earlier in the season, making the milestone a testament to grinding consistency rather than hot stretches.
A Record-Breaking Climb
Before reaching 100 wins, Milwaukee had already rewritten its own record book. The club set a new franchise single-season win total on Sept. 20 with a 3-0 shutout sweep of the Baltimore Orioles for win No. 98, surpassing the previous franchise mark of 97 wins set in 2025, according to Wikipedia. The franchise, which originated in 1969 as the Seattle Pilots before relocating to Milwaukee in 1970, has now separated itself from the pack of clubs still chasing a 100-win campaign. Following Milwaukee's milestone, six active franchises remain without a 100-win regular season on record: the Colorado Rockies, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays and Washington Nationals, per theScore.
The win total capped a run that also included clinching Milwaukee's fourth consecutive NL Central division title on Sept. 15 — its sixth division crown in nine seasons and eighth postseason berth in nine years. That clincher came after Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh 5-1 while the second-place Chicago Cubs lost to Atlanta, as reported by FOX6 News Milwaukee.
Pitching Led the Charge
Much of Milwaukee's dominance traces back to its rotation. Starter Jacob Misiorowski became the first pitcher in MLB history to throw 1,000 pitches at 100 mph or faster in a single season, doing so on Sept. 8, according to Wikipedia. He also led all of baseball in ERA at 1.86 and strikeouts with 247 across 169.1 innings this year.
Rookie Logan Henderson provided rotation depth behind him, posting a 0.84 WHIP over 18 starts — the lowest single-season WHIP in MLB history for a rookie pitcher with at least 15 starts, according to Sports Illustrated. Henderson finished his regular season with a 2.47 ERA and 110 strikeouts. Manager Pat Murphy, who took over the club in 2024 and previously served as Milwaukee's bench coach from 2016 to 2023, won NL Manager of the Year in both his first two seasons at the helm, per Baseball-Reference.
Milwaukee enters the finale against St. Louis holding an 8-2 head-to-head record against the Cardinals this season, according to StatMuse. The Brewers previously won three of four games against St. Louis in a July series.
Peanuts Night Opens the Weekend
Friday's series opener features Peanuts Night, with ticket purchasers receiving a Lucy bobblehead. The first 30,000 ticketed fans that night will get a 2027 Brewers magnet schedule and a voucher for two loge-level tickets to a qualifying 2027 home game, per the FOX6 report. Elise Fabyan, a seventh grader from Pewaukee, will throw the ceremonial first pitch Friday.
The Miller Lite Beerpen will operate in the left-field loge bleachers during Friday's game, and fans 21 and older with Beerpen tickets receive a free Brewers cap. A student special is also in effect for Monday-through-Friday home games, offering $12 tickets to college and high school students, according to the same FOX6 account.
Fan Appreciation Night and a Christian Yelich Tribute
Saturday's 6:10 p.m. game doubles as Fan Appreciation Night. Randomly selected ticketed fans can win prizes including a 2026 RAV4, a suite for a 2027 regular-season home game, and game-worn Brewers jerseys. The first 30,000 ticketed fans Saturday receive a City Connect tumbler.
Outfielder Christian Yelich will be honored on the field before Saturday's game as a 2026 Roberto Clemente Award nominee — his second nomination in three years, recognizing his outreach and philanthropic support for U.S. military members and veterans, according to Urban Milwaukee. Cecil Cooper in 1983 remains the only Brewers player ever to win the league-wide award. The UW-Platteville Marching Band will perform the national anthem, and Green Bay Packers linebacker Lukas Van Ness will throw the ceremonial first pitch. A Brewers.TV pregame show hosted by Craig Coshun, Tim Dillard and Vinny Rottino will take place at UW Credit Union Plaza ahead of the game.
Family-Friendly Sunday Closer
The homestand — and Milwaukee's regular season — wraps Sunday with a 2:10 p.m. first pitch. Family Sundays at Helfaer Field runs from 10:10 a.m. to 1:10 p.m., offering free outfield catch sessions, though the schedule may shift because of other events or poor weather. The Glove Playground and Helfaer Field Playground feature interactive, sensory play and photo opportunities, and a mini sausage race will send mini Famous Racing Sausages down the warning track.
Kids 14 and under can run the bases after Sunday's game. A Family Sunday bundle — four tickets, a general parking pass, four junior hot dogs, chips and bottled water — costs $85. Separately, the GovX ticket offer provides half-price tickets in select locations for active-duty military, veterans, first responders, government employees and teachers, applicable to Sunday-through-Thursday home games. Fans can purchase tickets through Brewers.com, by phone at 1-800-933-7890, or at the American Family Field box office.
With home-field advantage locked up and a rotation fronted by Misiorowski and Henderson, Milwaukee's regular-season business is essentially finished. What comes next, according to theScore's framing of the milestone, is the real test: turning a historic 100-win campaign into the deep postseason run the franchise has chased across eight playoff appearances in nine years.
