The Milwaukee Brewers finally got over the hump by defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 to win their first World Series in franchise history. It was a dominant year from start to finish for the Brewers, who finished with the best record in baseball and swept the back-to-back defending World Series champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the NLCS.
Two weeks after winning the World Series, Brewers manager Pat Murphy made history by winning the NL Manager of the Year for the third year in a row, the first time a player has been named Manager of the Year three consecutive times. Only three other major league managers, Bobby Cox (2004-05), Kevin Cash (2020-21) and Stephen Vogt (2024-25), have even won the award twice in a row.
Murphy’s celebrations were interrupted for hip replacement surgery, but even that couldn’t deter him completely, as he accepted the award from his hospital bed via video call with MLB Network.
After being asked if he was calling from the hospital because he was kicked in the butt following the phone call he received from his hero, Bruce Springsteen, who called him after the World Series victory, Murphy admitted that he went under the knife to have his hip replaced.
“I’ll tell you it was pretty special, but no, I had the hip replaced,” Murphy responded. “Very grateful.”
Pat Murphy accepted his third consecutive Manager of the Year award from a hospital bed after undergoing hip replacement surgery https://t.co/AdNFOcsDTR
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Murphy, who led the Brewers to a franchise-record 103 wins, received 20 of the BBWAA’s 30 first-place votes, beating out Don Mattingly of the Philadelphia Phillies and Walt Weiss of the Atlanta Braves. Weiss finished second, with seven first-place votes, while Mattingly got a first-place nod. Murphy became the first manager in Brewers history to win this award in 2024.
Since then, he has received 74 of the 90 votes for first manager of the year in the Netherlands.
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