{"id":950322,"date":"2026-10-29T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950322\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:34:16","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-william-contreras-named-world-series-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950322\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 William Contreras named World Series MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 William Contreras<\/a> became the eighth catcher voted the World Series MVP after lifting the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> to their first World Series championship.<\/p>\n

The heart and soul of the small-market Brewers, Contreras batted .381 while guiding Milwaukee\u2019s pitching staff and capitalizing on the first Series with the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system by winning 10 of 13 appeals. He had an RBI double during Milwaukee\u2019s clinching 4-1 victory in Game 5 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe posts every day,\u201d reliever Aaron Ashby<\/a> said. \u201dThis team\u2019s not what it is without this guy. He\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He joins Gene Tenace (1972), Johnny Bench (1976), Steve Yeager (co-winner in 1981), Darrell Porter (1982), Rick Dempsey (1983), Pat Borders (1992) and Salvador Perez<\/a> (2015) as catchers to win the award.<\/p>\n

At 28 a three-time All-Star, Contreras batted .270 with 18 homers and a career-best 94 RBIs as the Brewers won their fourth straight NL Central title.<\/p>\n

He hit .444 with a pair of solo homers in the Division Series against San Diego, hitting a tiebreaking, seventh-inning drive in Game 1 and another homer in Game 3. He batted .357 with one homer and three RBIs in the Championship Series sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contreras was on Venezuela\u2019s team that won its first World Baseball Classic, though he was 0 for 13 with no RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 William Contreras became the eighth catcher voted the World Series MVP after lifting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,100495,462,82,325081],"class_list":["post-950322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-milwaukee-brewers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-232","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-william-contreras-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-872847"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}