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Bob Uecker's final Brewers home run call forges lasting connection to franchise face

The last time we heard "Get up, get outta here gone!"

ByDavid Gasper|
Legendary Brewers radio broadcaster Bob Uecker salutes the crowd after throwing out the first pitch in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Oct. 12, 2018, at Miller Park in Milwaukee.
Legendary Brewers radio broadcaster Bob Uecker salutes the crowd after throwing out the first pitch in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Oct. 12, 2018, at Miller Park in Milwaukee. | Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

"Get up, get up, get outta here gone!" That phrase, that home run call by Bob Uecker, that Milwaukee Brewers fans have heard thousands of times that is in lights above Bernie's chalet in left field, was given for the last time. On Thursday, the Brewers announced that Uecker had passed away at the age of 90.

Uecker was on the call in Game 3 of the NL Wild Card, but he wasn't on for the inning when Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick went back to back to give Milwaukee the lead. So what was the last home run call Uecker gave us?

Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did the sleuthing, and Uecker's final home run call was Jackson Chourio's grand slam against the Cardinals on September 2nd.

Bob Uecker's final home run call was of the future of the Brewers, Jackson Chourio, cracking a grand slam and it is perfect

The youngest player in baseball, Jackson Chourio, debuting at 20 years old, already on his way to superstardom, was the player that 90 year old Bob Uecker gave his final home run call to. Uecker was our connection to stars of the past like Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn, and Mickey Mantle and he is also the connection to a star of the future like Jackson Chourio.

All of those players stretching across all that baseball history have one incredible connection, Bob Uecker. Uecker called one of the last home runs of Hank Aaron, and he called some of the first of Jackson Chourio's.

And even at 90 years old, battling lung cancer, you couldn't tell by Uecker's call. He sounded as strong and as great as ever broadcasting that home run. The home run was grand, a grand slam, and it coming against the Cardinals, the team Uecker won a World Series with in 1964. Just perfect poetry.

As Chourio's career goes forward, as the careers go forward for all of these young Brewers players, having these calls from Uecker of their home runs, of their best moments will be treasured forever.

Uecker represented our connection to the Brewers past and our connection to history. Frankly, he was Brewers history, he was the voice of it all. Jackson Chourio is the Brewers future, and thankfully, we had the 2024 season where the past and the future overlapped to give us these memories and these calls to always look back on fondly.

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