Local radio call of Game 2's season-saving Brewers inning is just incredible

With hometown announcers shunted aside in favor of national voices for the MLB playoffs, the easiest route towards electricity is typically cutting their mics and letting the crowd's exaltations breathe. When a budding Milwaukee Brewers star launches an opposite-field laser or escapes an inning with a cathartic strikeout, who really cares what the voice of the Cubs has to say? It's the voice of the people that matters.

Luckily, though, if you need a commentator with the requisite chops, there's always local radio. While Milwaukee's television voices are forced to abandon ship when the regular season grind ends, their radio team remains active and attentive, and Jeff Levering brought the entire region a gold-plated set of eighth inning calls during Game 2.

When Jackson Chourio stepped to the plate to lead off the frame against change-of-pace artist Phil Maton, it seemed possible he'd make something happen. But an oppo shot, something he rarely does, for the second time in the game? That felt unlikely.

Ditto Garrett Mitchell's pinch-hit ambush. But while both moments may have taken Levering by surprise as well, he made sure to channel that shock into calls that adequately captured the sound of 45,000 jaws hitting pavement.

Milwaukee Brewers radio call from Jackson Chourio, Garrett Mitchell Game 2 Wild Card home runs were incredible

"And life is back in Milwaukee," indeed.

Extra credit for knowing exactly where Mitchell's home run had bounced. He read the carom perfectly. No "double?" questioning here. Gone. Relentless.

The only shame here is that we weren't in the midst of a Bob Uecker inning, as nobody deserves an extended playoff run more than the 90-year-old living pillar of the franchise's ability to take lumps with grace while standing tall.

Still, Levering delivered. It's not his fault that the euphoric din of the crowd overshadowed his well-crafted calls. There's no way to avoid that.

Game 3, for all the marbles, begins Thursday evening at 6:08 local time. It's the only game in town, or any other town. The rest of MLB is on pause. All eyes are on the people of Milwaukee, and the people who woke them up last night. So pour yourself a cold one (or six) and get loud. Make yourself heard. Because we're doing this all again.