Remarkable attendance statistic reaffirms that Brewers fans are the best in baseball

The Milwaukee Brewers weren't playing for anything in Sunday afternoon's season finale against the St. Louis Cardinals. In fact, after clinching the top overall postseason seed in MLB on Thursday night, the Brewers really had nothing to play for in any of their three games against the Cardinals this weekend. Though Pat Murphy's team certainly wanted to stay sharp and keep the momentum from their excellent month of September going, the outcomes of each of the last three games did not have an impact on Milwaukee's playoff seed one way or another.

However, despite the "meaninglessness" of their final series of the 2026 season, the Brewers felt the support of their incredible fanbase during their weekend series against the Redbirds. In fact, Brewers fans sold out American Family Field for each of the three games against the Cardinals this weekend, which brought the season-long total up to 25 sellouts. That's significant, because the 2025 season saw 24 sellouts at American Family Field, so this year's late-September push led Brewers fans to surpass last year's total.

The most remarkable attendance number from the weekend, however, was the fact that Sunday's series finale was the largest crowd of the season. In Game 162, with nothing on the line, more Brewers fans -- 43,556 -- showed up to American Family Field than any other game during the 2026 season, to show their support for the record-breaking 2026 squad. It certainly helped that Cy Young favorite Jacob Misiorowski was making his final start of the regular season, but regardless, the Brewers' fanbase once again proved why they are the best in baseball over the weekend, and it certainly did not go unnoticed.

Pat Murphy credits Brewers' fanbase for keeping momentum high as postseason approaches

A season ago, the Brewers went 13-13 in September and somewhat coasted into the postseason. Yes, they still finished the season with the best record in baseball and won a thrilling NLDS matchup against the Chicago Cubs, but they did so despite finishing the season without a great deal of momentum. This year, however, was a different story.

The Brewers finished the regular season by matching a season-high five-game winning streak, which was capped by their three-game sweep of the Cardinals over the weekend. Murphy's squad played with an admirable intensity even after clinching all they could for the postseason, and for that, the Brewers' manager gave some credit to Milwaukee's incredible fanbase.

"It was motivating to them, and they felt that responsibility...to play their brand of ball," said Murphy after Sunday's game as seen in the video above captured by Hunter Baumgardt of Fox Sports Radio WI. The Brewers wouldn't have shown up with the same energy and intensity in their final series of the season if not for the packed house at American Family Field, and who knows what the outcomes of the games therefore would have been? A loss or two to their division rivals would have meant less momentum than what the Brew Crew is carrying into October.

It wasn't just the final series of the year, however, that Brewers fans flooded American Family Field. The aforementioned 25 sellouts is an impressive feat in its own right, but Brewers fans also broke last year's attendance number by more than 100,000. The Brewers continue to post impressive attendance numbers year in and year out, and Murphy as well as his team take notice, offering further evidence that the best team in baseball is supported by the best fanbase in baseball.

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