The Milwaukee Brewers are officially headed to the 2025 postseason

Ladies and gentlemen, they've done it again. For the seventh time in the last eight years, the Milwaukee Brewers will participate in the MLB postseason.

Entering the night, there were three different ways that the Brew Crew could officially clinch a spot in the playoffs. Either the team could take matters into their own hands and beat the St. Louis Cardinals in tonight's matchup, or they could rely on the Texas Rangers to beat the New York Mets, or they could root for the Athletics to take down the Cincinnati Reds for the second straight night. Any of those three occurrences would result in the Brewers heading back to the postseason for the third straight season.

Well, just as they have in their seven previous games, the New York Mets lost, falling by a score of 3-2 to the Texas Rangers. Now, though the math seemed to already indicate that the Brewers had clinched a playoff berth as pointed out by JR Radcliffe of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MLB has officially acknowledged the Brewers’ clinching of a spot in the postseason.

With the Mets loss to the Rangers, the Brewers are officially headed back to the postseason

Interestingly enough, the Brewers have an old friend to thank for their early clinch. With the Rangers down 2-1 in the top of the 8th inning in Saturday afternoon's game against the Mets, former Brewers first baseman Rowdy Tellez lined an RBI ground-rule double down the right field line, scoring Wyatt Langford and tying the game at 2-2. The Rangers went on to take a 3-2 lead in the top of the 9th, and the combination of Shawn Armstrong and Phil Maton shut things down in the bottom half of the frame. With a strikeout of Brandon Nimmo to end the game, the Brewers officially clinched a postseason berth.

It's an incredible feat for any team to clinch a spot in the postseason on September 13, but for a team that was constantly underestimated throughout the offseason and the first two months of the regular season to do it is even more unbelievable. The Brewers, whose postseason hopes were seemingly nonexistent in late May, have turned things around in the most unbelievable fashion and become the first team to clinch a spot in the postseason in 2025.

While a small weight has been lifted off the shoulders of Pat Murphy's group of "Average Joes," and the team will certainly celebrate this incredible accomplishment, the work is far from over, and if there's one team that will continue to keep its eye on the prize regardless of what it accomplishes, it's the Milwaukee Brewers.

Murphy constantly preaches a motto of "winning tonight," which is another way of saying don't let future implications distract you from the goal of winning each game. While Murphy and his squad remained locked in, Brewers fans should certainly celebrate what has easily been the longest period of sustained success in franchise history. Building an MLB team that is successful year in and year out is no easy task, but doing so with the limited resources that the Brewers have is downright inconceivable. As such, a great deal of credit goes to Matt Arnold and the Brewers' front office that has curated a group of hungry ballplayers who buy into the team's approach and make the most of every opportunity.

What a day for the Brew Crew. Through all the ups and downs, from torpedo bats to pocket pancakes, from closed-door team meetings to 14-game winning streaks, the Brewers have remained resilient. And as a reward, they will once again be playing in October.