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Heartbreaking final call from Bob Uecker as Brewers announcer reemerges after legend’s death at 90

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Fans rewatch the final call of Milwaukee Brewers announcer Bob Uecker, who died at 90

As fans pay tribute to legendary baseball announcer Bob Uecker, the audio of his final call has gone viral on social media.

Uecker, a former baseball player and former broadcaster, died Thursday at the age of 90.

Uecker, a World Series championship-winning catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals, was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and played one season for the Milwaukee Braves before playing in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Atlanta.

He then spent more than five decades calling baseball games – both nationally for ABC and NBC and locally for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Sure enough, Uecker was in the final game of the Brewers’ 2024 season: Game 3 of the National League Wild Card Series against the New York Mets.

In that game, the Brewers took a 2-0 lead in the seventh inning, which they held until a bomb from Mets first baseman Pete Alonso gave New York the lead.

Fans rewatch the final call of Milwaukee Brewers announcer Bob Uecker, who died at 90

The Brewers lost their final game of the NL Wild Card when Pete Alonso hit a home run for the Mets

The Brewers lost their final game of the NL Wild Card when Pete Alonso hit a home run for the Mets

A Brewers fan leaves flowers at a statue of Uecker outside American Family Field

A Brewers fan leaves flowers at a statue of Uecker outside American Family Field

The Mets held on to win the game – and the final came when the Brewers’ Brice Turang grounded into a double play.

Uecker’s call for the final out read as follows: “4-2 New York, the pitch… a double play ball hit to Lindor and the pitch will end with a double play and the New York Mets, after coming from behind with a big four-run rally in the ninth inning, overcoming that three-run deficit. Wow.

‘Turang hit a rocket, hopped short by Lindor he went to the bag and then doubled the throw to first Brice. And this one is over and what seemed like a huge come-from-behind victory in a nothing-nothing match throughout the evening – it was. And just like that, their big rally with four to wipe out the lead… that’s a tough call.”

After New York filed out of the dugout, there was silence from the Milwaukee booth before Uecker spoke into the microphone again.

“Well, New York…that’s where they did it. And the crew is going to end it here tonight… I’m telling you, something was up,” Uecker said over the air of radio station WTMJ.

Uecker’s career ventured beyond baseball into the world of acting and comedy after opening for Don Rickles in 1969.

That led to multiple appearances on “The Tonight Show” during the time Johnny Carson was the host – where Carson called him “Mr. Baseball’.

Uecker also starred in an ABC sitcom, ‘Mr. Belvedere,” and starred as play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Indians in the beloved baseball film series “Major League.”

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