The Brewers' good-luck charm this postseason has been...an announcer?

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Josh Maurer had no way of knowing what would be ahead of him, but first he just needed to understand what the text message from fellow Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Jeff Levering was even saying.

"You have the fifth," Levering texted Maurer the morning of Game 1 of the National League Division Series.

Maurer looked at it for a minute. "The fifth inning?" he replied.

And with that, Maurer was thrust into the radio play-by-play seat for some of the most memorable moments of the greatest October run the Brewers franchise has ever seen.

In Game 4 of the NLDS, Maurer called the go-ahead and eventual game-winning run. In Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, the same thing happened. In Game 2, William Contreras hit a game-tying homer. In Game 4, the Brewers clawed back to tie it again with two more runs.

And then Game 3 of the World Series happened. As the Brewers offense went berserk with eight two-out runs that will live on for years, it was Maurer on the call.

In the immediate aftermath of the call, Maurer was still taken aback.

"The word that keeps coming to my mind is fortunate," he said. "I'm just so fortunate. I shouldn't even be in this position to be broadcasting, and because Lane [Grindle] and Jeff have been so gracious I am. To be able to narrate that inning is the honor of my career."

It all happened fast. From Brice Turang's two-run single to kick off the scoring until Jackson Chourio's double to cap it was 10 minutes.

"Tonight's was actually easy," he said. "I thought it was easier because what was happening was just all these hits. There wasn't anything complicated about it. Just constant chaos. When things are drawn out it makes it harder, but when it's like that you don't have time to get creative. You just keep going."

This is the first MLB postseason that Maurer has ever called. He's been with the club since 2022, but his first two years that Milwaukee made the postseason the call was split by Levering, Grindle and Bob Uecker. Last year, Levering and Grindle handled the games.

This year, they wanted Maurer to join, making for a full-circle moment. The last time Maurer called a playoff game was 2014 in the minor leagues with Levering. Before Game 1 of the World Series, the two took a moment to acknowledge how far they've come.

In this case, that meant calling one of the biggest innings in Brewers history.

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"It really hit me right away," Maurer said. "From the minute Turang got that hit and [Garrett] Mitchell got another one and then right after that it was [Cooper] Pratt, it was three pitches. They scored five runs on three pitches. That was when I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can't believe how lucky I am.' That's really what I was thinking: 'I can't believe this is happening while I'm calling play-by-play.