Joe Davis honors late Brewers radio icon Bob Uecker during World Series Game 4 call

By Vancouver Television Sports Desk

ST. PETERSBURG—Milwaukee’s Cooper Pratt delivered a go-ahead home run in the 12th inning of Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night (and Wednesday morning), and the moment quickly became a centerpiece of the Brewers’ postseason story at Tropicana Field. As the Milwaukee faithful erupted, FOX play-by-play announcer Joe Davis began a familiar call, saying, “Hitting a high drive! Deep left field!” before adding, “Get up, get up, gone!”

Davis used that in-game moment as a direct homage to the late Hall of Fame Brewers radio voice Bob Uecker. The tribute connected the broadcast with Uecker’s signature home run call, which the source notes is displayed in lights at Milwaukee’s American Family Field: “Get up, get up, get outta here, gone!”

The broadcast tribute came during the World Series, and the source places Davis in the role as the play-by-play voice who has been calling the Fall Classic since 2022. After emerging from a Game 5 pregame meeting with Brewers manager Pat Murphy, Davis discussed how and why he chose to honor Uecker at that specific point in the series.

In the comments attributed to Davis by the source, he described himself as a “huge broadcast nerd” who has long studied Uecker’s craft. “Ueck is obviously a guy that you grew up listening to and was underrated because he was such a comic genius that his ability to master the craft and be an amazing play-by-play announcer didn’t get enough love,” Davis said, adding that he learned through listening and “just by osmosis” that the techniques “are in there.”

The source also documents how Davis’ relationship to Uecker developed before Davis fully reached major-league broadcasting. It states that Davis was still broadcasting Minor League games when he first met Uecker, and that he had an invitation to use a spare broadcast booth at then-Miller Park to practice play-by-play.

According to Davis in the source, that practice opportunity was designed to create “big league tape.” Davis explained that he had a computer and a sound board to produce a demo tape that he could show to “big league front offices,” describing the goal as demonstrating what he “sound[s] like at a big league game.”

Davis’s recollection continues with the source stating that he met Ueck at those practice sessions, and that Ueck “right away made me feel like I belonged in a press box.” Davis characterized himself at the time as “just this 23-year-old kid who had no idea what I was doing,” emphasizing how Uecker’s reception helped him feel included in the press box environment despite being new to it.

Within the same account, Davis’ decision to echo Uecker’s call in Game 4 is framed as a way to repay a longstanding influence. The source describes his Game 4 homage as “a chance to repay the favor,” linking the on-air tribute to the earlier moments when Uecker offered guidance and welcomed Davis into major-league broadcasting settings.

While the source emphasizes the broadcast gesture, the underlying game context remains the defining event: Pratt’s go-ahead homer in the 12th inning of Game 4, which the source describes as one of the most epic moments in Brewers postseason history and a potential World Series clincher.

With Davis adapting Uecker’s homer language during a series-altering at-bat, the tribute blended two eras of Brewers baseball—one delivered through a single, recognizable call that traces back to Uecker’s legacy in Milwaukee radio broadcasting. The source ties that legacy to both the atmosphere at Tropicana Field during Game 4 and the personal mentorship Davis described from his earlier career path.

In an exchange connected to the series’ progression, the source also places Davis in regular World Series assignment. Davis’ comments came after his Game 5 pregame meeting with Brewers manager Pat Murphy, underscoring that the tribute unfolded in the immediate lead-in to the next contest of the Fall Classic.