{"id":75267,"date":"2024-05-31T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=75267"},"modified":"2024-05-31T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:34:53","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-city-connect-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/31\/milwaukee-brewers-city-connect-jerseys\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers&#8217; City Connect Jerseys Make 2024 Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Brewers will wear their alternate &#8220;City Connect&#8221; uniforms for the first time this season on Friday night at American Family Field. They will then open a three-game interleague series against the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The moment you&#8217;ve all been waiting for <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uBPgLzJTRD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/uBPgLzJTRD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brewers\/status\/1796604804980240392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First debuted in 2022, the powder blue jersey with the team nickname &#8220;Brew Crew&#8221; splashed across the chest and a hat intertwining the city&#8217;s area code (414) and airport abbreviation (MKE) had yet to be worn in 2024 due to various production and shipping delays. The delays were part of the issues plaguing the NIKE\/Fanatics overhaul of Major League Baseball uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>Those issues also delayed Milwaukee&#8217;s other alternate uniform set&#8217;s debut: the pinstriped, &#8220;throwback&#8221; style, which pays homage to the early-1980s squads that produced the Brewers&#8217; first\u2014and to this date, only\u2014World Series appearance in 1982.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brewers Unveil City Connect Look (2022)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCKKGumtzHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With both the pinstripe and City Connect sets now on hand, the Brewers have their full gamut of five different uniforms at their disposal. Along with the two alternates, there is a navy-blue alternate top and the traditional road grey and home cream sets.<\/p>\n<p>The City Connect series debuted in 2021 with seven teams &#8212; the Diamondbacks, Red Sox, Cubs, White Sox, Dodgers, Marlins, and Giants &#8212; getting the new, non-traditional looks. Milwaukee was one of the next seven teams to get its new threads a year later, and six more got theirs last season. The Blue Jays will <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/31\/blue-jays-debut-city-connect-jerseys-friday\/\" target=\"_self\">debut<\/a> their tonight, with the Twins slated to follow in June. Leaving the Yankees and Athletics as the only remaining teams without a City Connect jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: <em>\u00a0Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Brewers will wear their alternate &#8220;City Connect&#8221; uniforms for the first time this season on Friday night at American Family Field. They will then open a three-game interleague series against the Chicago White Sox. &nbsp; The moment you&#8217;ve all been waiting for pic.twitter.com\/uBPgLzJTRD \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) May 31, 2024 &nbsp; First debuted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5129,"featured_media":75296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28530,766,1252,28531],"class_list":["post-75267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewers","tag-city-connect","tag-fanatics","tag-mlb-uniforms","tag-nike"],"modified_by":"Chris Drosehn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}