Plumbing Help for World Series Tickets? Brewers Fans Dangle Deals
A creative quest for seats as resale price of Game 1 ticket hits $2,800.
Milwaukee Brewers closer Trevor Megill takes the field for the 9th inning of game one of the 2026 National League Championship series Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wis. Megill pitched a scoreless inning to complete a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Angela Major/WPR
Natasha Moser is a diehard Milwaukee Brewers fan.
The West Allis resident attended the first two games of the National League Division Series in Milwaukee, but decided to stay home and watch the National League Championship Series at home to save up for World Series tickets this year.
Late last week, the Brewers swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in that series, punching their ticket to their first World Series appearance in over 40 years.
“When the World Series tickets came out and we saw the pricing, it was insane,” Moser said. “Having four teenage kids, it’s expensive.”
Moser’s husband is a master plumber and she had an idea — what if someone with tickets to the Fall Classic would trade those tickets for plumbing services?
“That could be a way that we might be able to go to a game, just one game, whatever it is, I don’t care where we sit,” Moser said. “To be in that stadium, have that experience, is once in a lifetime.”
Moser is just one of the Brewers fans who are hoping to trade services or items for a chance at seeing the team’s first home World Series games in over four decades.
“It’s just such a big dream of ours to go and to experience it live,” Moser said.
Milwaukee Brewers fans watching from Major Goolsby’s, a Milwaukee bar, react as the team beats the Los Angeles Dodgers to advance to the World Series on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wis. Angela Major/WPR
Waterford resident Casey Kusch is trying to trade his 20-foot pontoon boat for tickets to a home game.
“I figured, hey, you know, what the heck? Maybe I can get some tickets in exchange for selling my pontoon,” Kusch said.
Kusch grew up a Brewers fan, going to games with his dad at County Stadium, the club’s former ballpark. Now, he wants his daughter to experience a World Series game with him.
“Pontoons come and go, but taking my daughter to the World Series and creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity … well, for me, it’s way more valuable than a pontoon,” he said.
As of Monday morning, the cheapest tickets for Game 1 and Game 2 of the World Series were around $2,800, according to Keith Pagello, the founder of TicketData.com.
“If those prices held, those would be the two most expensive World Series games ever,” Pagello said.
“Even if they came down all the way down to say $2,000, they would still be the most expensive World Series games ever,” he added.
Wisconsin residents got special access to purchase World Series tickets last week.
“Demand for postseason tickets has been extraordinarily high, and the inventory of seats for individual purchase for possible World Series games at American Family Field will be extremely limited,” said Rick Schlesinger, the team’s president of business operations, in a statement about the presale.
The Milwaukee Brewers won a franchise record 103 games during the 2026 regular season. Evan Casey/WPR
Brewers fan Todd Feiter of Oshkosh went to a World Series game in Milwaukee in 1982, the last time the series was in the city. He said he paid $18 for that ticket.
This year, he’s offering up his Green Bay Packers tickets for a chance to get inside American Family Field.
“I thought maybe there’s somebody out there that would be very interested in making a swap,” Feiter said.
Feiter is unsure if someone will take him up on the offer.
“We’ll see what happens,” Feiter said.
“But I get it — everybody wants to go, and supply and demand, and it is what it is,” he said. “And I’ll be in front of the TV pulling hard on Friday.”
The Eau Claire-based folk rock band Them Coulee Boys made a post on social media, joking they would trade their van for tickets to a home game.
“We’re huge fans, and we thought it was funny to capture that optimism in desperation,” said Soren Staff, the guitarist and singer of the band. “I think everybody wants to be there, and we would definitely want to be there too.”
The World Series will return to Milwaukee on Friday. The Brewers will face the Tampa Bay Rays.
If Moser is able to get into the stadium, she said she’ll be thinking of loved ones who have passed away who shared her love of the team. She said getting tickets “would be nothing short of a miracle.”
“Being in that stadium for that series would be me thinking of them and being able to represent their love for the game as well,” she said.
Plumbing help for World Series tickets? Brewers fans are getting creative in quest for seats was originally published by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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