MILWAUKEE – Joey Wiemer came back to American Family Field this weekend with a fun fact, the kind that makes you stop walking and just stare.
Brewers fans still talk about the collision at Yankee Stadium in September 2023. Wiemer and Sal Frelick collided on the warning track in right-center field, and Frelick somehow came away with an insane catch. It wasn’t just a highlight reel moment either—the catch kept the Brewers’ bid for a no-hitter alive for a 10th full inning. Of course, baseball being baseball, it all unraveled after that. They lost the no-hitter in the 11th inning and eventually lost the game in the 13th, but that play still sticks in people’s heads.
Wiemer even showed a scar on his left elbow from the incident. He says it was caused by the scoreboard on the outfield wall at that spot. He also took an elbow to the chin from Frelick—so yeah, not exactly the clean, camera-ready collision you’d want. “I definitely got the worst of that one,” Wiemer said.
He returned to Milwaukee with his fourth team since the Brewers traded Wiemer to the Reds in the Frankie Montas deal in July 2024. That’s a weird stat by itself, and it kind of hangs in the air when he talks—like, wait, already? He did have a moment early this season that felt made for a highlight package too. Wiemer helped out the Brewers as part of a record-tying run, becoming the second player in the Live Ball Era (since 1920) to reach base 10 consecutive times to start the season. (Toronto’s Carlos Delgado was the other, in 2002.)
How did that help? Well, it came right into the Nationals’ first series too. Their opening run had them playing at Wrigley Field, and Wiemer went 6-for-6 with two homers against the Cubs in a pair of Washington wins. The details matter here because it’s not just “he played well”—it’s that he did it in a way that flipped games, twice, and then kept the momentum moving.
Standing near the concourse with that scar story fresh in your mind, you can almost hear the stadium energy from a different night—maybe the squeak of cleats, maybe the muffled crack of a bat somewhere behind the gates. The point is, the memories don’t fade. They get carried. Wiemer is proof of that, and it’s the same reason fans keep replaying that Yankee moment—even if the no-hitter didn’t finish the job.
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