David Hamilton Is a World Series Champion: The Former Longhorn Became the 12th Texas Player to Win the Fall Classic
Hamilton homered in the Series - only the second Longhorn ever to do it, after Pinky Higgins in 1940 - and hit .333 across Milwaukee's 13 playoff games as the Brewers beat Tampa Bay in five.
Add a Longhorn to the champions' roll. Former University of Texas infielder David Hamilton is a World Series champion after the Milwaukee Brewers closed out the Fall Classic with a 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 on Wednesday evening, Texas Athletics reported. Hamilton is the 12th former Texas player to win a World Series - and the first in over a decade.
His October was no cameo. Across Milwaukee's 13 playoff games, Hamilton hit .333 with two home runs, six runs batted in, seven runs scored, three stolen bases and a .950 OPS. In the Series itself he became only the second Texas player ever to homer in the Fall Classic, joining Pinky Higgins, who did it in 1940 - an 86-year gap between Longhorn home runs on baseball's biggest stage.
Hamilton played at Texas from 2017 through 2019, earning All-Big 12 Second Team honors and a place on the Austin Regional All-Tournament Team before starting the professional climb that ended, seven years after he was drafted, with a ring. Among former Longhorns, only Roger Clemens and Brandon Belt have won multiple World Series titles.
For a program that measures itself in Omaha trips, Hamilton's ring is a different kind of banner: proof that the path from Disch-Falk Field still runs to the last game of the baseball year. The Brewers' title - the first in franchise history - now carries a burnt-orange footnote.
