MILWAUKEE (AP) — Tens of thousands of exuberant Brewers fans flooded the streets, watched from parking garages and cheered from office building windows in downtown Milwaukee on Friday to celebrate the franchise’s first World Series title.

The small-market Brewers gave their long-suffering fans the championship they had been waiting for with a 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, clinching the Series in five games. It was their first time playing in the Fall Classic in 44 years.

“Unbelievable,” said parade attendee Mark Diedrich, a 76-year-old who has been an on-and-off partial season ticket holder since the 1980s. “You just never thought it would happen. But it did.”

Players on buses chugged cans of Miller Lite beer, walked the parade route high-fiving fans and hoisted the Commissioner’s Trophy as the cheers echoed through the streets.…