Kylie Cantrall to Sing World Series Game 2 Anthem as Paul Molitor Throws First Pitch
The Milwaukee Brewers’ first World Series in 44 years already has its opening-night memories, and Saturday night brings two more. USA Today reports that singer and Disney star Kylie Cantrall will sing the national anthem before Game 2 against the Tampa Bay Rays, while Brewers Hall of Famer Paul Molitor will throw the ceremonial first pitch at American Family Field. First pitch is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, October 24, with the Brewers leading the best-of-seven series 1-0 after Friday’s 3-2 win in the opener.
Cantrall, 21, is best known to younger audiences for her starring role in Disney’s Descendants film series, and she released an EP titled “Valley Girl Problems” this summer, according to USA Today. The anthem slot puts a pop star at the centre of one of baseball’s biggest stages — a stage Milwaukee has waited more than four decades to host again.
Molitor is no stranger to that stage. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes he was Robin Yount’s former teammate and, with Yount, one of the two greatest players in franchise history. Molitor played 15 seasons for the Brewers from 1978 to 1992, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004, and helped the club reach the 1982 World Series, leading the league with 136 runs in the regular season and batting .340 across 12 playoff games before Milwaukee fell to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. His 39-game hitting streak in 1987 still has not been matched, and he later won World Series MVP with the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, the Journal Sentinel reports.
Friday’s opener leaned on franchise history too. The Journal Sentinel reports that Yount and former team owner and baseball commissioner Bud Selig threw the ceremonial first pitches before Game 1, while four-time Grammy nominee Mickey Guyton sang the anthem. Yount, who debuted at shortstop as an 18-year-old in 1974, spent 20 seasons with the Brewers, won the American League MVP award twice and had his No. 19 jersey retired before his Hall of Fame induction in 1999.
From here the Series moves south. USA Today reports the matchup shifts to Tampa Bay for Game 3 on Monday, October 26, Game 4 on Tuesday, October 27, and Game 5 on Wednesday, October 28, if necessary — with Game 6 on Friday, October 30, and a deciding Game 7 on Saturday, October 31, back in Milwaukee if the Series goes the distance. Whatever happens on the field, Saturday’s pregame ceremony already guarantees one thing: Milwaukee’s biggest baseball night in a generation will open with a familiar hero on the mound and a new-generation star at the microphone.
Sources: USA Today (24 October 2026); Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (23 October 2026).