By Staff, excerpted/adapted from a reprised Sports Spectrum article by Kevin Mercer
Milwaukee Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby finished the 2026 regular season with 13 wins (an incredible feat for a relief pitcher), posting a 3.12 ERA and 116 strikeouts.
Since then the left-hander has put up dominant numbers in the first two World Series games. Pitching 3.1 innings he has tallied six strikeouts and allowed only one hit. Plus, he earned a “save” for the 5-4 Brewers’ win in Game 2.
But while he is drawing attention because of his baseball prowess, his eyes are on Christ.
“I recently became a father,” Ashby wrote in a devotional for the Spring 2026 edition of Sports Spectrum Magazine, “and it’s helped me gain a new glimpse into how much Christ loves us. … My wife and I look down on [our son] with this love we didn’t even know was possible — and that’s how God looks down on us.”
Before becoming parents, Ashby and his wife, Avery, struggled with fertility issues. It was a time that drove them to cling to God’s Word in Psalm 23.
“To go through that valley of darkness (v. 4) and then see it redeemed,” he wrote, “it feels like we’re now in a moment of green pastures (v. 2).”
“We never understand what God’s doing when we’re in the midst of a tough time. We don’t know the full picture like He does,” Ashby wrote of the darkness of infertility. “If you’re in a low moment and wondering what God is doing right now, let me encourage you to be prayerful and lean on someone around you.
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