Whether he's starring or slumping, Christian Yelich has taken the torch as the face of the franchise in Milwaukee.

The tears came after a postgame interaction with legendary Milwaukee broadcaster Bob Uecker ... Yelich honored Uecker by wearing a checkered-plaid suit to the ballpark in New York.

From a slew of players signing extensions, to Aaron Judge putting up ridiculous numbers, to the New York Mets and San Francisco ... especially coming from Bob Nightengale's weekly column for ...

Marshall is an original member of the infamous 1962 New York Mets, and will be honored Monday ... “I’m facing Bob Gibson. The batter ahead of me had dug a pretty good hole in the batter ...

Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images In about 24 hours, Eduardo Rodriguez will take the mound at New York's Citi Field, making his sixth start of the season for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Mets.

So did director David Lynch, boxing legend George Foreman, and MLB Hall of Famer Bob Uecker. Below ... Trachtenberg was found dead in a New York City apartment on February 26.

Most people forget that Bob Uecker played major league baseball for five years. He won a World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964, as they topped the New York Yankees, managed by Yogi ...