#Minnesota man uses 25-foot lift to peek at Twins-Brewers game

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Peter Zlebek used a cherry picker to get a look inside the stadium at the Brewers vs. Twins baseball game.

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The televised, empty-stadium return of Major League Baseball just doesn’t cut it for die-hard fans like Peter Zlebek.

The 30-year-old Milwaukee Brewers fan ached for in-person baseball so badly that he rented a 25-foot personnel lift, dragged it to the top of a downtown Minneapolis parking garage raised himself high enough to see his team play the Twins.

Assisted by his brother, Klebel caught two-and-half innings of Tuesday’s game at Target Field before cops told him to scram.

“I’d be the first person in line to go to a Brewers-Twins game if it were safe and something I felt good about in terms of social distancing,” Zlebek told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“As much as the view is much better on TV — the camera angles are so much better than being 600 feet from home plate — but the live ball experience, I’ve been itching for it all summer.”

Zlebek said he spent $140 total on some beer and the lift, which he walked over from his brother’s home in the neighborhood, the Star Tribune said.

The Zlebeks — Wisconsin natives both living in Minneapolis — slapped two posters on the contraption with the message: “Not in the stands, but you still have fans.”

Zlebek told the Journal-Sentinel he had parked in the garage before, and knew it as a spot with a view into the stadium.

“The wall is kind of high, and you can’t get a great view without straining your back. I thought maybe I could get a ladder,” he said.

“In my head, it was always just, ‘How do I watch baseball?’ and less about being visible. But I thought, ‘That’s a good idea, let’s do that, too.’”

The two brothers briefly got away with it thanks to security guards who Zlebek said were “jovial” and appreciative of their “creativity.”

A rep for the Minnesota Twins told the Star Tribune the Zlebek’s stunt “shows the strange season that 2020 really is and the passion that fans are showing.”

Minneapolis police were less pleased.

“The police didn’t arrest us or anything, but they were clear: Don’t come back,” Zlebek told the Star Tribune.

“I’m glad I got to watch the rest from my couch.”