Jacob Misiorowski keeps adding chapters to a season that already looks unlike anything MLB has seen.
On Tuesday night, the 24-year-old Milwaukee starter became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball history to top 1,000 triple-digit fastballs in a single season. As Jesse Rogers of ESPN wrote on X, “Jacob Misiorowski has now thrown over 1,000 triple digit fastballs in a season for the first time in MLB history,” adding that “The next most triple digit pitches in a season in the pitch tracking era (2008) was Jordan Hicks in 2018 with 659.”
By the time the night was over, Misiorowski had pushed that total to 1,010.
He backed up the milestone with another dominant outing against the postseason-bound Chicago Cubs. Misiorowski worked into the seventh inning, struck out nine, and gave up just four hits and one earned run. That kept his ERA below two while also padding his National League-leading strikeout total to 236.
Even with Misiorowski dealing, the game still turned into a grind. Milwaukee and Chicago were tied 1-1 heading into the ninth before the Cubs scored twice in the top half of the inning. The Brewers answered to force extras, then held Chicago scoreless in the 10th.
That set up Luis Lara to finish it off with a walk-off single in front of the home crowd. Misiorowski didn’t get the decision, but he left behind another line that only strengthens the case that this season is becoming his own kind of blueprint.
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