The Cubs are getting one more look at Jacob Misiorowski this season, and they’ve already seen the full range.
On Tuesday night at American Family Field, Misiorowski is slated to make his fourth start of the year against Chicago and his second straight against the Cubs. Unless the rivals cross paths again in October, this will be the final chapter of their 2026 season matchup.
The right-hander is coming off a rough night at Wrigley Field last Wednesday, when he never really settled in on the road. He needed 92 pitches to get through four innings and gave up five earned runs, matching his season high. It was a far cry from the version of Misiorowski that can overwhelm hitters with sheer stuff.
Even so, the Cubs have had to deal with that version too. Through three starts against Chicago this season, the 24-year-old is 2-0 with a 3.38 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 16 innings, and Milwaukee has won all three games.
For Misiorowski, the result mattered more than the line last week.
“That’s all I want to talk about, really,” Misiorowski said. “That was electric.
To have the guys come behind me and put up run after run after run was awesome. In a big game like this, it helps out.”
His first meeting with the Cubs in Milwaukee, on June 26, delivered one of the season’s loudest flashes. Early in the game, he fired a 105.5 mph fastball past Chicago star Pete Crow-Armstrong on the third pitch he threw, a number that tied for the third-fastest fastball ever tracked by Statcast in the pitch-tracking era since 2008.
Chicago still found a way to make him grind. The Cubs kept fouling off pitches, stretched out at-bats and eventually cracked him when Seiya Suzuki led off the fifth with a 90.1 mph slider and sent it the other way for a home run. That blast ended Misiorowski’s no-hit bid and put the Cubs in front 1-0.
"They had a game plan coming in to battle me and foul stuff off," Misiorowski said. "They stuck with it, and more power to them."
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