Jacob Misiorowski keeps stacking up numbers that don’t look real, and Thursday gave him another line for the record books.
The Milwaukee Brewers right-hander worked six innings against the New York Mets, allowed two runs and struck out six in his 25th start of the season. That pushed him to a 1.73 ERA over 151 innings, and he still sits atop the league in ERA, strikeouts with 222, ERA+ at 240, FIP at 2.14, WHIP at 0.755 and strikeouts per nine innings at 13.2.
The bigger headline came with the way he got there. Misiorowski became the first pitcher since Dwight Gooden in 1985 to begin a season with 25 straight starts in which he allowed three runs or fewer.
ESPN noted the feat this way: "Jacob Misiorowski just accomplished something not done in MLB since 1985 ... He became the first pitcher since Doc Gooden to start a season with 25 straight starts allowing 3 ER or less in each," ESPN shared.
"He's only the 7th pitcher to ever have a streak that long."
Jacob Misiorowski just accomplished something not done in MLB since 1985 ... He became the first pitcher since Doc Gooden to start a season with 25 straight starts allowing 3 ER or less in each. He's only the 7th pitcher to ever have a streak that long 🔥 pic.twitter.com/5Rf8mtBGRm
The history hasn’t stopped there. Back in June, he fired a 105.5 miles per hour fastball, the hardest pitch ever thrown by a starter.
And while other arms are having strong seasons - Chris Sale with the Atlanta Braves, Cristopher Sanchez with the Philadelphia Phillies and Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the Los Angeles Dodgers among them - Misiorowski has separated himself. The source of that separation is simple: no one else has matched what he’s done.
For Milwaukee, it’s been a revelation. The season he’s putting together is being framed as one of the best by a starter in Brewers history, even better than CC Sabathia’s run after he was acquired in 2008.
The way this story is being told, the Cy Young race isn’t really a race at all. Misiorowski has put himself in position to win the 2026 National League Cy Young Award, and the only real question left is whether he gets every first-place vote.
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