Jacob Misiorowski spent Sunday afternoon doing something the Rockies couldn’t handle: throwing gas and piling up strikeouts at a pace that kept rewriting the Brewers’ record book.
Against Colorado, Misiorowski opened with a first inning that looked unfair. He touched 104 MPH four times and struck out the side, then came right back and struck out the side again in the second. After fanning Willi Castro to begin the third, he had seven straight strikeouts to start the game, breaking the franchise mark of six previously set by Quinn Priester.
He finally allowed a ball in play when Troy Johnston flied out to center, but that only briefly interrupted the run. Misiorowski answered by striking out the next five hitters, leaving him with 12 strikeouts through 13 batters.
“That’s pretty impressive. Yeah, there’s nothing more impressive than that.” Pat Murphy said.
Colorado eventually cracked the spell in the fifth. Cole Carrigg jumped on a 2-2 fastball up in the zone at 102 MPH and sent it over the left field wall for a solo homer, ending the perfect game, no-hitter and shutout bid.
Willi Castro later reached on a hit-by-pitch, but Misiorowski finished the inning by getting Troy Johnston to ground out. That was the end of his day, with Milwaukee keeping him on a careful buildup after a two-week layoff around the All-Star Break.
He threw 83 pitches and could have gone back out for the sixth, but Pat Murphy chose to hand the game to the bullpen.
The raw velocity was ridiculous even by Misiorowski’s standards. He threw 66 fastballs, and every one of them came in at 100+ MPH. He also set a new mark for most 103+ MPH pitches in a game with 33, blowing past the previous high of 12, and he reached 104+ MPH seven times.
The Brewers backed him up with a barrage of extra-base hits. They scored three in the first on a Jackson Chourio double, a Brice Turang single and a William Contreras double.
After that, Colorado held them quiet until the sixth, when Milwaukee sent 10 men to the plate. Andrew Vaughn started the inning with his fourth home run of the year, then Jake Bauers and Gary Sanchez walked back-to-back. From there, the rookies kept the line moving: Luis Lara and Cooper Pratt ripped consecutive doubles.
“They’re going to be very consistent, good baseball players. I think that the reason the organization signed them long-term is they sensed in them that this is how they play and they’ve been really steady” Pat Murphy said.
Joey Ortiz then made it three straight doubles, adding his second extra-base hit of the day as he stayed hot. Milwaukee scored five in the inning, then kept pouring it on in the seventh with four straight hits: a Bauers single, doubles by Sanchez and Lara, and a Pratt single.
The Brewers added one more in the eighth against position player pitcher Brett Sullivan.
By the end of the night, Milwaukee had piled up nine doubles, tying a franchise record and marking the sixth time the club has done it. The last time the Brewers hit nine doubles in a game was July 6, 2008 against the Pirates.
Milwaukee used five relievers over the final four innings. Chad Patrick couldn’t finish the sixth, but Aaron Ashby needed just one pitch to close it out. Grant Anderson allowed a solo homer to Willi Castro in the seventh, Craig Yoho worked a 1-2-3 eighth, and Bryse Wilson handled the ninth.
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