Jacob Misiorowski kept building a Cy Young case on Sunday, and he did it with one of the most overpowering starts the game has seen in years.
The Milwaukee Brewers right-hander opened his 20th start of the season by blowing a swinging strikeout past Colorado’s first hitter at 103.4 mph, then kept stacking punchouts as the Rockies tried to survive at American Family Field. By the time he was done, Misiorowski had struck out 12 in five innings, allowed one hit and one run, and walked none.
The numbers around the outing were just as wild as the performance itself. As MLB.com’s Sarah Langs noted, Misiorowski recorded three strikeouts at 104 mph or faster, the most by any pitcher in a game in the pitch tracking era since 2008. That broke the mark he had set just a month earlier on June 12.
Those strikeouts came on pitches measured at 104.3 mph to Hunter Goodman in the first inning, 104.5 mph to Kyle Karros in the second, and 104.1 mph to Cole Carrigg in the second.
He wasn’t finished there. Misiorowski also piled up eight strikeouts on pitches clocked at 103 mph or faster, the most by any pitcher since 2008. That is a record he has matched and reset four times this season.
The fastball barrage was relentless. Of his 83 pitches, 66 were fastballs, and every one of those came in at 100 mph or harder. That set another record for the most 100 mph or faster pitches in a single game since 2008.
Misiorowski also reached a pair of rare milestones through four innings. He became the first pitcher since 1920 with 11 or more strikeouts and no hits allowed through four innings. At 24 years old and 114 days, he also became the youngest starter in 50 seasons to strike out 11 batters through his first four innings pitched.
Even the one mistake carried its own strange place in the record book. Cole Carrigg’s fifth-inning solo homer came off a 101.9 mph fastball that was outside the strike zone, making it the fastest pitch a Rockie has homered against since 2008 and tying for the 12th-fastest pitch anyone has ever turned into a home run in that span.
Misiorowski’s season numbers are starting to look just as imposing as the individual outings. His 1.58 ERA leads all pitchers in either league, his 185 strikeouts are 18 more than the next closest starter, Dylan Cease, and his 0.75 WHIP is 15 points better than the next qualified starter, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. His .149 batting average against also leads all pitchers.
The only real pause in the run came earlier, when arm fatigue caused him to be scratched from his final start before the All-Star break and then limited to four innings in his first outing after it. Six days later, that looked like nothing more than a brief interruption in a season that has otherwise been historic from start to finish.
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