Jacob Misiorowski didn’t just make a statement in Game 1 of the NLDS. He blasted straight through the record book.
The Milwaukee Brewers’ starter opened Saturday night against the San Diego Padres by firing a 104.8 mph pitch, which immediately stood as the fastest pitch ever thrown in an MLB postseason game. That alone would have been enough to turn heads. Misiorowski kept going.
By the end of his start, he had thrown three pitches at 104 mph or harder, giving him three separate slices of postseason history in one outing. Jayson Stark of The Athletic noted that Misiorowski also became the owner of the two fastest pitches ever recorded in a postseason game, with his first two offerings clocked at 104.8 mph and 104.6 mph.
Stark wrote, "It also took him two pitches to fire the two fastest pitches ever recorded in a postseason game (104.8 mph on his first pitch, 104.6 on his second),"
The 2026 MLB postseason is still just getting started, and Misiorowski has already stacked his first appearance with a record-breaking burst of velocity. Stark highlighted the trio of pitches at 104.8, 104.6, and 104.5 mph as the fastest trio ever thrown in a single postseason game.
There was a fitting twist to it all, too. Mason Miller, who had held the previous playoff record at 104.5 mph during last year’s playoffs, was in the Padres bullpen and waiting for a chance to close out the game in the ninth.
Before Miller, the postseason velocity crown belonged to Aroldis Chapman, whose 104.2 mph pitch in Game 3 of the NLDS stood for 15 years. Misiorowski topped that mark three times over in one start.
For a pitcher in just his second big-league season, it’s another jaw-dropping entry in a growing pile of hard-throwing milestones.
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