Brewers rookie-turned-ace Jacob Misiorowski took the mound against Colorado and immediately made the game feel like a formality. He didn't just retire the first seven Rockies hitters he saw, he struck out every single one of them, and the pitch-tracking graphics lighting up during his warmup sequence made it clear something different was happening early.
An early strikeout with a 104 MPH four-seamer flashed on screen, a sign of the velocity Misiorowski was working with all afternoon.
By the time he'd worked through the Rockies lineup a second time, Barstool's baseball feed had shifted from tracking strikeouts to just posting reaction after reaction. Seven straight to open a game isn't a common thing, and it set a Milwaukee franchise record, per ESPN's recap of the outing.
The moment the seventh straight strikeout landed and the record officially became real.
Misiorowski didn't let off the gas after the streak ended. He struck out 12 of the first 13 batters he faced and retired the first 14 hitters of the game outright before Cole Carrigg broke up the perfect-game bid with a two-out homer in the fifth, according to ESPN. Still, a start like that from a guy who only debuted in the majors last June is the kind of thing that turns a promising rookie into a name every contending team has to game-plan around.
The final line was absurd even by his own standards: 83 pitches, 5 innings, and a reported 66 of those pitches clocked at 100-plus mph, another mark he set for himself, per FOX Sports. Milwaukee closed it out with an 11-2 win. For a Brewers team that leaned on Misiorowski's stuff in last year's postseason run right after he made an All-Star team in his rookie season, this is exactly the kind of afternoon that reminds everyone why they're building around him.
None of it should be a total shock at this point. Misiorowski was a second-round pick out of Crowder Junior College back in 2022, and the hype around his fastball-slider combo has followed him through every level since. What's changed is that the moments are starting to show up in games that matter, against lineups that are supposed to be able to handle triple-digit heat. If Sunday was any indication, the league still hasn't figured out how.