Misiorowski opens with 7 straight Ks, baseball Twitter loses it

Forget a slow start. Misiorowski walked out for the first inning against the Rockies and just started erasing the lineup. One batter down, two, three, and the strikeouts kept piling up before Colorado managed to put a single ball in play. For a Brewers team that's been quietly building one of the best rotations in baseball around this 24-year-old, it was the kind of opening that makes you stop whatever you're doing and pull up the box score.

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The Miz is dialed in

That fastball number isn't a fluke or a broadcast exaggeration, either. Misiorowski has been the hardest thrower among starting pitchers since velocity tracking began back in 2008 — he set the record with a 103.7 mph heater against these same Rockies back in June, then broke his own mark a week later at 104.5. So when the on-screen graphic flashes triple digits, that's just Tuesday for this guy.

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Jacob Misiorowski strikes out the first SEVEN batters of the game

The bigger story here is the season Misiorowski is having, not just one electric first inning. Through this point in the year he's sitting on a 2.56 ERA with well over 250 strikeouts, and he was already an All-Star selection off a rookie campaign that saw him post a sub-3.00 ERA in his first handful of big league starts. A 63rd overall pick out of Crowder College in 2022 who signed for over a million dollars above slot, he's gone from a helium prospect with a wild arm to arguably the most must-watch arm in the sport in about two years.

None of that context is lost on the Barstool crowd, who have basically adopted him as appointment viewing at this point. Every time Misiorowski takes the mound now it's treated like an event, and today's first-inning demolition job is exactly why. When a guy can run it up to 104 and still locate a slider for a called third strike, seven straight punchouts stops looking like a hot streak and starts looking like the new normal.