With stuff this nasty on both mounds and both offenses banged up in spots, a low-scoring night felt inevitable before a pitch was thrown, and that's exactly how it played out.
Atlanta needed a win over the White Sox just to snap out of a funk, having been swept 0-3 by the Twins right before that, and arrived at 2-3 in the last 5. Milwaukee came in considerably hotter at 4-1 in the last 5, having taken 2 of the first 3 against the Mariners, including a 22-0 blowout along the way.
Atlanta's rotation was already stretched thin without Spencer Strider and Spencer Schwellenbach, both still building back from elbow trouble, and Jurickson Profar's season-long suspension hasn't made things easier for a lineup that could use another bat. Milwaukee, for its part, is still waiting on Frelick and has JoJo Romero and Abner Uribe working their way back into the bullpen. None of it stopped the Brewers from making the 1 extra run count.
Misiorowski's Cy Young case just added another line to it, and this one mattered beyond the box score — Milwaukee carries the better record in the National League, and every win over a good team like Atlanta is about staying there, not just banking one on the schedule.