The National League Central has another young pitching phenom, and it’s Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski. In just his second major league start on Friday night, Misiorowski threw six perfect innings before finally walking a batter and then allowing a two-run home run to Matt Wallner in the seventh inning.
At that point, Misiorowski was removed, but he still managed to get the win in Milwaukee’s 17-6 victory.
But it wasn’t just the fact that he went six perfect innings in his second Major League start that stood out. It was the way he did it, as well as the fact he has been nearly unhittable through his first two starts.
Almost literally.
In his big league debut against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 12, he threw five no-hit innings before being removed due to pitch-count reasons.
He followed that up by throwing six perfect innings on Friday.
Wallner’s home run ended a streak of 11 consecutive no-hit innings to open his career. That is the longest stretch of no-hit innings to begin a career for a starting pitcher in the expansion era (since 1961).
He is doing it with absolutely filthy stuff, including a 100-plus mph fastball that he unleashed at an unprecedented rate on Friday night.
Of his 86 pitches on Friday, a whopping 29 of them topped 100 mph.
If that sounds like a lot, it’s because it is. In fact, it’s more than most pitchers will ever throw in their career.
In the Statcast era, there have been only 23 pitchers who have ever thrown more than 29 100 mph pitches in their entire careers. Misiorowski did that in one game.
