Sep 3, 2026 9:00 PM

Despite a humid stumble at Wrigley Field, the Milwaukee Brewers ace maintains league-leading metrics and an unmatched opponent average.

Through Wednesday, Sept. 2, Jacob Misiorowski still has the best ERA in all of baseball.

Despite it jumping from 1.73 to 1.97, the highest it's been since May 13, Misiorowski has done enough great work for the Milwaukee Brewers that he's still one of, if not the best pitchers in all of baseball.

The Cy Young race is heating up with less than a month to go, and Miz is coming off an absolute stinker against the Chicago Cubs. 

He'll be the first to tell you that his start didn't go according to plan, but he wasn't able to get a good grip on the baseball due to the humidity.

At the end of the day, Misiorowski's struggles followed Kyle Harrison's in game one of the Cubs series where the Brewers lost 17-3. 

Regardless, Miz still has league leading numbers in both his WHIP (0.79) and strikeouts (1.97), so that right there proves why he's undeniably the next starting pitcher to win the legendary award.

One bad start doesn't ruin everything

One bad start for Misiorowski shouldn't wash away all of the great things he's done this season. Misiorowski proved he was human, so what? He allowed five earned runs in four innings, but that's something most starting pitchers do consistently.

Misiorowski is built different, and it's crazy to say, but this was his first start of the entire season where he allowed more than three earned runs. 

This is a guy who hasn't had his ERA above 3.58 during any individual season, and that was back in April when he was still setlling in.

Misiorowski had a 0.23 ERA during 38.1 innings of work in the month of May, and then his ERA was just 0.96 in June after he threw 28.0 innings.

To say Misiorowski is special would be an understatement, and that's why so many people have begun to overreact over his one "bad" start at Wrigley Field.

Opposing teams are hitting just .155 against Misiorowski, and that's the best average in the league by far. Dylan Cease's .176 is the next closest, but there are only four starting pitchers in the entire game that have that number under .200.

Misiorowski's 14 wins put him two shy of the league-leading number, so the triple crown may not become a reality, but at the end of the day, no one should be taking his name out of the Cy Young conversation because of his latest start.

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