Jacob Misiorowski put on a dominant outing as the Milwaukee Brewers routed the Colorado Rockies.
The Milwaukee Brewers constructed a dominant win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, 11-2, at American Family Field in Milwaukee.
The win concludes the Brewers’ series against Colorado and, by extension, their nine-game homestand. What led to their big victory?
Misiorowski dazzles
Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski’s historic season seemed to be hitting a wall ahead of the All-Star break.
Misiorowski was scratched from a July 12 high-leverage start against Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes due to arm fatigue, and he did not play in the All-Star Game, either. When Misiorowski returned to the mound against the New York Mets on July 20, he was limited to four innings to gradually return his workload.
But, on Sunday, Misiorowski looked like himself again and he accomplished another feat that will be etched into the lore of the Brewers franchise.
The 24-year-old struck out the first seven batters he faced, which snatched the franchise record from his teammate Quinn Priester after the latter struck out six in a row in a September 2025 outing against the Los Angeles Angels.
Misiorowski’s dominant effort was made more impressive by the fact that he notched a total of 12 strikeouts in five innings of work and on just 83 total pitches, 59 of which were strikes. His only blemishes during the afternoon were allowing a solo home run to Cole Carrigg in the top of the fifth before subsequently hitting Will Castro with a pitch.
Misiorowski was awarded the winning decision, which pushed him to 11-4 on the season.
Takeover in the first and sixth
After Misiorowski struck out the side in the top of the first inning, the Brewers’ offense provided a lead for him in the bottom frame.
Jackson Chourio got things going with a leadoff double before Brice Turang reached on a successful bunt that scored Chourio when Kyle Freeland committed a throwing error. William Contreras followed up with a double of his own, and Freeland messed up again when he threw a wild pitch that scored Turang.
Milwaukee capped off a three-run first inning when Jake Bauers notched an RBI groundout. The Rockies got on the board in the fifth to make it a 3-1 game, but the Brewers took over in the sixth.
The bottom of the inning began with a solo home run by Andrew Vaughn, which marked his fourth of the season. After Contreras struck out, Bauers walked, and the Rockies decided to go to their bullpen, but it didn’t matter.
Reliever Jimmy Herget walked Gary Sanchez before allowing an RBI double to Luis Lara that gave the Brewers a 5-1 lead. Fellow rookie Cooper Pratt provided a two-RBI double of his own, and the young tandem accounted for four more RBIs one day after combining for six in Milwaukee’s 8-5 win over Colorado.
The Brewers’ five-run sixth inning was capped off by a Brice Turang double and a groundout by Chourio that scored Pratt. The Rockies scored in the top of the seventh, but it hardly mattered as doubles by Sanchez and Lara put two more runs on the board.
Milwaukee put the finishing touches on its blowout victory in the bottom of the eighth with one more run, and it was a convincing end to a good homestand in which the Brewers went 7-2. Now, they will travel to San Francisco to face the Giants on Monday, which kicks off a West Coast trip.
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