Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski had one of the best performances of his career against a top scoring AL team.
The Milwaukee Brewers watched Jacob Misiorowski throw the hardest pitch by a starter in the Statcast era as three hit 103.6 mph on Friday night. The 24-year-old righty was historically dominant against the New York Yankees, striking out 11 in six innings in one of the better nights of his career. Misiorowski’s velocity on his pitches broke the record of 103.2 mph set by Jordan Hicks on July 12, 2022, owning the highest velocity now by any MLB starter since Statcast began tracking it in 2008.
Prior to Misiorowski’s performance Friday, starters had a combined four pitches of 103-plus mph in that tracking era. Misiorowski threw 10 pitches of at least 103 mph in one outing. 41 of his 95 pitches hit 100-plus mph. Aroldis Chapman is the only other pitcher to have 10 or more pitches hit 103 mph or higher in one performance.
And what a performance it was, with zero runs allowed and 11 strikeouts over six innings in the 6-0 win that bested the highest scoring team in the American League. It was a night that he began impeccably, finally reaching the 103-mph mark on his 71st pitch in the fifth inning before ending his night with back-to-back strikeouts of Yankees’ star Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger.
To read more about Misiorowski’s historic night, here is the full story from Brewers Roundtable writer Joe Rutland.
Misiorowski now leads baseball with 70 strikeouts through eight starts and became the first pitcher to hit that metric through his first eight starts since Spencer Strider in 2023. Misiorowski won impressive head-to-head starts against Paul Skenes and Clayton Kershaw as a rookie and is showing why he has that high leverage skill as one of the better arms in baseball is just heating up.