It’s protected to say Milwaukee Brewers flame-thrower Jacob Misiorowski was amped to face the New York Yankees for the first time May 8.
Coming inside an eyelash of an immaculate inning, Misiorowski threw 10 pitches, all in extra of 102 miles per hour, and labored a 1-2-3 first body with two strikeouts. The last pitch he threw, a flyout off the bat of Aaron Judge, registered at 103.6 miles per hour and set a file for the quickest pitch thrown within the pitch-tracking period (since 2008).
It was a whale of a kickoff to what turned a spectacular six innings of labor for Misiorowski, with two walks, two hits and nil runs allowed in Milwaukee’s 6-0 win.
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“Yeah, I mean it was probably one of the top three,” Misiorowski stated when requested afterward the place his total efficiency ranked for him. Keep in thoughts, it was begin No. 22 in his main league profession up to now.
“Have to go playoffs for (the best), but it’s definitely up there after that.”
Misiorowski’s second pitch to Judge, thrown 103.5 miles per hour, set a file. His third pitch, at 103.1, missed narrowly off the plate, so he got here again with 103.6 to re-write his personal new file and induce a fly out to Sal Frelick. Misiorowski struck out Judge in each of the opposite head-to-head at-bats throughout the night.
All informed, he threw the 5 quickest pitches ever tracked for a starter within the first inning alone.
Misiorowski obtained former Brewers outfielder Trent Grisham and Ben Rice on swinging third strikes for the first two outs.
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Coming into the night time, there had solely been three fastballs by a beginning pitcher thrown 103 mph whole within the pitch-tracking period, together with one by Misiorowski. And then he threw seven within the first inning alone, en path to 10 for his outing.
“I had no clue,” he stated relating to the potential immactulate inning. “I got told in the dugout. I went back and looked and thought it was close (the ball to Judge), but oh well.”
Misiorowski matched the top-flight studying with two 103.6 mph seeds to Spencer Jones earlier than hanging him out on an 89 mph curveball within the second. That gave Misiorowski 9 pitches of 103 miles per hour or extra within the first two frames on his strategy to 10 total.
The file for 103 mph pitches in a big-league look coming into the night time was 12.
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“Just, everything was timed up and dialed in,” Misiorowski stated when requested what he was feeling on the mound. “It felt good.”
Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski throws a pitch within the first inning against the New York Yankees at American Family Field on May 8, 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Misiorowski was in a position to preserve his unimaginable velocity deep into his begin, too, as he hit 103 mph along with his 71st pitch and 102.7 along with his next-to-last pitch – No. 94 total – as he went on to complete his night time with strikeouts of Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger.
“Not at this level, but I’ve had games in the past where I’ve had a sudden burst of adrenaline in the fifth or sixth, and you really find it,” he stated. “But this was a first for the big leagues.”
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Manager Pat Murphy attributed Misiorowski’s potential to take care of his velocity to the work he is put in between begins.
“If you look at his legs and look at his body, he’s working,” Murphy stated. “Our strength staff is showing him, ‘This is how you’ve got to maintain if you’re a major league pitcher.’ You’ve got to work in there between those five days, and he’s in there working.
“It takes some time. When you come up you do not notice how a lot it’s to get six innings in a sport against a lineup like that. You do not realize the conditioning that it takes, the psychological up and down, the exhaustion, the adrenaline – all the things that it takes.”
Misiorowski left his last start May 1 after he experienced cramping in his right hamstring after 5 ⅓ no-hit innings in Washington, D.C. but indicated later Friday that he never had any doubt he would remain on track to pitch again without interruption.
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With two perfect innings to start May 8, Misiorowski had recorded 25 consecutive outs between hits allowed. Yankees shortstop Jose Caballero singled to center leading off the third to break the streak.
Misiorowski threw more 103-plus mph pitches in the first inning than 17 teams have thrown across all their games in the pitch tracking era.
This article initially appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Jacob Misiorowski sets velocity records against Yankees in first