Jacob Misiorowski has been a joy to watch since the day he set foot on a Major League mound for the first time. On Friday night, the one-year anniversary of his debut, he had his best game yet, delivering one of the most dominant performances we have ever seen.
Misiorowski struck out 15 batters on just 95 pitches in a shutout, maxing out at 104.5 mph along the way in the Brewers' 6-0 victory over the Phillies.
There’s so much to say about this one. Here are 13 stats and facts on Miz’s mastery.
The history
- As noted above, Misiorowski threw a 15-strikeout shutout on just 95 pitches. That’s the most strikeouts in a Maddux (shutout on fewer than 100 pitches) since pitch counts have been tracked (1988). He broke the previous record by two -- Tarik Skubal had a 13-strikeout Maddux on May 25, 2025. Talk about efficiency.
- On top of all that, Misiorowski allowed just one baserunner, on a fourth-inning single, which was erased on a double play. That’s right, he faced the minimum 27 batters. His 15 strikeouts are tied for the most by a pitcher in a game where he faced the minimum since at least 1900, with Erik Bedard on July 7, 2007. Bedard allowed two hits. The Miz allowed one.
- Misiorowski became the third pitcher with at least 15 strikeouts and no more than one baserunner in a shutout since at least 1900. He joined Max Scherzer in his Oct. 3, 2015 no-hitter and Clayton Kershaw in his June 18, 2014 no-hitter. That’s future Hall of Fame company.
- This may have been his best yet, but dominating is nothing new for Misiorowski. He now has a 0.17 ERA in his last eight starts. That’s the lowest ERA in an eight-start span since earned runs became official (1913), excluding openers, surpassing Chris Sale's 0.20 mark for the Red Sox in 2018. Truly, factually, one of the greatest stretches. Ever. Think about that.
- More evidence towards the greatest stretch ever? He’s allowed just one extra-base hit in those last eight starts. He also has 80 strikeouts. Misiorowski is the only pitcher since at least 1900 with 60 or more strikeouts and one or no extra-base hits allowed in an eight-game span. Pure dominance.
The velocity
- This is Jacob Misiorowski. That means he didn’t just do historic things. He did them with his equally historic velocity, which was on display from the beginning. He recorded a strikeout at 104.5 mph in the first inning, the fastest pitch by a starter since pitch tracking began in 2008. He now has each of the 23 fastest pitches by starters on record.
- Misiorowski had three strikeouts at 103 mph or faster in the first inning. The only other pitcher with three 103-plus mph Ks in an inning under tracking is Aroldis Chapman on Aug. 10, 2016. The hardest-throwing starter we have ever seen joining the hardest-throwing reliever.
- Those three strikeouts in the first were the fastest of his career as a starter and thus by all starters under tracking -- 104.5 mph, 104.1 mph and 103.5 mph. Entering this season, the fastest strikeout by a starter was 102.6 mph by Skubal to end the game on May 25, 2025. Now, Misiorowski has each of the top 14 on the list.
- Back to the 104.5 mph for a moment. If we remove the starting pitcher qualifier, it’s tied for the fourth-fastest strikeout pitch under tracking, with Mason Miller in NL Wild Card Series Game 2 last year. The only faster strikeouts were by Ben Joyce twice (105.5 mph, 104.7 mph) and Chapman (104.7 mph).
- Of his 15 strikeouts, 12 were at least 100 mph -- three more than any other pitcher in a game under tracking. Ten of those were at least 101 mph, eight at least 102 mph, six at least 103 mph and two at least 104 mph. Each of those set records for most strikeouts at those velocity thresholds in a game.
- Misiorowski threw 58 pitches at least 100 mph, besting his May 25, 2026 start for the most in a game under tracking. He has each of the three highest totals on the list, and they’re three of his last four starts. Fourty-four of those pitches were at least 101 mph, the second-most by any pitcher in any game behind his 45 last time out.
- He started the ninth inning with a changeup (92.2 mph!) and then went heaters the rest of the way. Entering Friday, the fastest ninth-inning pitch by a starter was Skubal’s aforementioned 102.6 mph game-ending strikeout. Misiorowski’s final five pitches were all faster than that, topping out at 103.7 mph.
- There are only two other starters to hit 103 mph since tracking began: Jordan Hicks, twice in the first inning of a game as an opener, and Justin Verlander, in the fifth inning of 2011 ALCS Game 5. Misiorowski had reached 103 mph after the fifth inning once entering the night, a seventh-inning pitch on May 13. On Friday, he reached 103 mph three times in the ninth.