{"id":566619,"date":"2026-03-26T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566619\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:46:10","slug":"misiorowski-brewers-tie-mlb-record-with-20-ks-vs-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566619\/","title":{"rendered":"Misiorowski, Brewers tie MLB record with 20 K’s vs. White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bradford DoolittleMar 27, 2026, 10:14 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>MLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com
\nFormer NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com
\nBeen with ESPN since 2013<\/p>\n

Multiple Authors<\/p>\n

MILWAUKEE — In an era of strikeout inflation, it’s hard for whiff totals to stand out anymore, but what Brewers<\/a> starter Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> and his bullpen cohorts did on Opening Day would be an eye-opener in any era.<\/p>\n

After allowing a leadoff homer to the White Sox<\/a>‘s Chase Meidroth<\/a> — the first Opening Day leadoff homer in Chicago’s long history — Misiorowski and four Milwaukee relievers buried the ChiSox in an avalanche of 20 strikeouts, leading a 14-2 Brewers rout<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

By the time Misiorowski departed after five innings, that home run was the only tally he’d allowed and he’d rung up 11 strikeouts — three more than any Brewers pitcher before him had ever racked up on Opening Day.<\/p>\n

Guess the homer didn’t rattle him.<\/p>\n

“Opening days are wild,” Misiorowski said. “There’s a lot of stuff going on, giant flag through the outfield. So it’s cool to see, but there’s a lot of emotion, trying to figure it out. Giving up the home run sucks, but the guy got to it. So, oh, well, move on.”<\/p>\n

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Misiorowski’s electric, triple-digit fastball put him on the map when he reached the major leagues last season, earning so much acclaim that he was selected to the National League All-Star team despite having just five career starts under his belt. He wasn’t hitting 100 miles per hour much on Opening Day — it’s too early in the season for that — but his stuff was good enough to induce 24 swing-and-misses by Chicago hitters.<\/p>\n

“A lot of [vertical],” Misiorowski said. “It was working today.”<\/p>\n

The game was largely out of hand when Misiorowski departed, but Andy Ashby, Grant Anderson<\/a>, DL Hall<\/a> and Jake Woodford kept the strikeouts coming — nine more over the last four innings. Hall and Woodford both struck out the side in their lone frames.<\/p>\n

When Woodford struck out Chicago pinch-hitter Derek Hill<\/a> to end it, that gave the Brewers a nice, round 20. That set a new franchise mark and tied the MLB record for the most team strikeouts in a nine-inning game. It’s the first time a team has recorded that many in nine innings on Opening Day.<\/p>\n

Not a bad start. The strikeouts came so fast and furious that most of the assembled media during game were unaware that the Brewers had tied such a lofty mark. Then manager Pat Murphy surmised as much after inquiring what the MLB record was.<\/p>\n

“I don’t look at it as historic in terms of how [Misiorowski] threw the ball,” Murphy said. “I think he did some really good things, and he matured, which we’re hoping for. I think that’s the thing to get excited about.”<\/p>\n

Ten teams had struck out 20 batters in a nine-inning game, according to the Brewers. The last was the Mets, who did it against Pittsburgh on Sept. 18, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford DoolittleMar 27, 2026, 10:14 AM CloseMLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-566619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}