{"id":920331,"date":"2026-10-04T13:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920331\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:36:37","slug":"brewers-misiorowski-throws-fastest-tracked-pitch-in-mlb-post-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920331\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers’ Misiorowski throws fastest tracked pitch in MLB post-season"},"content":{"rendered":"

But the Brewers’ bullpen prevented the San Diego Padres<\/a> from capitalizing on his early exit.<\/p>\n

Misiorowski lasted just four innings because the Padres continually fouled off his pitches in Game 1 of their NL Division Series on Saturday night. The Brewers still won 3-2 after five relievers combined to pitch five scoreless innings \u2014 with an assist from the American Family Field roof.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, not the way I wanted it to go,\u201d Misiorowski said. \u201cI would have liked to go a little deeper for our bullpen. The job still got done. We still got a W at the end of the day.”<\/p>\n

Misiorowski\u2019s presence is a major reason why the Brewers believe they have a legitimate shot at winning their first World Series title. The Brewers have home-field advantage throughout the post-season after winning a franchise-record 103 games during the regular season.<\/p>\n

In his first full season in the big leagues, Misiorowski posted a 1.80 ERA, struck out 252 batters and limited hitters to a .157 batting average to lead the majors in all three categories. The only other pitchers since 1950 to finish a season atop all three of those categories were Sandy Koufax in 1965, J.R. Richard in 1979 and Mike Scott in 1986, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n

Misiorowski\u2019s 1,115 pitches of 100 m.p.h. or more were the most in a season during the tracking era, shattering the prior mark of 673 by Jordan Hicks in 2018.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, he started Saturday’s game by throwing a 104.8 m.p.h. strike to Fernando Tatis Jr. \u2014 the fastest post-season pitch since tracking began in 2008.<\/p>\n

His next delivery to Tatis was 104.6 m.p.h., the second-fastest of the tracking era.<\/p>\n

But the Padres hung tough against the NL Cy Young Award favourite by fouling off 30 of his 88 pitches \u2014 31 if you count Xander Bogaerts’ popup that was caught in foul territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just wanted to compete in the box, and the guys competed really well,\u201d Padres manager Craig Stammen said. \u201cTo limit him to only four innings was a job well done by our offence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Misiorowski\u2019s four-inning stint matched the average length of his three post-season relief appearances during the Brewers\u2019 run to the National League Championship Series last year, when he posted a 1.50 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 12 playoff innings.<\/p>\n

San Diego took a 2-0 lead by scoring a pair of runs off Misiorowski in the second inning, which marked a giant step forward from the only other time the Padres faced him.<\/p>\n

Misiorowski struck out 10 and allowed four hits in seven shutout innings against them on May 13, though San Diego rallied to win that game 3-1 on Gavin Sheets\u2019 three-run homer off Abner Uribe with two outs in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Bogaerts, Ethan Salas and Luis Campusano hit consecutive one-out singles, with Campusano\u2019s base hit to right field driving in Bogaerts. Jake Cronenworth then hit a broken-bat grounder, and first baseman Jake Bauers was unable to throw out Salas at the plate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose guys had an approach and they stuck to it,\u201d said Misiorowski, who struck out six and allowed four hits and one walk. \u201cThey did their job, and I had to find a way to battle back.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Diego could have done even more damage in the second inning, but Manny Machado grounded out to leave the bases loaded. That set the tone on a night when the Padres left 12 men on base and went 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

The Padres couldn’t get any runs across against Antonio Senzatela, Aaron Ashby, Uribe, DL Hall and Trevor Megill. With a runner on first and one out in the ninth, Ty France hit a long drive off Megill that might have gone over the left-field wall if it hadn’t hit a cable<\/a> on the stadium’s roof and then landed in left fielder Jackson Chourio’s glove for a very loud second out.<\/p>\n

Misiorowski expressed his gratitude toward the bullpen after the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the time of year when you’ve got to get these wins,\u201d Misiorowski said. \u201cI didn’t make anything work, and the boys helped me out and got me out of the situation that I wasn’t happy with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Brewers’ bullpen prevented the San Diego Padres from capitalizing on his early exit. Misiorowski lasted just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-920331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}