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10/24 00:09 CDT Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski sets World Series velocity record on
his first pitch
Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski sets World Series velocity record on his first pitch
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) --- Jacob Misiorowski stepped on the mound for a World Series
debut like no other.
"I had so much adrenaline built up," he said.
He threw a pitch the likes of which had never been seen in the Fall Classic.
The Miz broke the World Series velocity record with his very first delivery, a
103.5 mph fastball to the Tampa Bay Rays' Yandy Daz that was taken high out of
the strike zone for a ball. He allowed one run over five innings to get his
first postseason win as a starter, helping the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-2
victory in Friday night's opener.
"I don't even know how to tell you how I felt," the 24-year-old right-hander
said a half-hour after the end of a crazy ninth inning, prolonged by a
game-extending video review. "I still don't know how I felt. I feel like I'm
still trying to take everything in and understand what happened."
Misiorowski gave up four hits and one walk, striking out a season-low three.
Aroldis Chapman of the Chicago Cubs had the previous mark for fastest Series
pitch at 103.2 mph in the ninth inning of Game 2 in 2016, an offering that
resulted in a groundout to second by Cleveland's Coco Crisp. The previous high
by a Series starting pitcher since tracking began in 2008 was 101.1 mph by the
New York Mets' Noah Syndergaard to Kansas City's Ben Zobrist that was taken for
a ball in the first inning of Game 3 in 2015.
Miz reached 100 mph with 38 pitches, topping the previous Series high of 24 by
Chapman in Game 5 of 2016. The most by a starting pitcher in the Series had
been six by Tampa Bay's Tyler Glasnow in the 2020 opener against the Los
Angeles Dodgers.
Tampa Bay scored in the fourth when Jonathan Aranda walked, took third on
Junior Caminero's double over center fielder Garrett Mitchell and came around
on Liam Hicks' grounder to first baseman Jake Bauers.
Nearing the end of his first full major league season, Misiorowski has reached
100 mph with 134 of 260 postseason pitches. But his spin rate was down, a sign
of a season in which he has pitched 188 innings --- up from 141 1/3 innings
last year. And he got just seven swings and misses, five on his fastball.
Tampa Bay batters fouled off 20 of his 78 pitches and tipped another.
During the regular season, Misiorowski reached 100 mph with 1,115 pitches,
including a high of 105.5 mph to the Chicago Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong on June
27.
"What we're used to seeing in the regular season was Miz just mow through
people and have two strikeouts an inning. That's unrealistic," Brewers manager
Pat Murphy said. "This is the best team in the American League."
Miz's first pitch was so fast the scoreboard at American Family Field couldn't
keep up, flashing 103.4 mph --- one-tenth of a mile less than it registered on
MLB's Statcast system.
"He's such a special pitcher," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "I felt like for
him to be out of the game at five innings, there's a small win in that."
Misiorowski threw fastballs on 10 of his first 12 pitches, then mixed in more
offspeed stuff. In all he tossed 48 fastballs, 17 cutters, seven sliders and
six curveballs.
Miz finished with 30 pitches at 101 mph or higher, 11 of 102 mph or more and
three at 103-plus mph.
Warming up in the bullpen, he couldn't take in the introductions before
Milwaukee's first World Series game in 44 years. He thought about how far he
had come, how he was at Double-A Biloxi two years ago.
"It was crazy," he said. "It's everything I dreamed of."
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