The Nationwide League Central has one other younger pitching phenom, and it is Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski. In simply his second main league begin on Friday night time, Misiorowski threw six good innings earlier than lastly strolling a batter after which permitting a two-run residence run to Matt Wallner within the seventh inning.
At that time, Misiorowski was eliminated, however he nonetheless managed to get the win in Milwaukee’s 17-6 victory.
Nevertheless it wasn’t simply the truth that he went six good innings in his second Main League begin that stood out. It was the best way he did it, in addition to the very fact he has been almost unhittable via his first two begins.
Nearly actually.
In his huge league debut towards the St. Louis Cardinals on June 12, he threw 5 no-hit innings earlier than being eliminated resulting from pitch-count causes.
He adopted that up by throwing six good innings on Friday.
Wallner’s residence run ended a streak of 11 consecutive no-hit innings to open his profession. That’s the longest stretch of no-hit innings to start a profession for a beginning pitcher within the growth period (since 1961).
He’s doing it with completely filthy stuff, together with a 100-plus mph fastball that he unleashed at an unprecedented charge on Friday night time.
Of his 86 pitches on Friday, a whopping 29 of them topped 100 mph.
If that appears like so much, it is as a result of it’s. In actual fact, it is greater than most pitchers will ever throw of their profession.
Within the Statcast period, there have been solely 23 pitchers who’ve ever thrown greater than 29 100 mph pitches of their complete careers. Misiorowski did that in a single sport.
