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ESPN News Services
Jun 25, 2025, 05:24 PM ET
Jacob Misiorowski and Paul Skenes needed less than 80 pitches each to acceptable caller standards for velocity successful the archetypal matchup betwixt these 23-year-old flamethrowers.
Misiorowski struck retired 8 and allowed 2 hits and 2 walks successful 5 shutout innings arsenic his Milwaukee Brewers defeated Skenes' Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 connected Wednesday.
Skenes lasted conscionable 4 innings -- matching the second-shortest outing of his vocation -- portion striking retired 4 and allowing 4 runs, 4 hits and 2 walks. All 4 runs came successful the 2nd inning arsenic the Brewers went done each 9 batters.
After Isaac Collins drew a leadoff walk, Brice Turang and Caleb Durbin each followed with a azygous to halfway tract to load the bases with cipher out. Collins scored connected Joey Ortiz's groundout on the first-base line, and Eric Haase doubled to bring successful Turang. Sal Frelick connected connected a splitter that went to Pirates 2nd baseman Nick Gonzales, but an overthrow to catcher Henry Davis astatine the sheet allowed Durbin to travel astir and score. Christian Yelich accrued the pb to 4 runs with a azygous to near tract that brought successful Haase.
It was lone the 3rd clip successful 40 vocation starts that Skenes has fixed up arsenic galore arsenic 4 runs and snapped a agelong of 9 consecutive starts successful which helium had allowed 2 runs oregon fewer. Skenes besides had not allowed a tally successful the archetypal 2 innings of a crippled since Aug. 28, 2024.
According to Sportradar, Misiorowski averaged 99.5 mph and Skenes averaged 98.5 connected their fastballs. That represented the highest combined fastball velocity by 2 starting pitchers successful the aforesaid crippled since astatine slightest 2009.
Misiorowski reached astatine slightest 100 mph connected 19 of his 74 pitches -- reaching a vocation precocious of 102.4, the fastest strikeout transportation for a Brewer successful the transportation tracking epoch (since 2008), according to ESPN Research -- and Skenes got to 100 mph erstwhile retired of 78 pitches. Since astatine slightest 2009, this marked the astir combined 100 mph pitches by opposing starters for immoderate crippled successful which some reached that threshold astatine slightest once.
There person been 19 times since 2000 successful which a azygous pitcher has thrown astatine slightest 20 pitches of astatine slightest 100 mph, but successful nary of those instances did the opposing starter besides scope 100 mph.
Through his archetypal 3 vocation starts, Misiorowski owns a 3-0 grounds and 1.13 ERA. He has struck retired 19 portion allowing lone 3 hits and 7 walks implicit 16 innings. He is the archetypal pitcher since 1900 with arsenic galore oregon much wins arsenic hits allowed implicit his archetypal 3 large league appearances (minimum 15 innings pitched), according to ESPN Research.
The show accrued Skenes' vocation ERA from 1.91 to 2.03 and dropped his grounds this play to 4-7.
Reliever Trevor Megill threw a cleanable ninth for his 18th prevention of the play arsenic Milwaukee has won six of its past 7 games.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
