Overview
- In Game 1 of the NLDS on Saturday night Jacob Misiorowski opened with a 104.8 mph four-seam fastball that Statcast logged as the fastest pitch in postseason history.
- Misiorowski followed with a 104.6 mph pitch and finished with four innings pitched, six strikeouts, one walk and two earned runs before being removed after 88 pitches.
- Statcast provided the official readings while the TV broadcast rounded the first pitch to 105 mph, and Misiorowski produced multiple 100+ mph pitches in the opening inning.
- The start reaffirmed a season in which Misiorowski made 30 starts, went 16–5 with a 1.80 ERA and struck out 252 batters, a performance that made him the leading candidate for the NL Cy Young.
- The display of sustained elite velocity but a limited, 88-pitch outing sharpens the preexisting debate over innings and pitch-count limits and leaves Milwaukee with short-term decisions about using him in this postseason.