Mizery Bizness: Brewers 6, Phillies 0

Jacob Misiorowski pitched the game of his life, allowing one hit and facing the minimum in his first career complete game shutout as the Milwaukee Brewers (42-25) embarrassed the Philadelphia Phillies (37-32) to the tune of a 6-0 drubbing in the opening game of the weekend series at American Family Field.

Misiorowski faced 27 hitters, allowing one single to Kyle Schwarber in the fourth inning that was erased two batters later as Bryce Harper grounded into a double play to end the inning.

Don Mattingly tried to be creative in turning things around for his struggling rookie starter, Andrew Painter, by opening the game with lefty, Tanner Banks, to allow Painter to avoid dangerous lefties, Christian Yelich and Brice Turang, on the first go-round. Banks allowed a leadoff walk to Yelich and struck out the next two batters before William Contreras doubled home Yelich for the game’s first run.

Painter took the bulk of the game from there, going five innings, and his struggles continued as he allowed five runs on five hits and three walks, culminating with a three-run home run by Jake Bauers in the bottom of the fifth.

In all honestly, it didn’t matter how well the Phillies pitched tonight. No one was matching Misiorowski’s performance.

“The Miz” set a major league record for the fastest pitch thrown by a starting pitcher, set a career high in strikeouts, and became the first pitcher since Gary Waslewski in 1969 to one-hit the Phillies and face the minimum in a complete game shutout. He was the first starter to strike out 15 Phillies since Max Scherzer in 2018.

Misiorowski improved to 8-2 with a 1.34 ERA and a 0.74 WHIP to entrench himself in the historically competitive race for the National League Cy Young Award along with Cristopher Sanchez and Shohei Ohtani, to name a few.

Aaron Nola is slated to face Shane Drohan in the middle game of the series tomorrow night.