Brewers Learned Valuable Jacob Misiorowski Lesson in Second Start of Season Wednesday afternoon was not Jacob Misiorowski’s best performance by any means. In a way, that was almost more encouraging than if it had been. Misiorowski took the mound in the Brewers’ series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, and his afternoon was workmanlike. He didn’t dominate the Rays, but he pitched more than well enough to win the game, and that’s what Milwaukee wound up doing after a runaway six-run eighth inning. For a six-inning, two-earned-run performance, Misiorowski showed quite a bit of mettle, and that has to feel good for the Brewers as they look for the 24-year-old to carry more of the rotation load than he did in year one. Misiorowski came out of the gates firing, striking out four batters in his first two innings. But he ran into trouble in the third inning, allowing two runs on a hit batsman and a Yandy Daz home run, and for a lot of pitchers, an inning like that can be the difference between a bad day and a solid one. At the end of that tiresome third inning, Misiorowski was at 58 pitches already, and it seemed like he was heading for a stereotypical “five and dive” outing that might strain Milwaukee’s excellent bullpen a bit. Instead, he locked in from there and showed the Brewers that he’s not just a pure power pitcher if he needs to eat some innings. In the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, Misiorowski struck out only one batter, but that enabled him to get through those three frames in just 36 pitches. The Brewers handed the game off from there to some of their reliable high-leverage relievers. Aaron Ashby got the win as the Brewers pulled away in the bottom of the eighth.#milwaukee_brewers #tampa_bay_rays #jacob_misiorowski #aaron_ashby #yandy_daz
