In today’s game, seeing 100 mph on a radar gun doesn’t really shock anyone anymore. Relievers come in, and if you don't see triple digits, you feel like it's unusual.

Jacob Misiorowski doesn’t really fit that mold. He’s not just flashing that kind of velocity in short bursts — he’s carrying it through a full start and building everything around it like it’s just another tool in the toolbox.

The Rockies got the full experience on Sunday. Misiorowski opened the game by striking out the first seven hitters he faced, sat down the first 14 in order, and finished with 12 strikeouts, one hit allowed, and no walks over five innings in Milwaukee’s 11-2 win. Out of his 83 pitches, 66 were four-seam fastballs at 100 mph or higher.

On paper, it looks overwhelming. In real time, though, Misiorowski made it feel almost routine.

The Fastball Stopped Feeling Like A Trick

Colorado knew exactly what was coming, and honestly, so did Misiorowski and Gary Sánchez behind the plate. There wasn’t any mystery to it. It was just a matter of whether anyone could actually do anything about it. Spoiler: they couldn’t.

From the jump, the fastball was just different. It never even dipped below 102.9 mph in the first inning, which already feels unfair, and then he just kept stacking innings on top of it. He struck out the side in each of the first two, touched 104.7 at one point, and by the time you looked up he had already thrown 54 pitches over 102 mph. That’s not a typo. That’s just what the day was. By the end of the fourth inning, 11 of the 12 hitters he’d faced had been struck out.

At some point it stopped being about mixing anything up. Misiorowski came in throwing his four-seamer about 62.8 percent of the time this season, but against Colorado that number jumped close to 80 percent. And it wasn’t really some pre-planned “we’re going to overpower them” strategy either. It was more like the Rockies kept proving, pitch after pitch, that they just weren’t on it. When that’s the case, you don’t really need to get fancy. You just keep throwing gas until someone forces you to do something else.

He also blew past his own personal record for 100-mph pitches in a game, which used to sit at 58.

But the part that actually stood out wasn’t just the radar gun stuff. It was how controlled it all was. He ended up with 59 strikes, didn’t walk anybody, and kept living up in the zone in a way hitters just couldn’t square up. Brewers manager Pat Murphy has talked a lot about how everything works together for him — his extension, his release point, the way he can actually command the top of the zone instead of just throwing hard and hoping. At 6-foot-7, he’s already releasing the ball so close to the plate that it feels like hitters are reacting late no matter what. So when it’s 103 mph up in the zone, there’s just not a lot of time to adjust.

Eventually, though, someone did get him. Cole Carrigg turned on a 101.9-mph fastball and sent it the other way for a home run with two outs in the fifth, which ended the perfect game, the no-hitter, and the shutout all at once.

Big-league hitters are still big-league hitters. If they know it’s coming, they can catch up to just about anything eventually. Velocity gives you some room to work with, but it doesn’t erase the need for location. The fifth inning kind of showed that in real time — he needed 30 pitches to get through it after cruising on 53 pitches through the first four. That was enough for Murphy, who went ahead and called it a day there.

The Brewers Need This Version In October

There was a time when Misiorowski’s future looked a lot more like a late-inning bullpen arm than a front-line starter. Nobody ever really doubted the stuff — that part has always been obvious. The real question was whether a 6-foot-7 pitcher throwing that hard could actually repeat his delivery, throw enough strikes, and hold up long enough physically to consistently give you six or seven innings without things falling apart.

That question feels pretty outdated now. Misiorowski has answered it on the bump. His walk rate has dropped from 11 percent last season to 6.1 percent this year, and his strikeout rate has jumped all the way up to 40.6 percent. And it’s not just the fastball doing the damage. Hitters are hitting just .085 against his cutter and .105 against his curveball. On the year, he’s sitting at a 1.57 ERA, a .149 opponent batting average, and 185 strikeouts in 120 innings.

And Sunday honestly wasn’t even the most ridiculous version of him we’ve seen. Back in June, he threw a 95-pitch complete-game shutout against Philadelphia with 15 strikeouts and only one hit allowed. That’s the thing with him right now — the highlight keeps getting louder, but underneath it, the actual starter part of his game keeps getting more real and more complete.

The Brewers still have to be smart with all of this, though. They’ve already had to manage him carefully, including a scratch right before the All-Star break because of arm fatigue. He’s already up to 120 innings this year after throwing 141 1/3 across the minors, majors, and postseason last season. So it’s not about pushing him to max out every start in July. It’s about making sure he’s still strong and in one piece when the games actually matter in September and October.

Because when you look around the league and see contenders hunting for a starter who can swing a playoff series, Milwaukee already has that guy sitting right there. The focus now isn’t finding more from him — it’s making sure they don’t accidentally take too much.

All stats courtesy of MLB.com.

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