Brewers Fans Treated to High-Octane Display Against NL Leaders

Coming off of a series win in Miami this last weekend, the Milwaukee Brewers returned home to start one of their biggest tests of the entire season: a three-game series against the NL-leading Los Angeles Dodgers.

Things started off as well as they could on Monday. In a matchup of 2025 All-Stars in Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta and LA’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto, it was all Brewers as they knocked the Dodger starter out in less than an inning and rode their ace on the way to an easy 9-1 win.

Baseball lovers were treated to another great pitching matchup on Tuesday. For the Dodgers, it was future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw. Matching up against him was stud Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski.

The Brewers had reason to rejoice once again. Though the offense wasn’t as dominant as the night before, they got to Kershaw just enough to eventual pull out a 3-1 victory and secure a series win.

The Dodgers, on the other hand, might have nightmares after their experience at the plate against Milwaukee pitching.

Misiorowski led a high-octane Brewers pitching display against the Dodgers on Tuesday night.

Strangely enough, pretty much the only good news for Los Angeles came on the very first matchup of the game. After starting the at bat 0-2, Misiorowski gave up a leadoff homer to three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani to give the Dodgers their only run of the game.

Then it was time to dominate.

Misiorowski would go on to strike out the next five Dodger batters. Later he would get revenge on Ohtani with a strikeout of him as well. When all was said and done, he would set a new career high with 12 strikeouts over six innings with just four hits and a walk.

Among his dominance, Misiorowski induced 21 swings and misses, most by a Brewers pitcher this season. He also threw and absurd 20 pitches of 100 mph or more on the night.

After six innings, the Dodgers might have thought that they were finally off the hook. But boy were they wrong.

Up next for the Brewers was Jared Koenig, who is second on the team in appearances with 41. He came in and put up a 1-2-3 inning, throwing three pitches of at least 99 mph and getting one swinging strike.

After that, it was Abner Uribe, the team leader with 43 appearances and the NL leader with 26 holds, for the eighth. He only maxed out at 98.7 mph, but put up his own 1-2-3 inning, punctuated by a strikeout of a different former MVP in Mookie Betts.

The cherry on top for the night was the appearance by Trevor Megill, who is second in the NL in saves with 21. He would unleash three pitches over 100 mph in one final 1-2-3 inning while striking out two, including, you guessed it, a strikeout of a former MVP in Freddie Freeman.

Megill’s gas punctuated the type of pitching night that hasn’t often been seen in the majors. In fact, according to Curt Hogg, the insane velocity put up by the quartet of Brewers pitchers on Tuesday was a first in the pitch tracking era.

Milwaukee’s ability to churn out talented pitcher after talented pitcher, whether through homegrown developing or reclamation projects, has been well-known for a while now. Tuesday’s game was another example of exactly that.

The Brewers will look to sweep a series against the Dodgers for the first time in 11 seasons on Wednesday. If they can pull it off, odds are it’ll be because of another classically strong pitching performance.