Jun 25, 2025 3 min read

By Rich Rovito

Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Making his third major league start, Jacob Misiorowski threw five shutout innings and the Milwaukee Brewers earned a 4-2 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates and Paul Skenes on Wednesday.

Misiorowski (3-0) allowed two hits, walked two and struck out eight and threw 74 pitches and lowered his ERA to 1.13 for the Brewers, who took two of three in the series and climbed a season-high nine games over .500.

Misiorowski, 23, entered the game having given up one hit and two runs in 11 innings over his first two outings since being promoted from Triple-A Nashville on June 12.

Skenes, also 23 and the reigning NL Rookie of the Year and a starter in the 2024 All-Star Game, allowed all four runs in the second inning. Skenes (4-7) gave up four hits with two walks and four strikeouts and threw 78 pitches for the Pirates in four innings, his shortest outing of the season.

The Brewers sent nine batters to the plate in the second inning. After loading the bases with no outs, Milwaukee scored its first run on Joey Ortiz’s ground out dribbler to Skenes. Eric Haase followed with a bloop double to drive in another. The Brewers extended the lead when Sal Frelick grounded into a fielder’s choice, while Christian Yelich capped the scoring with an RBI single.

According to Sportradar, Misiorowski averaged 99.5 mph and Skenes averaged 98.5 on their fastballs. That represented the highest combined fastball velocity by two starting pitchers in the same game since at least 2009.

Misiorowski reached at least 100 mph on 19 of his 74 pitches — reaching a career-best peak of 102.4 — and Skenes got to 100 mph once out of 78 pitches. Since at least 2009, this marked the most combined 100-mph pitches by opposing starters for any game in which both reached that threshold at least once.

There have been 19 times since 2000 in which a single pitcher has thrown at least 20 pitches of at least 100 mph, but in none of those instances did the opposing starter also reach 100 mph.

Trevor Megill earned his 18th save for the Brewers.

Oneil Cruz, who was in the starting lineup for the Pirates after being removed from Tuesday night’s game for failing to run out a double play grounder, reached on a two-base error in the seventh and scored on Tommy Pham’s single. Spencer Horwitz’s double scored the other run for the Pirates in the eighth.

Key moment

The Pirates threatened in the fourth when Bryan Reynolds led off with a single for the first hit off Misiorowski and Horwitz followed with a walk. But Misiorowski got Nick Gonzales to ground into a double play and then struck out Cruz to end the inning.

Key stat

Skenes gave up four hits, four runs and a walk, in a 37-pitch second inning.

Up next

Mitch Keller (1-10, 4.02 ERA) will start Friday’s series opener vs. the Mets in Pittsburgh. Left-hander José Quintana (5-2, 2.98) will start for the Brewers at home on Friday in the first of a three-game series against the Rockies.