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Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws to the plate during the seventh inning of a game against the Angels on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, at Angel Stadium. (Photo by Luiza Moraes\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a shame that when the Padres and Brewers meet three times this week, this galactic showdown won\u2019t happen:<\/p>\n
The Padres send out their pitcher whose fastball looks like a \u201cStar Wars\u201d laser.<\/p>\n
The Brewers answer with their pitcher whose fastball also looks like a \u201cStar Wars\u201d laser.<\/p>\n
Who could forget seeing Mason Miller and Jacob Misiorowski, \u201cThe Reaper\u201d and \u201cThe Miz,\u201d squaring off in the East Village, authoring a supersonic matchup, each catcher opting for an asbestos mitt?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019d be cool,\u201d said Misiorowski, the Brewers\u2019 ace, adding that he enjoyed pitching opposite Pirates flamethrower Paul Skenes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWow,\u201d said former Padres World Series catcher Carlos Hernandez, adding that he\u2019d like to catch each righty\u2019s triple-digit fastballs and wipeout sliders.<\/p>\n
As the home pitcher, Miller would begin this celestial smoke show.<\/p>\n
The Padres closer\u2019s fastball has clocked as fast as 104.5 mph; his fastball averages 101.5 mph, best in the big leagues.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws to the plate during the seventh inning of a game against the Angels on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, at Angel Stadium. (Photo by Luiza Moraes\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
As a starter, \u201cThe Miz\u201d cooks at 100.6 mph, and in a recent game, his first pitch registered 105.5.<\/p>\n
At 67 years old, Brewers manager Pat Murphy has seen a few power pitchers in his day.<\/p>\n
A Miller-Miz duel would be something else, he agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won\u2019t see it\u201d this week, he said, \u201cunless you want me to bring him into relief tonight or tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019d be fine with it.\u00a0Padres hitters might not.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Miz\u201d shut them out in May for seven innings, leading to a Padres defeat in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
Padres buzzkill Craig Stammen didn\u2019t warm to the notion of having Miller start a game just for entertainment\u2019s sake, saying he\u2019ll stick with having baseball\u2019s best closer finish off games, thank you very much.<\/p>\n
In a nod to the Miller-Miz duel\u2019s entertainment value, Stammen did get off a good line.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you not entertained?\u201d the manager hollered, doing a fine Russell Crowe\/Maximus in \u201cGladiator.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller and Misiorowski, for their parts, find entertainment in watching the other pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all appreciate some of the best pitchers in the game, and he\u2019s certainly been that this year,\u201d Miller, 27, said of fellow All-Star Misiorowski, 24. \u201cThe velocity is exciting, but just everything else that he\u2019s doing, the success he\u2019s having \u2014 that\u2019s more what carries the admiration in this game.<\/p>\n
Miller marveled about the 6-foot-7, 201-pounder, who ranks first among qualified big leaguers in ERA (1.76), strikeouts (204), WHIP (0.737) and adjusted ERA (better than the league average by 135%).<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s very blessed, very blessed, for sure,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe should sit back and watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Misiorowski said he loves how Miller attacks hitters.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s coming after guys, pounding the zone, trying to end games quickly,\u201d he said of the 6-5, 200-pounder, who shows a major-best 29 saves and a 0.91 ERA in 49 innings. \u201cWe kind of have the same style, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murphy saw fit to single out Miller\u2019s intangibles.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe seems like an unbelievable cat,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything I hear, from pretty reliable sources, is that he\u2019s just such the right dude and willing to do anything for the team. So, when I hear about guys like that, I pull for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know \u2018Miz,\u2019 and I see the way he\u2019s progressed, the maturity that he\u2019s had, and I pull for him, too, for obvious reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Miller and Misiorowski were to square off, hitters on each team would have to cope with more than pure velocity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of them have really good sliders,\u201d said Padres pitcher Robbie Ray, who won a Cy Young Award five years ago with the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
And because each tall righty lets go of the ball farther down the mound than most big leaguers do, their fastballs arrive even sooner than the velocity would imply.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s release, almost seven feet from the rubber, lands in MLB\u2019s 81st percentile.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski cuts loose nearly a foot farther. At 7.6 feet from the slab, his extension is unsurpassed.<\/p>\n
Even big leaguers are awed by \u201cThe Miz.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he gets down the mound, his foot is almost down by the grass; it\u2019s down by the edge of the dirt,\u201d Ray said. \u201cSo, not only is it 104, it\u2019s coming at you with eight feet of extension. That\u2019s really impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Misiorowski hasn\u2019t pitched in the East Village and won\u2019t pitch here this week.<\/p>\n
The solution here?<\/p>\n
The Padres and Brewers meet here in October.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Miz\u201d starts the game. Stammen has the final say, calling upon \u201cThe Reaper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a shame that when the Padres and Brewers meet three times this week, this galactic showdown won\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,4246,68706,3549,1306,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-993691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-mason-miller","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117074945899590182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}