MLB Network | Craig Coshun REACTS Jacob Misiorowski cruises as Brewers sweep Pirates with 10-2 win

MLB Network | Craig Coshun REACTS Jacob Misiorowski cruises as Brewers sweep Pirates with 10-2 win

I’m floored, Dom. I really am. I I’m floored by what we witnessed today. Uh, and I’m I’m also equally confused on on how this came about because it just seemed I don’t know uh two or three weeks ago, you know, the the word for Murf was, you know, they got to keep track of this kid because he doesn’t have a lot of major league experience and and where his pitch count is and in the innings that he’s been, you know, logging between the minors and the majors and how they’re going to use him, you know, down the stretch. So, so this is all great to see and everything. Obviously, the Brewers are like, if he’s got the potential to be as good as we saw, especially, you know, the last four or five innings today, and they’re just going to let him go, and if he’s if he’s dominating, keep him in the game. Um, well, we got a pretty good indication of that now. Just the fact, Don, that he got so much stronger it seemed, as the game went on, you know, retiring 16 of the last 17. I mean, this is this was big league veteran stuff that we saw out of a heavyhitting pitcher. That’s for sure. When I see Miz and we were watching the game together, Craig, and we see those first two innings after a five nothing start in those first two innings, right, for the Brewers to come back out in the bottom of the second inning and allow a leadoff double. I I’m honestly really proud of him that that that was only one run in that frame. Or even in the first inning, walking the first two batters, visit by Chris Hook, gets two crown balls. Sometimes, you know, every pitcher needs to be reminded every now and then, yes, you have, you know, the power of Zeus in your right hand at times, but hey man, you’ve got seven defenders behind you ready to make a play. and for him to get the clutch double play in the first inning and then even the pop, you know, Picaro got an RBI single on a little blooper that Isaac Collins nearly made a miraculous play to make. So, the point being the fact that Miz had the ability to get swing and miss stuff, which we saw later in the game, but the comfort of saying, “Okay, my stuff’s playing in the zone. as long as I’m hitting corners, there’s not going to be really hard hit balls or damage against me, which is what’s most encouraging to me about this start, not the strikeouts or the length or anything of that. He’s trusting his stuff in the zone again. Yeah, I I think that’s that’s really the whole thing in my opinion is just to listen to a guy like uh Brandon Woodruff after after yesterday’s start uh for as long as he’s been in the league and and all the things that he’s experienced, you know, through a National League championship series uh All-Star games to to listen to a guy that’s been around that long say, you know, I just needed to step back and tell myself to enjoy this game and trust my stuff. And the only way you’re going to enjoy it and succeed is to trust your stuff. And you know, today if we if we saw that, I mean, look, Miz is Miz knows this, but he doesn’t know it every single start on the major league level. Um, and so today a major stepping stone for him just from that, you know, perspective. So, it was great to see uh very very he’s just a smooth operator when when he’s in a groove like we saw him today and can throw just about anything with a high level of success. I think the most important thing from today after that, you know, inospicious start, right, with having back-to-back walks to start the game, which you start to hold your breath, giving, oh my gosh, just gave him a four nothing lead. what is he doing that from then on he didn’t have another walk the rest of the game and he only had two more three ball counts the rest of the game that is getting it back on the rails that’s getting it back on track finally making that adjustment that we’ve talked about so much Craig where when it goes off the rails that can you get it back and we saw him finally click that into gear a couple of times today and furthermore I want to make this point very very very clear if you want to sit here and say oh well It’s the Pirates. Well, what I say to that is if he did anything worse than this, you’d be like, why didn’t he do better? It’s the Pirates. In my opinion, this is just as good of a start as the six strong innings against the Dodgers when he struck out 12 because he faced adversity early and made the adjustment like big leaguers are supposed to do. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you you mentioned the, you know, the rough first inning and getting out of there without giving up a run. Well, the second inning comes along to start things out and Andrew McCutchen leads off with a double, but he goes right after Cruz, strikes him out with a fast ball. Uh gets Bart on a fly ball to left, does give a two out uh base hit for their their run early. uh but you know got out of that inning and then the third inning kicks in and everything started cruising and you know to me what we saw you know the finish as well in that seventh inning um he had that that high heater uh going and I mean velocity-wise because he located it really well against Cruz at at the knees for a called third strike and then Bark comes up and he got him up high and struck him out swinging and then that’s his day. uh he put all the numbers together and um just just really impressive stuff. It seems to me like pitchers don’t always go when the game’s over inning by inning by inning and say this is how this gets broken down and how I’ve learned something and how I’ve gained experience uh like this. This is this is almost a classic example of how how you go about doing that. what we saw today out of him when I see as well in his thing and then we’ll move on a little bit. I want to give some kudos to Danny Jansen here as well is that most curveballs he’s ever thrown in a game, you know, as a big leager, I should say, and it was extremely effective today, too. And we talked about this after that Dodger game where he was using his whole arsenal and he was being a pitcher, not a thrower. This is really the first game in a little while that we’ve seen him tap back into that with the Arsenal. 26 curve balls today. 16 of them were strikes. He even got four swings and misses on that pitch. Two strikeouts on the curve ball today, too. The slider was kind of a secondary pitch. I mean, really on the back burner for him today. Only 16 sliders. He still had command with that pitch as well, but he didn’t get any swings and misses. And I give kudos to Danny Jansen for keying in on that. That they’re looking for pitches away. let’s make him wait even longer with the curveball and locate heaters up and away. And the Pirates had no answer. Yeah, the curveball had kind of disappeared as far as effectiveness goes. And uh clearly, you know, clearly a winner for him here today. And I, you know, it goes back to the to the whole trust thing that we were talking about as well. You just have to be willing um to to throw it. You have to be willing, you know, to get out there and know that you can succeed with this. I think we saw this, you know, Vinnie pointed this out on one of our shows too yesterday with Brandon Woodruff and uh, you know, William Contrarus, you know, throw this slider once. Just throw it once. Trust yourself and throw it once. It’s going to work here. And and it and it did. So, this is, you know, you mentioned uh Jansen and and you know, his help on all of this as well. It’s a it’s a team thing. That’s why they call them battery mates. It’s why, you know, this whole pitching staff is set up so well, you know, from from the dugout and Chris Hook on to the behind the scenes. It’s it’s a trust factor and and at the end of the day though, a guy like Mizroski’s got to go out there and execute and grow with it and he did today. The Brewers are a team that the quote Caleb Durban when they smell blood in the water, they’re like sharks. They’re going to make you pay. They score 10 runs in a game today, Craig, without a home run. Yeah, I was just going to say that they did all this without a home run. And look, I love home runs. Who doesn’t love a home run? Especially when it’s, you know, at a key point in the game. But if you’re going to score 10 runs and outscore your opponent by eight, there’s nothing better than how we saw it today to get 10 runs on 14 hits to start the game out, you know, with the first, what do we have? base hit, base hit, walk, double, base hit, you know, to to really get it going. And then third inning, very similar as well. Just, you know, nickel and dime them a little bit and have some fun with it and pass the baton. I mean, we say it a 100 times, but it’s just entertaining baseball. And this is this is why the Brewers are going to be really difficult in the postseason. Dom, you and I and Vin were talking about this earlier in the day. Who who fears the Brewers? Who do the Brewers fear? What kind of lineups are we talking about? What kind of pitching staffs? This is this is tough to plan against if you’re the opposing pitcher in the postseason. How do you get how do you get nine guys out when one guy can get it going? And it’s not just keeping somebody from hitting a home run or sending it to the gap. this whole woodpecker mentality is it’s gonna be it’s going to be painful in the postseason I predict because it’s been painful most of this year and when I look at the Brewers and the National Prognosticators who don’t watch the Brewers on a daily basis look at the season numbers and I understand why we use the full season numbers but this team in May versus the team that we saw today is completely different. So, I mean, I’m just going to go to the trade deadline here. And we talk about how this team scores runs, what makes their offense so dynamic. They’ve scored the most runs in baseball since the trade deadline. They have hit the seventh most home runs in baseball since the trade deadline. They have more home runs since the deadline in more than the following playoff teams. the Dodgers, the Tigers, the Astros, the Cubs, the Red Sox. I don’t hear a word about a lack of slug on those teams. I yet to only hear it about the Brewers, and they conveniently leave out games like today, like you’re talking about, Craig, where, yes, home runs are important in the postseason. I’m not doubting that in the slightest, but ignoring the fact that the Brewers have multiple guys that can hit homers that weren’t hitting homers in May that are now doing it for the crew and they have the Woodpecker offense makes them a legitimate pennant contender, right? And and really, you just have to go back, you know, a few years and and you say, why haven’t the Brewers, you know, in the last several years had the the success in winning in the postseason? this a team the team that we’re talking about today is nothing like the teams you know even going back to last year in the last couple of years they they relied on slug more than than this team has and and especially home runs and if you can as an opponent pitching staff if you can shut that down these series are short especially the opening ones that they they were involved in but I don’t I don’t think that’s going to be the case now and through all of this too this time period that you’re talking about um this team has basically played 500 baseball since their 14game winning streak and yet they still have a 7 and 1/2 game lead over the Cubs. They still have a 5 1/2 game lead over the Phillies for the best record in the National League and they’re going to be about 6 and 1/2 games up on on Detroit and Toronto as well for home field advantage in the World Series. I mean, think about that. So during this two weeks or whatever it’s been three weeks that they have played 500 baseball, nobody else has been able to gain any ground on them. So it just goes to show you how dangerous this team can be. I think the Brewers are tapping into their potential because again, we see this every now and then, Craig, where oh my gosh, Sunday lineup, look at this lineup. They scored 10 runs against a top prospect who’s, you know, a lot of people are really excited about Bubba Chandler. I think he’s going to be really good. But today he learned the difference between AAA and the big leagues. These guys have seen 98. It’s no big deal. That’s why they kept knocking him around. Just take the singles and, you know, show me what else you got. And I thought that’s what was the difference of today’s game. A guy making his first big league start. He’s made a couple of bullpin appearances in Bubba Chandler against a guy making his 12th big league start. Understanding, whoa, I can’t just get by with the Heater here at this biggest level. And that’s why the Brewers offense, people want to say, oh, it’s a Pirates. Oh, look at this the division. off like they’re doing it against so many great pitchers. They’ve done it against Yoshino Yamamoto who nearly no hit the Orioles yesterday. They’ve done it against glass now. They’ve done it against great great pitching all season long and then they do it against the next flavor on the block and it’s no big deal. The Brewers are a club that understand they are best by the sum of their parts. And even in a weekend they didn’t have Christian Yelich touch the field. They never had the game in doubt. They never trailed this weekend. Yeah, that that is pretty amazing. They hardly gave up any runs. They scored a lot of runs. You mentioned Yelich being out. Look what Jake Bowers did in the series. He had two RBI’s in each game. Totaled six. Six for 12 for him. All for Christian Yelich’s absence. What more could have Christian Yelich had done in a three-game series? You know what I’m saying? So, yeah, this is something. and and just the approach and and knowing how this team does have a lot of young, inexperienced guys in that lineup, it it just doesn’t really show that way so much anymore. It just this lineup just has the right approach, um the right game plan and and uh what we saw today against this this young kid who’s going to be good. I mean, we all see he’s got the stuff. Um they did they just did a great job. You just I just love the approach of how they’re going against some of these top pitchers that you’re mentioning.

MLB Network | Craig Coshun REACTS Jacob Misiorowski cruises as Brewers sweep Pirates with 10-2 win

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