Milwaukee Brewers' 11-game winning streak snapped in Seattle by Mariners

SEATTLE – The Miz didn’t last. The offense couldn’t deliver.

The free burgers, oh so tantalizingly close, will have to wait for another day.

Indeed, it was a convergence of all bad things for the hottest team in the major leagues at T-Mobile Park, where the juggernaut Milwaukee Brewers were finally upended by a Seattle Mariners team that did just enough to sneak past them, 1-0, on Tuesday night, July 22 and snap their 11-game winning streak.

“This loss feels the same as all the others,” said manager Pat Murphy, whose team dropped to 60-41 and is now tied with the Chicago Cubs atop the Central Division standings.

“That’s 41 of them now, and they feel exactly the same – awful.”

BOX SCORE: Mariners 1, Brewers 0

Rookie phenom Jacob Misiorowski was pulled after only 3 ⅔ innings and 64 pitches as part of Milwaukee’s plan going into the game. Two pitchers later it was Nick Mears who made the game’s most costly pitch, which the game’s home-run leader, Cal Raleigh, did his thing to for the game’s lone tally in the sixth.

Meanwhile Misiorowski’s counterpart, Logan Gilbert, dominated to the tune of 10 strikeouts. All told, the Brewers tied their season low for hits with two in being shut out for the ninth time and first since June 8.

Lots of futile swings on both sides early

Gilbert struck all three Brewers batters he faced in the first inning, and Misiorowski fanned a pair before winning a 10-pitch battle with Raleigh that ended in a flyout to center.

“I was having fun with it,” Misiorowski said of his first career matchup against ‘The Big Dumper.’ “I was trying to throw everything to him. It’s always fun whenever guys like that have a battle like that with you. I think it’s awesome.

“It’s like, ‘OK, now I’m ready. I just got warmed up. Let’s go.'”

Total 100-mph pitches for The Miz that frame: 14.

Gilbert made it six straight set down in the second, then Misiorowski responded to a leadoff double by Randy Arozarena by striking out the next three batters to up his total to five.

There was an interesting sequence in which Misiorowski thought he had struck out Dominic Canzone for the third out of the inning and bounded off the mound, only for home-plate umpire Ryan Blakney to call a ball.

The crowd got on Misiorowski, who then struck Canzone out on the next pitch and really made his emotions known as he again bounced off the mound with multiple fist pumps and then a slap of his glove.

“I thought it was there,” Misiorowski said of the pitch he initially left the mound on. “The crowd started getting behind it. They were trying to say something about me trying to walk off the field because I thought it was a strikeout, but it kind of fired me up a little bit.

“I wanted to say other things to the crowd, but you’ve got to keep it PG. I showed it off a little bit. Let it eat. If it’s there, celebrate.”

Short night for The Miz

Misiorowski erased a one-out single in the third with a ground-ball double play, then was greeted in the fourth by a line drive off his left glute courtesy of Julio Rodríguez.

He remained in the game and struck out the next two batters, but after losing a six-pitch battle with Jorge Polanco that ended in a walk Murphy pulled Misiorowski in favor of DL Hall, who induced a groundout to keep it a 0-0 game.

Misiorowski threw only 64 pitches – his fewest since joining the Brewers – and struck out seven.

“You can’t give him that big of a rest (13 days’ rest, aside from one inning in the All-Star Game on July 14) and then let him go out there and make his normal start,” Murphy said. “You’ve got to build up to it a little bit.

“So, we thought somewhere between 55 and 65 pitches and no more than four ups was a good way to get him back into it.

“And it was fine.”

Misiorowski also failed to hit 100 mph once after the first inning, although he did register 99.9 mph twice and at least 99 mph 13 times from the second inning on.

“Electric the first inning,” Murphy said. “And then it came down a little bit. And by the 50th pitch you could see his velo coming down, you could see he hadn’t been out there in a while. So, I was very proud of what he did.

“I mean, this is a young kid who’s had a lot coming at him and didn’t give up anything. I felt like he did a really nice job.”

His catcher, William Conteras, indicated he had no issues with the way Misiorowski threw the ball.

“How many strikeouts? Seven, in three innings?” he said with a smile. “What do you want me to say? It’s nasty. There’s no questioning it.”

Through six starts, Misiorowski is now 4-1 with a 2.45 ERA, WHIP of 0.92 and 40 strikeouts in 29 ⅓ innings. The 40 strikeouts are second-most by a Milwaukee pitcher in his first six starts since Freddy Peralta’s 46 in 2018.

Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh is congratulated by third base coach Kristopher Negrón after hitting a solo homer in the sixth inning for the only run of the game against the Brewers on July 22 at T-Mobile Park.

The Big Dumper unties it

Hall retired the first two batters he faced in the sixth, leading Murphy to go to the righty Mears to face the switch-hitting Raleigh.

Raleigh entered with 22 of his 38 homers from the left side of the plate but with a much higher average (.321) and OPS (1.175) from the right side.

The roll of the dice failed as Raleigh got on top of a 96.1-mph fastball and pulled a homer out to right for his 39th homer and a 1-0 Mariners lead.

“We gave up a home run to the best home-run hitter in the game,” Murphy said. “He hit a decent pitch. It wasn’t like we threw him a cookie. He hit a decent pitch, and credit goes to him.”

Gilbert had a no-hit bid ended by Jackson Chourio’s leadoff single in the fifth and was pulled after Christian Yelich’s one-out single in the seventh with his strikeout total sitting at 10.

“Oh, (blank),” Contreras said when asked about Gilbert’s stuff. “He was good. Good splitter. Really good.”

Chourio then reached on an error to put two on only for both Isaac Collins and Andrew Vaughn to ground out.

Seattle manager Dan Wilson used four relievers over the final 2 ⅔, but it wasn’t until the ninth against closer Andrés Muñoz that things got interesting.

Contreras drew a leadoff walk, with Chourio earning another following a Yelich strikeout. Collins followed by taking a called third strike and Vaughn bounced out, snapping the Brewers’ winning streak.

“We pitched good, too,” Contreras said. “A 1-0 game, four hits (for Seattle), two hits (for Milwaukee). Good game.

“That’s baseball.”

What time is the Brewers game tonight?

Time: 8:40 p.m. CT.

What channel is the Brewers game on tonight?

TV channel: FanDuel Sports Wisconsin.

Brewers lineupMariners lineup National League pitcher Jacob Misiorowski (32) of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches in the eighth inning during the 2025 MLB All Star Game at Truist Park.

National League pitcher Jacob Misiorowski (32) of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches in the eighth inning during the 2025 MLB All Star Game at Truist Park.

Brewers schedule

Brewers at Mariners, July 23 2:40 p.m. CT: Milwaukee RHP Quinn Priester (8-2, 3.33) vs. Seattle RHP Luis Castillo (7-5, 3.21). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.

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Milwaukee Brewers’ 11-game winning streak snapped in Seattle by Mariners

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