CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski had a rare off night on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski surrendered five runs and five hits in four innings against the Chicago Cubs. The 6-foot-7 right-hander struck out five and walked four in his 26th start this season and 40th of his career.<\/p>\n
The five earned runs and four walks matched Misiorowski\u2019s career highs. He surrendered three earned runs or fewer in his first 25 starts this year.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Misiorowski is the front-runner for the NL Cy Young Award in his second big league season. His ERA rose to 1.97, which still leads the majors. He also has an MLB-best 227 strikeouts in 155 innings.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski’s trouble began in the first inning. He issued a leadoff walk to Pete Crow-Armstrong and surrendered a two-run homer by Alex Bregman with one out.<\/p>\n
The Cubs added three more in the second. Tyrone Taylor hit an RBI single before Misiorowski walked Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki, loading the bases. One batter later, Bregman grounded a two-run single up the middle for a 5-3 lead in hot, muggy conditions at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski shut out the Cubs in his last two innings, and the NL Central-leading Brewers had a 6-5 advantage when he departed.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski had won his last three starts coming into the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski had a rare off night on Wednesday. Misiorowski surrendered five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[72,5,97492,138,24,4245,161,11714,4,9501,35,9496,15187,82744,105,1444],"class_list":["post-795331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alex-bregman","tag-baseball","tag-brewers-jacob-misiorowski","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-tyrone-taylor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117204843480411060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}