The veteran and the rookie make history in Brewers' Friday night rout of Twins

Last night might have just been the most enjoyable game of Milwaukee Brewers baseball in the history of the franchise. It had it all: a rookie sensation carrying a perfect game into the seventh inning, a veteran leader tying the franchise record for RBIs in a single game, and a momentous victory that propelled the team to their best record of the 2025 season up to this point. Not only that, but the Crew handed Minnesota Twins' ace Joe Ryan his third loss of the season, while holding clear starting pitching advantages for the rest of the weekend. Oh, and they picked up a game on the Chicago Cubs, who lost to the Seattle Mariners yesterday afternoon. Simply put, it was a great night to be a Brewers fan.

The contest started as a good old-fashioned pitchers’ duel, between the aforementioned Ryan and the Brewers' rookie phenom Jacob Misiorowski. "Miz" was making just his second career MLB start, which was supposed to occur on Thursday, before Chicago weather got in the way. In his first start, Misiorowski tossed five no-hit innings against the St. Louis Cardinals, but left the game early in a very precautionary move from the Brewers coaching staff, after Miz rolled his ankle on the mound.

On seven days’ rest, Misiorowski came out firing last night. In the first frame, after getting the Twins' star, Byron Buxton, to ground out to third base, Misiorowski struck out both Matt Wallner and Willi Castro, the former on an 88 mph curveball, and the latter on a 96 mph slider that forced an awkward swing from the seven-year veteran and left him on the ground in a state of awe. Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel confirmed that Misiorowski's mid-90s cutting pitch is in fact one of the fastest sliders ever seen and not a cutter as Statcast's pitch tracking technology initially believed.

The next five innings were much of the same for Misiorowski: lots of awkward swings from established big-league hitters, with no one successfully reaching base. You read that right — in just his second MLB start, Jacob Misiorowski was perfect through six innings. Pair that with his five no-hit innings last week, and you get numerous broken records and a Brewers fan base that simply can't believe its eyes.

Not only did Misiorowski set a new franchise record for the most consecutive no-hit innings to start a career, as the graphic above explains, but he also set a new league-wide benchmark for the longest hitless streak to start a career since 1900, as explained by the Brewers senior director of media relations, Mike Vassallo, on the social media platform X.

On top of not surrendering a hit for more than a full nine innings to start his MLB career, Miz continues to set new records with his overpowering velocity. He topped out at 102.1 mph last night and already ranks seventh in the history of MLB for the most 101+ mph pitches thrown, as pointed out by J.J. Cooper of Baseball America.

After a long time spent in the dugout between the sixth and seventh innings, due to the Brewers’ offensive explosion (more on that later), Miz returned to the game still perfect and with just nine outs to get. However, the first batter he faced, Buxton, drew a walk, ending Miz's perfect game bid, and the following batter, Wallner, slugged a two-run HR to right, ending his no-hit and shutout bid. With an 8-2 lead and a rising pitch count, Pat Murphy came out to the mound to get his rookie sensation, who walked off to a standing ovation from the Milwaukee faithful who made the trip out to the Twin Cities.

When the Brewers closed the door on the win three innings later, Misiorowski was awarded the win, producing what might be the most impressive record of all: through two starts, Miz has more wins than hits allowed. As researched by OptaSTATS and reported on X, that makes Miz the "only MLB pitcher in the modern era to have more wins (2) than hits allowed (1) over his first 2 career starts."

As Misiorowski shined, Christian Yelich had a record-breaking night of his own

It was a night for broken records on both sides of the ball for the Brewers, who ended up winning by a score of 17-6 after position players took the mound for both teams in the ninth inning. Despite going hitless through the first four innings, the Brewers did hold a 1-0 lead when the fifth inning began thanks to a walk from Jackson Chourio (he had three in last night's game), a stolen base, an advancement to third on a ground ball to the pitcher, and a sacrifice fly from William Contreras. For a second, it looked like the Brewers were going to win 1-0 with neither team recording a hit, but that all changed in the top of the sixth.

Though Rhys Hoskins did record the game’s first hit in the top of the fifth, it wasn't until the sixth inning that the floodgates opened. Three straight hits from Sal Frelick, Chourio, and Christian Yelich gave the Crew two more runs, extending their lead to three. An inning later, six straight Brewers reached base, capped off by a bases-clearing double from Yelich that made it 8-0 Brewers.

Yelich followed up his big hit in the seventh with another big hit in the eighth. In fact, it was another bases-clearing double that really should have been a grand slam. Yelich hit it to the deepest part of Target Field, and according to Brian Anderson and Dominic Cotroneo on the Fan Duel Sports Network Wisconsin broadcast, the 429 feet that it traveled makes it the longest non-HR base hit of the 2025 season.

While that could be considered a record in its own right, Yelich's more impressive feat came in the top of the ninth. With position player Jonah Bride on the mound for the Twins, Yelich grounded a ball through the right side, scoring Chourio from second. Though the run couldn't have been less significant to the game — it gave the Brewers a 17-2 lead — it was significant to the record books, as it gave Yelich his eighth RBI of the game, tying Rowdy Tellez for the most RBI in a single game in franchise history, according to StatMuse.

However, Yelich collected those career-high eight RBIs in an interesting fashion. He didn't do so with a home run or two as Tellez did back in 2022. In fact, Yelich didn't even score a run in yesterday's blowout win. According to Vassallo on X, and reported by several others as well, Yelich is the first player to have eight RBIs in a game without hitting a HR, and the first two to do so without scoring a run.

Talk about a record-setting game. Everywhere you look, the Brewers seemingly tied or broke a record. But the fact that Misiorowski and Yelich were the two leading the way is an added bonus. As the representatives of the Brewers' present and the Brewers' future, Yelich and Miz joined together to produce one of the most exciting and enjoyable games in Brewers history.