Well folks, they stood up for him before he'd even thrown a pitch, and by the time he walked off they were still standing. Jacob Misiorowski took the mound for the final time this regular season in front of a sellout American Family Field, and the ovation that met him at first pitch was still going, in one form or another, five-and-a-third innings later. This was never just another Sunday against St. Louis. This was the last chapter, and everybody in that building knew exactly what book they were closing.
He gave them 5.1 scoreless innings, five strikeouts, the fastball still sitting at 102.7 on the way out — and he got a fitting way to end it, too, freezing Jordan Walker for the final out of his outing. The Brewers had already done the heavy lifting by then: a three-run first inning built on six singles, with Jackson Chourio, Brice Turang and Christian Yelich each dropping in a run. Turang's was the biggest of the three — his 100th RBI of the season, making him just the 8th Brewer ever to reach 100 runs and 100 RBI in the same year. Sánchez tacked on two more in the third with a two-run homer, and Chourio wasn't finished — a two-out RBI single in the fourth made it 6-0 before St. Louis ever got on the board. He finished the day 3-for-4.
The only blemish on the afternoon belonged to the bullpen, not the ace: St. Louis got to Chad Patrick for four runs in the eighth, the Cardinals' entire offensive output for the day, none of it touching Misiorowski's line. Drohan came on to nail down his second save of the season, and Milwaukee closed it out 6-4 — final record, final everything.
Because this was it — the last turn through the rotation before October. Milwaukee finishes the regular season at 103-59, a franchise record and the best record in all of baseball, which means home-field advantage through every round they play this postseason. And the man on the mound today finishes with a resume that reads like a stat-sheet typo: MLB's leader in ERA (1.80), strikeouts (252), WHIP (0.80) and opponents' batting average (.157) — the lowest full-season opponent average on record, passing Pedro Martínez's .167 in 2000, per MLB.com and the Elias Sports Bureau. He's just the second Brewer ever to win an MLB ERA title, joining Corbin Burnes (2021). He joins Justin Verlander (2019) and Pedro Martínez (2000) as the only pitchers with 250-plus strikeouts and a WHIP at or below 0.80 in the same season. And he joins Sandy Koufax (1965), J.R. Richard (1979) and Mike Scott (1986) as the only pitchers since 1950 to lead all of MLB in ERA, strikeouts and opponents' batting average in the same year.