Jacob Misiorowski throws a complete game one-hit shutout on 95 pitches, Phillies lose 6-0 in Milwaukee

I’m not going to sugarcoat this one because there’s nothing to sugarcoat. The Phillies walked into American Family Field on Friday night and got absolutely humiliated by a 24-year-old kid who throws the ball harder than any starting pitcher in the history of tracked velocity.

Jacob Misiorowski threw a complete game shutout on 95 pitches with 15 strikeouts, one hit, and zero walks while 58 of those pitches came in at 100 mph or greater. The Phillies looked like they had never held a bat before. One hit in nine innings against a pitcher who is barely old enough to rent a car.

Jacob Misiorowski…

9 IP
27 batters faced
1 hit
0 runs
0 walks
15 strikeouts

Jacob Misiorowski just pitched one of the greatest games EVER https://t.co/ulMyirTP9M pic.twitter.com/y4p6XrYYaV

— MLB (@MLB) June 13, 2026

I don’t even know what to write about this one.

A 6-0 loss that took two hours and four minutes because there was genuinely nothing to slow the game down. The Phillies couldn’t make contact long enough to create a pause in the action.

The Phillies got one hit, which was a Schwarber single on a slider in the fourth inning, which was immediately erased when Turner struck out and Harper grounded into a double play. That was the entire offensive output against a 24-year-old who is built like a comic book character at 6’7″ and throws the ball so hard that hitters look like they’re swinging at something they can hear but can’t see.

Nine of Misiorowski’s first 11 outs came on strikeouts. He struck out Schwarber, Turner, and Harper in the first inning on 12 pitches, nine of which were 103 mph or greater. The man threw nine pitches over 103 in a single inning and the three best hitters on the Phillies’ roster went back to the dugout without putting a ball in play.

The sellout crowd of 40,205 at American Family Field was going absolutely insane and I can’t even blame them because what they watched was the most dominant pitching performance any team has put up against the Phillies all season.

Mattingly was asked afterward if he’d ever seen a power display like it before and his answer was basically no. That’s a guy who played against Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens telling you that what Misiorowski did Friday night was something he’s never witnessed. Let that sit for a second.

Misiorowski lowered his ERA to 1.34, which leads all of baseball and sits just ahead of Sanchez’s 1.54. The Cy Young race just got a lot more interesting because the Phillies got a front-row seat to the guy who might take it from their own ace.

The Phillies continue to have an Andrew Painter problem

While Misiorowski was throwing 104 mph and making the Phillies look helpless, Andrew Painter was on the other side giving up five hits and five runs across five innings. The Phillies tried to soften his landing by using Tanner Banks as an opener, which means the coaching staff was already worried enough about Painter’s first inning that they didn’t want him facing the top of the Brewers’ lineup to start the game. Banks gave up a run in the first and then Painter came in for the second and proceeded to get hit around for five more.

The worst sequence was the fifth inning when Painter got the first two outs and looked like he might escape with some dignity intact before giving up a double, walking a guy, and then serving Jake Bauers a first-pitch sweeper that Bauers deposited into the seats for a three-run homer. A first-pitch sweeper with two runners on and two outs in a game that was already slipping away. That’s the kind of pitch selection that makes you wonder whether the game plan broke down or whether Painter just doesn’t have the feel for high-leverage situations right now.

Fifteen runs in 13 innings over his last three starts. His ERA has ballooned to 6.43. The 42-pitch first inning against the White Sox, the shelling in this game, and the overall inconsistency across the season paint a picture of a 23-year-old who is not ready to be a fifth starter on a team trying to make the playoffs. The stuff flashes. The splitter has become a real pitch. The slider can be devastating when it’s located. But the fastball command disappears for entire innings at a time and when it does, everything else falls apart with it.

Painter sat at his locker in quiet thought for several minutes before talking to reporters after the game, which tells you everything about where his head is right now. The kid is competing. He’s not mailing it in. He’s just getting his ass kicked on a stage that might be too big for him at this point in his development and the results are piling up in the wrong direction.

The Phillies Don’t Have a Better Option

There’s not much behind Painter at Triple-A, which means the Phillies are stuck in the worst possible position with their fifth starter. They can’t send him down because there’s nobody to replace him. They can’t keep running him out there at a 6.43 ERA because it’s costing them games during a Wild Card race. They can’t acquire a starter at the trade deadline for another seven weeks. They’re trapped with a rookie who has the ceiling of a frontline starter and the current production of a guy who shouldn’t be in the rotation.

The Phillies are 37-32 and in the thick of the Wild Card chase with Sanchez and Wheeler carrying the rotation at a historic level and Luzardo contributing quality starts on the road. The top three is as good as any rotation in baseball. The bottom of the rotation, between Painter’s 6.43 ERA and Nola’s inconsistency, has been a consistent drain on a team that can’t afford to give away games.

Every fifth day when Painter takes the ball, the Phillies are essentially hoping for a coin flip between the version of him that can compete and the version that gives up 15 runs in 13 innings. That’s not sustainable for a team trying to make the postseason, and unless Painter finds something over the next few starts, the conversation about acquiring a starter at the deadline is going to get very loud very fast.

The Phillies Won’t See Misiorowski Again Until September

That’s the silver lining of Friday night’s horror show. The Brewers’ ace won’t face the Phillies again in the regular season until September, and maybe after that in October if both teams are still playing. If the Phillies end up meeting Milwaukee in the postseason, they’ll have to figure out how to score against a guy who throws 104 mph from 6’7″ and struck out 15 of them on one hit. That’s a problem for future Phillies. Present Phillies just need to forget Friday happened and take the series with Sanchez and Wheeler lined up for the weekend.

Sanchez goes Saturday in a matchup that puts the NL’s two lowest ERAs on the same field. Then Wheeler on Sunday. If the Phillies take two of three in Milwaukee, Friday’s embarrassment becomes a footnote. If they lose the series, Painter’s struggles become the headline heading into the final stretch before the All-Star break.

Tip your cap to Misiorowski. The kid is a freak of nature and what he did Friday night was one of the most dominant performances any pitcher has had against anyone all season. The Phillies ran into a buzzsaw and there was nothing they could do about it. Move on to Saturday and let Sanchez remind everyone who the best pitcher in the National League is.

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