Jacob Misiorowski left Game 5 of the World Series in the sixth inning with a cramp, and the Brewers closed out the title without him. Yahoo Sports' Jason Owens reported that the pitcher met a trainer on the mound and then couldn't continue. Owens called it a calf cramp, and Sportsnet used the same wording. The r/baseball posts say only "cramps" and "leg cramp", so the exact location comes from the Yahoo and Sportsnet reports. MLB.com's Bryan Hoch framed the night as a scoreless start that set up a historic clinch.
Misiorowski had thrown 86 pitches, per one r/baseball post, and our box score for Wednesday's game agrees. He finished with 5.2 innings, two hits, one walk and two strikeouts, and no runs allowed. Fans at Tropicana Field gave him a standing ovation as he walked off, according to two of the Reddit threads, including one from MLB's official account. He was credited with the win.
The relievers took it from there. JoJo Romero and Abner Uribe each got 0.2 innings without allowing a run. Trevor Megill then pitched the last two innings and gave up a ninth-inning run, the only one the Rays scored. Milwaukee won 4-1. Cooper Pratt drove in two runs and William Contreras and David Hamilton drove in one each. Drew Rasmussen took the loss.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIL | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| TB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
The start capped a season in which Misiorowski was Milwaukee's most dominant pitcher. He went 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA over 30 games and 174.2 innings, and he struck out 252. Wednesday's line fits that profile: a lot of weak contact and few baserunners, even with only two strikeouts. Our archive shows Milwaukee at 103-59, first in the NL Central, with a five-game winning streak. That streak includes a 10-1 win in Game 3 and a 4-3 loss in Game 4, both at Tampa Bay.
The outlets disagree on how serious the injury is. Yahoo's headline promises an injury update, but the summary we have includes no diagnosis, no word on whether he needs further testing, and no timeline. We have no quotes from Misiorowski or the Brewers' staff. Cramps often don't carry over, but nothing in the reporting says that about this one. The Brewers' next step is an update from the club on his condition, and none has come in the coverage we have.
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