Just five starts into his major-league career, Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski has been named an NL all-star.
Jacob Misiorowski arrived at American Family Field on Friday, July 11 expecting only to watch the Milwaukee Brewers take on the Washington Nationals.
The rookie phenom left having made history after unexpectedly being named a National League all-star.
His five major-league games are the fewest ever for a player selected for the Midsummer Classic, surpassing Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes previous mark of 11 set last season.
He's 4-1 with a 2.81 ERA, WHIP of 0.90 and has struck out 33 in 25 ⅔ innings while limiting opposing batters to a collective .138 average.
Detroit's Mark Fidrych (1976), Los Angeles's Hideon Nomo (1995) and Florida's Dontrelle Willis (2003) each had only 13 games under their belts when they received their first all-star nods.
Misiorowski will join fellow Milwaukee pitchers Freddy Peralta and Trevor Megill at Truist Park in Atlanta, with the All-Star Game taking place on July 15.
"I'm speechless," Misiorowski said following the Brewers' 8-3 victory. "It's awesome. It's very unexpected, and it's an honor."
The 23-year-old said he received the news from manager Pat Murphy, as he estimated, about three minutes prior to the national anthem.
"Not even close," Misiorowski said when asked if he could have ever expected such news so early in his career.
"Got called into Murph's office. Sitting in there and he said, 'Close the door,' and basically broke it to me. And I had to sit there the whole game and not tell anyone.
"It was hard."
Misiorowski has taken baseball by storm since debuting on June 12.
He threw five shutout innings that night against the St. Louis Cardinals, took a perfect game into the seventh inning his next time out against the Minnesota Twins and followed that up five days later by out-dueling Skenes. Most recently, the right-hander struck out 12 over six dominant innings to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The 2022 second-round pick already has a hat of his in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and has rightly received all sorts of national attention since bursting onto the scene.
It would be a lot for anyone to absorb.
But Misiorowski, as "aw shucks" and grounded as they come, has leaned on his support group that's also included his teammates.
"Family and friends around me. Girlfriend here," he said, choking back tears. "It's meant the world, what they've done for me. It's awesome."
Murphy, meanwhile, went through his usual postgame news conference with reporters before ending with the announcement.
"Kind of our version of Forrest Gump," he said. "He was moved, and he addressed the team, even. It was, like only he could be, tremendously genuine. He's very grateful, very thankful and he understands this is the entertainment business.
"He's garnered so much attention that while (he's made) only five starts, he's going to the All-Star Game. This is a business and he's done that for himself. It's not a matter of anything else other than people want to see him pitch."
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Unexpected and unprecedented, Murphy was asked for his reaction when he received the news.
"At first I thought, 'This is not going to be fair.' This kid, it's not the same way the other guys have to go out and pitch – whoever it may be," he said. "You look at a guy (Abner) Uribe, you look at a guy like Brice Turang or Sal (Frelick) or so many other deserving people you could make an argument for.
"But this is the entertainment business, this is what MLB wants, this is what people want to see. And the kid can't say no to that, right? It's just a great honor to have another Milwaukee Brewer there. The way he accepted it and the way he handled it just shows you how humble he is.
"Like I said, he's our Forrest Gump."
DL Hall and Quinn Priester, who combined to pitch all nine innings against the Nationals, were understandably thrilled for their teammate.
"Incredible," Hall said. "I think we all know he's worthy of it. The kid's stuff is incredible. It's fun to watch and like Murph said, it's super exciting and it's good for baseball.
"We're all super happy for him."
Added Priester: "That's awesome. Really fired up for him. He's electric to watch, and he's going to represent us really well."
Misiorowski, a native of Blue Springs, Missouri, and product of tiny Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri – also the alma mater of Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby – tried summing up the many thoughts running through his head in the aftermath.
"It's been a long time coming," he said, referring to the path he's traveled to get to this point. "And I just want to honor the guys around me and be a Brewer."
Now, Misiorowski needs to change his plans for next week.
He has a trip to make.
"I was going to do nothing. Now I'm doing something," he said with a grin. "It's going to be fun."
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 'I'm speechless': Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski named an NL all-star
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