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The Miz has somehow unlocked an even higher level of dominance.

Jacob Misiorowski, the Milwaukee Brewers' nearly untouchable fireballing right-hander, tossed the first complete game and shutout of his career, needing just 95 pitches to toss a one-hitter and strike out 15 against the Philadelphia Phillies Friday, June 12 at American Family Field.

Only a Kyle Schwarber single in the fourth inning separated Misiorowski from perfection. And Schwarber was erased one batter later on a Bryce Harper double play ball.

Yep, he faced the minimum 27 batters in the Brewers' 6-0 victory and along the way, Misiorowski tossed a 104.5 mph pitch to strike out Schwarber in the first, the hardest pitch by a starting pitcher since pitch tracking began in 2008. It was his first time pitching beyond the seventh inning in 28 career starts.

And pitching on the one-year anniversary of his major league debut, he made it look easy: Not only did Misiorowski not walk a batter, he did not face a three-ball count all game.

And his 15 strikeouts were the most by a pitcher in a shutout of less than 100 pitches, breaking Detroit Tiger lefty Tarik Skubal's record of 13. Seventy-four of his 95 pitches were strikes.

Misiorowski said it felt like he was "floating" in a postgame interview with the Brewers TV broadcast. He certainly maintained his stuff, given he hit 104.5 mph on the first batter of the game and 103 mph on his last pitch − a fastball he blew by Justin Crawford to finish his gem.

The final out of Miz's masterpiece 🥹 pic.twitter.com/FjPyQalcd4

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) June 13, 2026

"There was no chance," says Misiorowski, "I was going to throw something other than a heater there."

It capped a night the crowd of 40,205, with the roof open on a gorgeous night in Milwaukee, urged him along, giving him a standing ovation when he emerged from the dugout for the ninth inning. The Phillies stood little chance.

"That was as good as it gets," says Brewers manager Pat Murphy. "With all those All-Stars and great players they have over there, incredible, incredible performance. Efficient.

“Amazing young man. Really is. He just goes out and lets it eat."

It was the Brewers' first complete game since Brandon Woodruff went the distance in September 2023. And it figures to be the first of many for Misiorowski.

The 6-foot-7, 24-year-old continues to defy convention − that his body can't sustain such prolonged hard throwing, that he can't be pitch-efficient while striking out so many guys.

But all that's a little easier when you simply don't let anyone on base.

The Texas Rangers scored one run but the Boston Red Sox scored ten runs.

The Rangers collected three hits in their first four at-bats against tonight’s Boston starter Sonny Gray but because they’re now, paradoxically, a pop-less small ball team with slow baserunners, all three hits were singles and all three were required to score their first inning run that put them up 1-0.

If you didn’t watch the game or check the score or read the headline of this post or read the introductory sentence, yes, that was the only run that Texas scored on the night. In fact, the Rangers didn’t even have another hit until the top of the sixth and just three more total after the flurry to begin the game. By the time they got that fourth hit, it was 6-1 Boston.

It was 2-1 Boston after the first inning so that Texas lead didn’t even last very long. In fact, it was 2-1 Boston after their first hit of the game. Because they hit a home run.

Technically it wasn’t a two-run home run because Boston’s first run scored in part because the Rangers were poor at virtually every aspect of the sport tonight. In this instance Jack Leiter walked the leadoff hitter and, following a force out, Ceddanne Rafaela reached third base on a throwing error on a stolen base attempt and scored on a sac fly like 220 feet down the left field line.

The score remained 2-1 until the bottom of the fifth inning when the Red Sox decided to pepper the Green Monster with bullets to further inflate Leiter’s ever-expanding ERA. By the end of the frame, Boston had scored four runs following three consecutive doubles and a two-base throwing error by Josh Jung.

Leading the way with three RBIs tonight was Wilyer Abreu (tied with Rafaela) who would be make Shohei Ohtani look like Justin Foscue if he were allowed to play the Rangers every night. The Red Sox scored three more in the eighth. The Nos. 2-4 hitters for Boston had nine hits and eight RBIs between them.

Anyway the Rangers are back below .500.

Player of the Game: It’s quaint comparatively but Wyatt Langford had two whole hits and drove in a run tonight!

Up Next: The Rangers will look to rebound with RHP Jacob deGrom on the mound against LHP Ranger Suarez for Boston.

Saturday’s first pitch from Fenway Park is scheduled for 3:10 pm CDT and will be aired on the Rangers Sports Network.

Tonight has not gone well for the Atlanta Braves as they’re currently in a deep hole against the New York Mets in the opening game of this weekend series. They could be dealing with some more injury woes to their core players as Spencer Strider exited tonight’s game with trainer George Poulis following a concerning velocity drop.

Strider’s fastball was down to around 88-mph — a significant drop from his usual velocity of 95-mph so far this season. Following a disastrous three innings of work (including six runs given up on two dingers hit by Bo Bichette and one from Juan Soto), his efforts on the mound prompted a mound visit from both Walt Weiss and George Poulis and a visibly-frustrated Strider agreed to leave the game due to the issues that he was dealing with.

Hopefully it’s nothing serious but at the same time, it’s tough to not be alarmed when you consider what was going on with his velocity once he was making his exit. We’ll update this post with any new developments so stay tuned.

UPDATE [10:16 p.m. ET]: The Braves are calling it “right arm soreness” for Strider as the cause for his exit. It’s vague but that’s also not the type of catch-all that you want to see. Let’s continue to hope for the best.

As farfetched as a trade to the Yankees might be, Aroldis Chapman created a stir this week when he told ESPN Deportes that he would want an apology from general manager Brian Cashman before potentially being dealt to The Bronx.

Boone on Friday said he did not agree with the idea that the organization owed the Red Sox closer an apology for how his Yankees tenure ended in 2022.

Chapman, who struggled and lost his closer job that season, missed a mandatory workout ahead of the ALDS for what Boone said at the time was an unacceptable excuse. Cashman fined him for the absence, and the Yankees ultimately left him off the roster.

“At the end of the day, he wasn’t at the workout,” Boone said. “I made the decision, based on a lot of things and thought, to leave him off because I thought that was the right thing to do at the time. Chappy apologized, and really, it’s water under the bridge for me.

“I love Chappy. I have a really good relationship with him to this day. But the ending of the ’22 season was what it was. He wasn’t there, and I made the decision that I didn’t think it was best for him to come back at that point. He maintained that he was throwing and would be ready as the playoffs unfolded that year. But ultimately, I made that decision.”

It is Friday night.

The Orioles have beaten the Padres, 7-3. Gunnar Henderson reached base four times, with three hits – including his 14th homer. It was his 100th homer of his career, making him the fourth-fastest Oriole to reach 100 homers with the franchise. Tyler O’Neill had a pair of hits (really!), and Shane Baz survived five innings despite not looking like he would for a while there, with four Orioles relievers combining to keep San Diego from scoring after that. The team won their third straight game as they took this series opener.

YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE.

The San Francisco Giants welcome the Chicago Cubs to Oracle Park tonight for a rematch of last weekend’s series.

Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Landen Roupp, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.00 ERA, 3.02 FIP, with 77 strikeouts to 30 walks in 69.2 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 3-2 loss to the Cubs on Saturday, in which he allowed one run on three hits with five strikeouts and three walks in five and two thirds innings.

He’ll be facing off against Cubs right-hander Javier Assad, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.73 ERA, 4.37 FIP, with 19 strikeouts to eight walks in 32.1 innings pitched. His last start was in the Cubs’ 2-1 loss to the Giants on Sunday, in which he allowed just one hit and one walk with five strikeouts in six and a third innings.

Game #70

Who: San Francisco Giants (28-41) vs. Chicago Cubs (35-34)

Where: Oracle Park, San Francisco, California

When: 7:15 p.m. PT

Regional broadcast: NBC Sports Bay Area

National broadcast: n/a

Radio: KNBR 680 AM/104.5 FM, KSFN 1510 AM

TORONTO — Trent Grisham continued a red-hot run Friday night, but it came at a cost.

After roping a two-run single in the sixth inning, Grisham took second base on the throw home and got hurt doing so, leaving the Yankees’ 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays with right hamstring tightness.

Grisham said he felt it rounding first base but that it was “too early to tell” what his level of concern was.

“We’ll see where it wakes up [Saturday],” said Grisham, who almost immediately began walking off the field after sliding into second base. “Hopefully, it’s good news, no IL, but we’ll see.”

Manager Aaron Boone indicated that Grisham could go for tests in the coming days, but nothing was planned immediately.

If Grisham is forced to the injured list, which would not be surprising given how he needs his legs to play center field, the Yankees likely would activate Jasson Domínguez off the IL to replace him on the roster, with Spencer Jones potentially taking over regular center field duties.

Domínguez, who homered in his fifth rehab game Friday night while coming back from a left AC joint sprain — and playing right field for the third straight game — initially was scheduled to play another game at Triple-A on Saturday, but those plans were up in the air with Grisham’s status.

“There’s a chance we bring [Domínguez] up, depending on Grish,” Boone said. “It just depends. We’ll see what we have overnight and in the morning. But Jasson could be in play.”

The timing of the injury is brutal for Grisham, who entered Friday batting .377 with a 1.014 OPS over his last 18 games — having reached base multiple times in 12 of those games — and .285 with a .832 OPS over his last 34 games.

After a relatively healthy start to the season, the Yankees have taken on a pile of injuries of late. They have Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Austin Wells, Max Fried and Domínguez all on the IL.

Instead of a starting outfield of Cody Bellinger, Grisham and Judge, that unit by Saturday could feature Bellinger, Jones and Domínguez.

“It’s part of it,” Boone said. “Everyone kind of deals with it. Fortunately, as we’ve talked about all year, I feel like it’s one of the deeper rosters we’ve had in a while. So we got capable people of going in there and picking up any slack left. You never like key guys going down of course, but in a long season, that’s unfortunately part of it sometimes.

“Another opportunity for potentially a couple really good players that are stepping in. We’re not hoping on guys that can’t play. We’ll weather it and look forward to getting more and more guys back in the mix.”

After a series victory at home against the Twins, the Tigers headed around the corner of Lake Erie to take on another division rival in Cleveland for a three-game weekend series. The Detroiters could only manage a pair of solo home runs in a losing effort, dropping the opener 3-2 on Friday night.

Jack Flaherty made his fifteenth start for the Tigers, and much has been said about his inconsistency. The good news coming into tonight was that, in his previous three starts, he hadn’t been that bad — pitched into the sixth, gave up a maximum of three runs, struck out at least six each time. With some starting pitchers due to come back from the Injured List soon, you have to wonder if Flaherty stays in the rotation with some of the young kids doing well.

Like Flaherty, Cleveland’s starting pitcher had a 1-7 record coming into tonight’s game, being one Tanner Bibee. But Bibee’s peripheral numbers look a lot better than Flaherty’s: ERA (4.09 vs. 5.31), WHIP (1.234 vs. 1.580), BB/9 (4.8 vs. 2.8). He’s in his fourth year with the Guardians, and he’s been a good, reliable part of their rotation since coming up in 2023 — not to mention a sensational start against Detroit in May. But these are the June Tigers, though, right?

The Tigers had an early squander: with one out in the top of the first, Bibee walked a pair of batters… and then both Dillon Dingler and Kerry Carpenter struck out, stranding a pair. As it turns out, that would be about as close to a sustained threat they’d have all night.

Cleveland got on the board first in the bottom of the second: Rhys Hoskins led off with a double, and Flaherty got the next two batters to fly out harmlessly. Up to the plate stepped a sub-.160 hitter, Patrick Bailey — great defensive catcher, not a world-beater in the batter’s box by any means — and he dumped a liner into left field to score Hoskins. Brayan Rocchio followed with a triple to right to score Bailey and put Cleveland up 2-0. By the end of the second, Flaherty had thrown 49 pitches, suggesting he might not go too deep in this game for any reason. But hey, Newest Tiger™ James Outman made a nice sliding catch.

Naturally, leading off the third, Outman — not known for his bat the past couple of years — crushed a no-doubter to right-centre to narrow the score to 2-1.

Flaherty’s night was shortened by injury, coming out after three innings — he grimaced while fielding a grounder to end the third with “left leg discomfort.” Other Newest Tiger™, Jacob Waguespack, started the fourth. He pitched in Toronto in 2019-20, pitched a couple of years in Japan, then spent a couple of years mostly at Triple-A, before being added to the Tigers today out of Milwaukee’s Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He gave up a single and a walk but ended up getting three outs without any damage.

Drew Sommers took over for Waguespack in the fifth to face a few fellow lefties, and he gave up a harmless single but nothing more. Meanwhile, Bibee was cruising pretty easily: through six innings he’d only thrown 79 pitches, and Outman’s home run was the only hit he’d surrendered.

Drew Number Two (i.e., Anderson) relieved Sommers in the sixth and it didn’t go as well: with one out Angel Martínez doubled, and Steven Kwan — who’s lousy this year against everyone except us — singled to score Martínez and push the lead back up to two runs. Bailey legged-out an infield single (of course) to put a pair on, but a strikeout and a flyout prevented further damage.

The reliever parade continued with Ty Madden for the seventh, and he gave up a one-out double but the runner was stranded and the game carried on with a two-run gap ‘twixt the squadrons.

Spencer Torkelson had something to say about that, though, leading off the eighth:

That was the end of Bibee’s day; giving up two solo home runs as your only hits in seven-plus innings is a weird final line.

Cade Smith was brought in to nail down the save for Cleveland in the ninth; with two out Dingler made a bid for a game-tying home run but unfortunately the fly ball fell short of the fence, and that was the game.

Final score: Guardians 3, Tigers 2

Notes and Observances

• Tarik Skubal’s starting on Saturday.
• Casey Mize is starting on Sunday.
• Who goes to the bullpen? Toledo? Trading block? Released?
• Apparently it’s okay to have two Drews in the bullpen, but not two Zachs/Zacks on the field. Got it.
• Marv Albert, Chick Corea and Roy Harper were all born on this day in 1941. Neat!

The Yankees' outfield depth is about to be tested after Trent Grisham had to exit Friday's game against the Blue Jays with what the team calls right hamstring tightness.

While the nature of Grisham's injury isn't yet known, it seemed that the veteran outfielder pulled up lame rounding first and made an awkward slide into second on a throw home after he hit a two-run single in the sixth inning. Grisham finished 1-for-4, but that single cut Toronto's lead to 7-5 at the time.

A 2-run hit for Trent Grisham, but he’s coming out of the game after advancing to second base on the throw home pic.twitter.com/PeizHZm3ma

— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 13, 2026

This is not the first time Grisham has had to exit a game against the Blue Jays this season. Back on May 20, Grisham had left knee discomfort legging out a double. The injury didn't land Grisham on the IL, but it's unclear if the same will happen this time around.

Grisham was replaced in the outfield by Max Schuemann, who moved to right field to allow Spencer Jones to man center.

The Yankees already have Aaron Judge and Jasson Dominguez on the IL, with the latter close to returning. Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the plan was for Dominguez to get a couple of more rehab games this weekend with Triple-A before they decide on whether to activate him. If Grisham needs an IL stint, the Yankees may be forced to bring Dominguez back sooner than they originally planned. 

Grisham is having a solid season. He's batting .232 with eight home runs with an OPS of .747 while playing great defense in center every day for the Yankees. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Almost four months since pitchers and catchers reported for spring training, there are still plenty of firsts for the Giants’ rookie manager. 

An easy one he waited until Friday to knock out: Naming a closer.

“[Caleb] Kilian will close for us,” Tony Vitello declared before the Giants opened a three-game series against the Cubs, departing from their previous by-committee approach.

“We talked to several of those guys about just getting more organized. …The bullpen’s all about chaos, but the more you can have a baseline, I think it brings out the best in the group.”

The decision represents a quick about-face from Vitello, who as recently as this past Sunday commended the group for “being so great all year long” even though “we haven’t really had defined roles. It’s kind of been organized chaos.”

The news also coincides with the return of the last pitcher to formally hold the closer’s title in San Francisco, Ryan Walker, who was called up from a month-long assignment in the minor leagues.

Walker saved 30 games over the past three seasons but struggled last year and never reclaimed the role in spring training. He is 3-for-6 in save situations this season — one of eight pitchers Vitello has turned to in the Giants’ 21 save opportunities, including two on their last road trip who weren’t Kilian.

Keaton Winn, with his devastating splitter, seemed to be being primed to take over the role after receiving four recent late-inning opportunities. But he allowed the tying or go-ahead runs in two of those chances, including one on his third straight day of action that went awry.

Kilian is second to Walker with five save opportunities, converting four of them with a 3.34 ERA.

“I just think he’s done well in that spot,” Vitello said. “It also is a combination of what other guys need to do or can do for us. He wants the ball in that situation.”

Vitello hasn’t had many reliable options, adding an extra wrinkle to his duties managing a major league bullpen for the first time. Since the end of April, the Giants’ ragtag group of relievers have posted a 5.35 ERA that ranks third worst in the majors.

As the skipper attempts to instill some more order, Walker has a new role, too: fireman.

“Obviously he’s been in as big of a situation as you can imagine,” Vitello said. “A big thing for Walk is being able to come in and be the fireman in particular situations that might pop up really anytime after the starter leaves the game.”

In other words, the Giants will trust Walker to handle the biggest situations before the ninth inning. Winn and J.T. Brubaker can both handle multiple innings in the middle, and Vitello has been impressed with Dylan Smith since he was called up last week.

Once it gets to the ninth, the inning belongs to Kilian.

At least for now.

“Right now, I’m here to get my job done, whatever that job is,” Walker said. “But my ultimate goal is definitely to get back into those high-leverage positions and eventually climb my way back into that closer role.”

Walker was 3-for-4 in save opportunities with a 3.00 ERA on April 25 but allowed runs in each of his final five outings, blowing two saves, before being optioned back to the minors.

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It was the first time Walker had been sent back to the minors since he got his initial callup in May 2023, on the same day as former catcher Patrick Bailey.

“It didn’t really surprise me in a way,” he said. “I knew at some point it was probably going to happen. When it did happen, I didn’t hang my head. I was very positive. I told myself, OK, this is going to be a great time to work on your craft.”

Walker first went to the Giants’ facilities in Arizona for about a week, where he worked with Matt Yourkin, their pitching rehab coordinator, to sort through his issues before reporting to Triple-A Sacramento. He had issued 10 walks in 15 ⅓ innings at the time of his demotion.

The two made some small changes to his hyper-rotational cross-fire delivery that appear to have helped him regain his command. Besides one subpar outing, Walker issued only one walk over seven other appearances, including two that spanned multiple innings.

Rather than trying to stay parallel to the rubber in his motion, he’s now at a slight angle.

“Now I can almost have a straight shot to where my landing spot is. It became a lot more consistent,” Walker said. “Once the mechanics kind of cleared up, I noticed the bounce-back was so much easier. Things were moving the way they should.”

The Mets identify as a disappointment, and the possibility their plight will worsen over the 23-game stretch that began Friday night is very real.

With two perennial NL East threats (the Braves and Phillies) scheduled as opponents in 13 of those games, the Mets realize they have perhaps reached a critical juncture in the schedule.

“Definitely, I think this stretch can tell us a lot about who we are,” Bo Bichette said before the Mets faced the Braves at Citi Field.

Who are the Mets at the moment? A team that got buried in April with a 12-game losing streak that hasn’t played nearly well enough to overcome that early horrid play.

The Mets began the day 30-38, trailing the first-place Braves (who own MLB’s best record) by 15 games in the NL East. The resurgent Phillies, under manager Don Mattingly following Rob Thomson’s firing, began play leading by 1 ½ games for the NL’s second wild card.

“We have just got to show up and win as many games as we can — whether we’re playing those teams or somebody else,” Bichette said. “I don’t think chasing someone is the goal. Maybe in late September if we find ourselves in that situation that could be a goal, but right now we have just got to focus on what we can every day.”

Three big lineup pieces remain sidelined: Francisco Lindor, Jorge Polanco and Luis Robert Jr., Nevertheless, their respective returns might be a moot point if the hole in which the Mets are submerged gets any larger.

“Where we are in the season, where we are from a record standpoint, regardless of who we would be playing over the next month, is going to have an added level of importance,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said. “This is an important time of year for us.”

Stearns was asked why anybody should believe the Mets can still have a shot at a turnaround.

“We’ve got to prove that things are going to change,” Stearns said. “There is no question we have played better since April, but we still haven’t played consistent enough to get out of the hole we dug, and we’re very aware of that. We have to prove it. I continue to believe we have the people in the clubhouse who are capable of doing this.”

The Mets opened the homestand with two losses in three games to the Cardinals after going 3-3 on their last road trip. Since the end of April, the Mets were 20-17 entering play.

“Every series is like a measuring stick, especially where we are at,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “But we’re facing a real good team with the best record in baseball, but I think it’s about us playing our best baseball, and whether we’re playing the Braves it doesn’t matter.

“Our job is to go out there and start playing consistent baseball, winning baseball. So, whether it’s this weekend, it doesn’t matter who we are playing. It starts tonight.”

Bichette was asked what stood out to him about the Braves.

“The same thing that stands out to anybody about them over the past five years,” Bichette said. “They had a down season last year, but they are a proud group with a lot of talent. All their players play every day, too, and it’s tough to find that. They have got everything you need.”

Go Rays!

The Colorado Rockies are opening a six-game road trip tonight with three games against the Athletics in Las Vegas, where the A’s are playing a rare ‘home’ series away from their temporary home in Sacramento. After this series, the Rockies head to Wrigley Field for three against the Chicago Cubs.

The nomadic Athletics enter at 33-35, and only two games out of first place in a middling AL West. They are 5-4 to start June and are coming off taking two of three from the same Milwaukee Brewers team that swept the Rockies last week.

The A’s are not a complete team, but they can hit.

They rank seventh in baseball with a .735team OPS, led by Nick Kurtz (162 OPS+) and Shea Langeliers (135 OPS+). The pitching and defense have lagged behind, with Oakland ranking 27th in starter ERA, 21st in relief ERA, and 25th in Defensive Runs Saved.

Colorado enters the Vegas series at 26-43, but the Rockies are 4-5 through nine June games after taking two of three from the Cubs. That was a needed bounce-back after the Brewers series.

There has also been recent prospect intrigue. Cole Carrigg, the Rockies’ No. 4 PuRP, was called up and clubbed his first big-league homer, and now left-hander Sean Sullivan (No. 8 PuRP) has been promoted to make his MLB debut tonight.

Sullivan, 23, has made 11 starts for Triple-A Albuquerque this season, posting a 5.60 ERA over 54.2 innings with 50 strikeouts, 19 walks.

Sullivan is not a power lefty. He works from a funky delivery and leans on a broad pitch mix: a four-seam fastball (40.1%), sweeper (25.6%), cutter (17.2%), changeup (14.3%), and occasional slider (2.7%). The fastball generally lives around 88-90 mph, with the cutter in the 85-87 mph range, the changeup around 78-80 mph, and the sweeper closer to 76-78 mph.

Sullivan has not missed bats at the same rate he did earlier in his minor-league career, and hitters have made frequent contact against him, especially in the zone. The contact has not been especially loud, though. His hard-hit rate is 30.1%, and his xERA is 4.81, which is more forgiving than the traditional ERA suggests.

He has limited hard contact and kept the walk rate manageable, but the lower strikeout rate and 10 home runs in 11 starts leave real questions about how thin the margin is. Tonight gives the Rockies a first look at how the pitch mix, deception, and contact-management traits translate against big-league hitters.

The Athletics will counter with another rookie left-hander in Gage Jump. Jump came into the year ranked as the No. 38 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline and the No. 3 prospect in the Athletics system. The 23-year-old southpaw is making just the fourth start of his major-league career.

Jump enters at 2-1 with a 2.45 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 13 strikeouts, and five walks across 18.1 innings. After allowing four runs in his MLB debut, he has settled in quickly. He held the Cubs to one run on three hits over seven innings on June 2, then shut out the Astros over 6.1 innings on June 7, allowing just three hits while walking three. Across those two starts, he has allowed one run on six hits over 13.1 innings, though the strikeout total has been modest at five.

Jump brings more traditional left-handed power stuff than Sullivan. He has leaned on a four-seam fastball (49%) at 96.4 mph, while mixing in a slider (24%) at 87.7 mph, a changeup (10%) at 88.2 mph, a sweeper (9%) at 84.5 mph, and a curveball (9%) at 82.3 mph.

Jump’s xERA sits at 3.47, and hitters have not made a ton of loud contact against him, with a 30.2% hard-hit rate. His strikeout rate is only 17.8% in the majors with a 21.3% whiff rate, so the swing-and-miss has not fully carried over yet. That said, he struck out 56 batters in 38 Triple-A innings this season.

Sterlin Thompson and Carrigg both faced Jump earlier this season in Las Vegas on May 20th. Thompson went 1-for-3 with a single and a strikeout, while Carrigg went 0-for-2 with a strikeout and a flyout. Albuquerque eventually scored six runs in the ninth inning to stun Las Vegas, 6-5.

Gage could create a tough matchup for a Rockies lineup that has had trouble with left-handed pitching. As a team, Colorado is hitting .239 with a .644 OPS against lefties this season. Jump has the velocity, five-pitch mix, and prospect pedigree to make this difficult if the Rockies let him settle in.

So, can Sullivan give the Rockies a useful debut, can the offense do enough against another talented rookie lefty, and can the Rockies pull out a late-night win in Las Vegas?

Now for the details…

First Pitch: 8:05 p.m. MDT

TV: Rockies.TV

Radio: KOA 850 AM/94.1 FM; KNRV 1150

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