Atlanta Braves at Milwaukee Brewers

Jacob Misiorowski hovered around “only” 100 mph and generated fewer swings and misses than in some of his more electric starts this season. But in a matchup against one of the pitchers he admired most growing up in suburban Kansas City, Misiorowski reminded everyone that there is more to pitching than pure velocity. Cementing his status as the frontrunner for the National League Cy Young Award with about five weeks remaining in the regular season, Misiorowski lowered his Major League-leading ERA to 1.68 by holding the Braves to four hits in six scoreless innings of Friday’s 2-1 Brewers win at American Family Field. It was an old-school matchup of aces that had the feel of October, and the type of game to match. Misiorowski dueled Braves ace left-hander Chris Sale in front of a sellout crowd of 40,130 for a victory that moved the Brewers to a season-high 31 games over .500 and made them the first team in the Majors to reach 80 victories. “That’s what the fans came to see, right?” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “Sale versus Miz. It was really Braves versus Brewers, but a lot of people came for the \[matchup\