Milwaukee Brewers at Houston Astros

How would budding Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski characterize his dazzling month of May? “It was pretty good,” he said. View this post on Instagram Pretty good? By grinding through seven more scoreless innings without his best stuff in Sunday’s 2-0 Brewers win over the Astros at Daikin Park, finishing a month that saw Milwaukee surge from last place to first in the National League Central, the 24-year-old right-hander lowered his ERA for the month to 0.23. “I mean, that’s decent,” Misiorowski said. Brewers left fielder Jake Bauers helped out with a diving catch in the second inning and a two-run homer in the fourth to back the understated Misiorowski, who supplemented his sparkling May ERA with a .109 opponents’ batting average and a 0.52 WHIP, all representing the best marks in Brewers history for any month in which a pitcher made at least four starts. And eight more strikeouts against the Astros gave Misiorowski 57 strikeouts in May, the most of any pitcher in any calendar month in franchise history. This time, he actually appeared to break a sweat. “I’m not sure he had his best fastball,” Bauers said. “But I mean, with stuff like his, him not having his best stuff is better than most guys in the league.”