Saturday, October 03

MILWAUKEE -- Brice Turang’s dad is the one who played in the big leagues and threw his son hours upon hours of batting practice. But Brice never forgets the role his mom, Carrie, played in his rise to Major League stardom.

“Raising five kids is hard, and she was everything to our family,” Brice said. “She was the glue to our family. I always looked up to my mom and dad, and wanted to be just like them.

“My mom is one of one.”

Carrie Turang was not just a full-time mom for Brice and his four sisters while they were growing up, she was an overtime mom, since all five kids were star athletes. That meant logging countless miles in Southern California making sure everyone got to practice on time. 

And Mom knows all about what it takes to play high level athletics. Carrie Turang played softball for Long Beach State and competed in the Women's College World Series.

“She doesn’t talk much about herself or her playing days, but she still has friends from college and goes back to some alumni events,” Brice said. “Obviously, sports is very big in my family, but she taught us more about being respectful, and just how to live your everyday life, what’s right and what’s wrong.

“Really, her and my dad both don’t say much about their own sports careers. They let us do our thing and have fun and enjoy it. They let us play.” 

His dad, Brian Turang, played in the Majors years before Brice was born, and he wasn’t as fortunate to find sustained success like his son, who has blossomed into one of the best second basemen in baseball. Brice has been in the big leagues since 2023, when he debuted as Milwaukee’s Opening Day shortstop before belting a grand slam for his first career home run days later in that year’s home opener.

Of course, mom and dad were in the stands.

When the recession hit in the late 2000s, with all of her children in school full time, Carrie decided to go back to work. She was certified as a teacher, and has been teaching high school art ever since.

“It wasn’t always easy, but her and my dad always did everything to provide,” Brice said. “They made sure we could play sports, and that meant we were always on the road. We all played multiple sports and my dad was working, so she was the one who would take us around everywhere.

“She sacrificed a lot just to make sure we could play sports. I definitely wouldn't be here without either of my parents.”

You think it’s hard for a hitter to keep up with Jacob Misiorowski when he’s throwing 103-plus mph?

Try chasing the statistics while he’s rewriting the Statcast record book.

MLB.com’s Sarah Langs and our other numbers gurus stayed busy while Misiorowski blazed his way through six incredible innings of Friday’s 6-0 win over the Yankees, topping out at 103.6 mph and setting all kinds of records for a starting pitcher in the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008.

For all of those details, you’ll have to check our story on Brewers.com. Everyone was in awe.

“I’ve never seen pitches that hard in my life,” said Yankees designated hitter Spencer Jones, New York’s No. 6 prospect making his Major League debut. “To foul off a couple is pretty great, so I’ll take that for now.” 

Said Brewers rookie Shane Drohan, who followed Misiorowski’s six scoreless innings with three more to earn his first career save: “It’s hard to believe you’re going to see something you possibly haven't, with how much baseball we play. But when he’s on the mound, it’s possible.”

And 103.0 mph in the fifth inning followed by 102.7 mph in the sixth, Drohan said, certainly qualified as something he had not seen before.

No one had. 

Not since Statcast started tracking.

“I kept looking up at the velo after every pitch as he got deep,” Brewers right fielder Sal Frelick said. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Misiorowski’s night began with a different kind of thrill when Hall of Famer CC Sabathia came for a visit, and we have that story covered on Brewers.com as well.

Sabathia, it turns out, is a big fan.

“I love Misiorowski,” said Sabathia. “I think he’s going to be a great pitcher. Honestly, he reminds me of myself as a young pitcher.”

How so?

“Sometimes he can get erratic and things get weird,” Sabathia said. “But he just needs to trust throwing the ball over the plate, because he’s that good.

“It’s a lot of moving parts. He’s got a lot going on, same as me. The biggest thing I was able to do was just simplify my delivery to be able to deliver strikes. When he gets in trouble, it’s usually because he’s not throwing strikes.”

Misiorowski threw plenty of strikes on Friday night.

You look for small silver linings when you’re on the injured list. For Brandon Woodruff, one of those was getting to be home in Mississippi on Friday morning for his daughter’s graduation from kindergarten. 

He was back with the Brewers by the afternoon, confident that he would soon be back on track after undergoing a minor procedure in Dallas earlier in the week to aspirate a cyst within his surgically repaired right shoulder. The belief is that the cyst, which is very common for all pitchers, and usually benign, had grown to the point where it caused the velocity drop in his last start against the D-backs that preceded a trip to the injured list. 

Woodruff will resume playing catch on Saturday. 

“Everything else was great. Everything checked out ‘money,’” Woodruff said. 

He will still have to throw a bullpen session and face hitters before determining a timeline back to the mound.

Quinn Priester was similarly upbeat as he continued a pause in his comeback from thoracic outlet syndrome. The Brewers cut short his rehab assignment last weekend, but he threw a 25-pitch bullpen on Friday and he expects to face hitters on Monday. 

"I wanted to work on things and take a step back and really recover to a spot where we can hit the ground running next time out," Priester said. 

As a reminder, the latest injury updates and roster moves are in our running story on Brewers.com.

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