ATLANTA — Seven days ago, Jacob Misiorowski was really only known by the most diehard of baseball fans.
And even then, he was far from any sort of household commodity.
“I don’t even know who I’m pitching against,” future Hall of Fame Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw said last week, a day before squaring off against the Milwaukee Brewers rookie phenom who had made only four career starts prior.
“Is that the guy who twisted his ankle on the mound, the ‘Twisted-His-Ankle’ guy?” Kershaw added, able only to recall a widely shared clip of Misiorowski having to exit his MLB debut a month earlier amid five hitless innings after turning his on the downslope of the hill.