Game One started out hot. On the mound for Milwaukee was Misiorowski, a beanstalk of a pitcher whose fastball routinely exceeds a hundred and three miles per hour. In the regular season, he led the league in strikeouts and earned-run average, but he had recently shown signs of fallibility, struggling in the playoffs against the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers, his fastball noticeably less crisp than usual. Early on, the Rays tested him.