The Yankees spent Game 1 of the ALDS doing what every playoff team secretly fears: standing around and hoping the other guy’s arm gets tired before history happens. Drew Rasmussen apparently declined to get the memo. The Rays right-hander took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and finished with eight scoreless frames of one-hit baseball as Tampa Bay squeezed out a 1-0 win that felt less like a ballgame and more like a trapdoor opening beneath the Bronx.

The whole thing had the energy of a pitcher video game set to rookie difficulty, except Rasmussen was the one in control and the Yankees were just trying to locate the exit. Austin Wells finally broke up the no-hitter with two outs in the eighth, but even that came with a catch: he got thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple, which is the baseball equivalent of finally finding your car keys and immediately tossing them into a storm drain. Tampa Bay got the only run it needed, the Yankees got a harsh reminder that October does not care about reputation, and the Rays opened the series looking like they had summoned a postseason ace and a very stern sense of humor at the same time.

Jacob Misiorowski has now turned October baseball into a public safety demonstration.

The Brewers right-hander opened Game 1 of the NLDS against the Padres by firing a 104.8 mph fastball to Fernando Tatis Jr., which MLB and Yahoo Sports identified as the fastest postseason pitch ever tracked in the Statcast era. If that number felt fake, the next one — 104.6 mph — was apparently just Misiorowski’s way of saying he had more than one setting on the remote control. For those keeping score at home, the previous postseason record belonged to Mason Miller at 104.5 mph. In other words, Milwaukee’s ace didn’t just break the record. He challenged it to a duel, then won by a clear lane.

The truly ridiculous part is that this is somehow on brand. Misiorowski already owns the record for the fastest pitch by a starting pitcher, and he kept Padres hitters in the sort of immediate emotional distress usually reserved for extra innings and bad bullpen management. San Diego did manage to make him work, foul off pitches, and scratch out a couple runs, but the larger message was impossible to miss: when this guy is locked in, the radar gun looks like it’s trying to impress somebody. The Brewers may have a lot to like in this series, but the scariest thing in October might be a 6-foot-7 starter who throws the baseball like he’s late for a connecting flight.

The Milwaukee Brewers discovered a brand-new postseason weapon on Saturday night: structural engineering. In the ninth inning of Game 1 of the NLDS, Padres first baseman Ty France launched a ball that looked like it might sneak out and become the loudest complaint in Wisconsin. Instead, it found the ceiling at American Family Field, bounced off the roof area in fair territory, and turned into the kind of out that makes everyone in the ballpark stare at each other like they’ve just been told the scoreboard runs on moonlight and bad intentions.

After replay upheld the call, the ball stayed live and Jackson Chourio made the catch, which is exactly the sort of thing that makes October baseball feel like a chaos seminar. The Padres challenged, the Brewers survived, and somewhere a rulebook got dragged into the spotlight like a reluctant relief pitcher. It was the perfect postseason moment: one team thinking it had a go-ahead blast, the other team getting rescued by the building itself. If you’re looking for a lesson here, it’s simple — in Milwaukee, you don’t just have to beat nine defenders. You may also have to beat the roof.