Somebody in Fox's production truck stage-managed a bit to make Ken Rosenthal look like a garden gnome standing next to Jacob Misiorowski. That's the theory going around after Friday night's postgame interview, and it's nonsense.
Misiorowski is 6-foot-7. He's been 6-foot-7 all season, through a one-hit, 15-strikeout night that made him famous and right up through his Game 1 start in a World Series the Brewers won 3-2 over the Rays. Rosenthal is a normal-sized man who's interviewed basically every tall pitcher in baseball for two decades. Put those two people next to each other and a microphone and you get exactly the picture everyone screenshotted. It's just geometry.
No outlet and no leaked production memo have come forward to say Fox built a visual gag around Rosenthal's height. If a network had actually rigged a shot to humiliate its own reporter on the biggest broadcast of the year, somebody would have talked by now. Nobody has. The silence just means there was never a story here. The audience wanted a punchline and decided a real, boring physical mismatch needed a villain behind the camera. It didn't.
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What actually happened on camera has nothing to do with inches. Misiorowski stood there and said the quiet part himself: "I thought Coop had him, and obviously I was wrong," he told Rosenthal, addressing the double play that looked like it had ended the game before a replay review put it back in play. That's a pitcher being direct about a bizarre sequence in the middle of the biggest night of his life. There was no gotcha needed. He gave it up willingly.
If you want to be annoyed at Rosenthal, be annoyed at the right thing. This isn't the first time he's become the center of attention during a moment that belonged entirely to the Brewers. During the 2025 All-Star Game, his in-game interview with Misiorowski went sideways badly enough that Eric Hosmer publicly ripped him, saying it was "disgusting" that reporters still get dugout access during games. After a separate Brewers walk-off, Rosenthal collided with a team photographer scrambling to get out of the celebration, looked furious about it on camera, and later had to apologize for how he reacted. Those are real, documented moments where Rosenthal became the story on a night that belonged to the team that had just won.
That's the pattern worth dragging him for: a guy who keeps finding ways to put himself in the frame during somebody else's celebration. Standing next to a tall pitcher and getting outsized by several inches just proves Misiorowski is enormous. Getting photographed looking furious at a Brewers employee, or turning an in-game interview into a controversy Hosmer felt compelled to call out by name, is a choice, and it's one Rosenthal has made more than once.
The Brewers lead this series 1-0 with six games possibly left to play, and whatever happens from here, Rosenthal will be back on the field asking more questions. Point the heat at the reporter who keeps making himself the headline. Leave the tape measure out of it.
