Tom Krasovic: Matchup between Mason Miller, ‘The Miz’ will have to wait until October

It’s a shame that when the Padres and Brewers meet three times this week, this galactic showdown won’t happen:

The Padres send out their pitcher whose fastball looks like a “Star Wars” laser.

The Brewers answer with their pitcher whose fastball also looks like a “Star Wars” laser.

Who could forget seeing Mason Miller and Jacob Misiorowski, “The Reaper” and “The Miz,” squaring off in the East Village, authoring a supersonic matchup, each catcher opting for an asbestos mitt?

“It’d be cool,” said Misiorowski, the Brewers’ ace, adding that he enjoyed pitching opposite Pirates flamethrower Paul Skenes.

“Wow,” said former Padres World Series catcher Carlos Hernandez, adding that he’d like to catch each righty’s triple-digit fastballs and wipeout sliders.

As the home pitcher, Miller would begin this celestial smoke show.

The Padres closer’s fastball has clocked as fast as 104.5 mph; his fastball averages 101.5 mph, best in the big leagues.

As a starter, “The Miz” cooks at 100.6 mph, and in a recent game, his first pitch registered 105.5.

At 67 years old, Brewers manager Pat Murphy has seen a few power pitchers in his day.

A Miller-Miz duel would be something else, he agreed.

“You won’t see it” this week, he said, “unless you want me to bring him into relief tonight or tomorrow.”

I’d be fine with it. Padres hitters might not.

“The Miz” shut them out in May for seven innings, leading to a Padres defeat in Milwaukee.

Padres buzzkill Craig Stammen didn’t warm to the notion of having Miller start a game just for entertainment’s sake, saying he’ll stick with having baseball’s best closer finish off games, thank you very much.

In a nod to the Miller-Miz duel’s entertainment value, Stammen did get off a good line.

“Are you not entertained?” the manager hollered, doing a fine Russell Crowe/Maximus in “Gladiator.”

Miller and Misiorowski, for their parts, find entertainment in watching the other pitch.

“We all appreciate some of the best pitchers in the game, and he’s certainly been that this year,” Miller, 27, said of fellow All-Star Misiorowski, 24. “The velocity is exciting, but just everything else that he’s doing, the success he’s having — that’s more what carries the admiration in this game.

Miller marveled about the 6-foot-7, 201-pounder, who ranks first among qualified big leaguers in ERA (1.76), strikeouts (204), WHIP (0.737) and adjusted ERA (better than the league average by 135%).

“He’s very blessed, very blessed, for sure,” Miller said. “We should sit back and watch.”

Misiorowski said he loves how Miller attacks hitters.

“He’s coming after guys, pounding the zone, trying to end games quickly,” he said of the 6-5, 200-pounder, who shows a major-best 29 saves and a 0.91 ERA in 49 innings. “We kind of have the same style, I guess.”

Murphy saw fit to single out Miller’s intangibles.

“He seems like an unbelievable cat,” he said. “Everything I hear, from pretty reliable sources, is that he’s just such the right dude and willing to do anything for the team. So, when I hear about guys like that, I pull for them.

“I know ‘Miz,’ and I see the way he’s progressed, the maturity that he’s had, and I pull for him, too, for obvious reasons.”

If Miller and Misiorowski were to square off, hitters on each team would have to cope with more than pure velocity.

“Both of them have really good sliders,” said Padres pitcher Robbie Ray, who won a Cy Young Award five years ago with the Blue Jays.

And because each tall righty lets go of the ball farther down the mound than most big leaguers do, their fastballs arrive even sooner than the velocity would imply.

Miller’s release, almost seven feet from the rubber, lands in MLB’s 81st percentile.

Misiorowski cuts loose nearly a foot farther. At 7.6 feet from the slab, his extension is unsurpassed.

Even big leaguers are awed by “The Miz.”

“When he gets down the mound, his foot is almost down by the grass; it’s down by the edge of the dirt,” Ray said. “So, not only is it 104, it’s coming at you with eight feet of extension. That’s really impressive.”

Misiorowski hasn’t pitched in the East Village and won’t pitch here this week.

The solution here?

The Padres and Brewers meet here in October.

“The Miz” starts the game. Stammen has the final say, calling upon “The Reaper.”