Posted on 10/10/2022 7:06:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Andrés Muñoz of the Seattle Mariners threw a nasty 103-mile-per-hour fastball during a playoff game Friday against the Toronto Blue Jays.
The opposing batter was Toronto’s Vlad Guerrero, Jr., and even he was blown away by how fast the pitch was thrown. Guerrero could be seen shaking his head in awe at it.
Muñoz’ throw was the fastest pitch heaved during the MLB playoffs in five years, Codify reported.
The 103 mph heater was indicative of how the first game of the American League Wild Card series would wind up going. The Seattle pitching duo of Luis Castillo and Muñoz held the Blue Jays scoreless, en route to their 4-0 victory. Luis Castillo threw seven innings and notched five strikeouts before Muñoz relieved him to carry out the shutout. According to ESPN, the victory Friday was the Mariners first post-season win since 2001. (RELATED: Blake Bortles Announces His Retirement From Pro Football)
In 2022, the Blue Jays led Major League Baseball with 1,464 hits throughout the regular season. The Jays picked a bad time to go cold with their bats. Toronto faces elimination Saturday in game two of the best-of-three series if they lose again.
If Seattle puts on another pitching clinic in the second post-season game, they’ll surely advance to face the Houston Astros on Tuesday for the divisional round series.
Give ‘em the high cheese
Fastest pitch of 105.8 mph by Aroldis Chapman.
And the Yankees just left him off their post season roster for an unexcused absence from a team meeting.
When I was kid there was a retired Major League umpire that bought a small tavern where I grew up..just wanted to get away from it all. Anyway, he would come out and ump the local team games on the weekend.
He would tell of one pro team that had a couple of pitchers that could throw sky writers-thats what he called a Knuckle ball, and when the opposing batters would come up to the plate the catcher would tell them to dig their foxhole cuz they had no idea where in the hell the ball was going.
I got to meet Tony Kubek and Clete Boyer because of that ump. They came up to visit him. Never will forget that.
Gibson was in triple digits according to some YouTube doc or other that tried to standardize the measurement of fastballs.
Damn. Now I can’t remember if it was Gibson or Feller I n the doc.
Now wait one second here, Disney World has Golf courses :)
Trying like hell to remember that retired Umps name!!
GD IT!
My brother pitched a no hitter in a game he called. That ump never got to call a no hitter in his entire time major league umping, if you can believe that.
He was so excited after that game he got tickets to a Chicago White Sox and NY Yankee game in Chicago and took my dad and my brother down to watch it. Took them into the Sox locker room after to meet all the guys.
If my brother had a fast ball he told him he could have got him into the minors. It was all JUNK. He clanked when he went up to the mound.
Lots of old minor league players would play in that local team league. Those were the days...baseball was fun.
There was a retired Detroit Tiger pitcher that pitched in that league...Heller? Cant remember. He was a relief pitcher for the Tigers.
I have read that fast underhand softball pitchers can get up to 105 mph.
Eddie Feigner is reported to have pitched underhand from 104 to 114 mph....depending on the source of the reporting. Difficult to hit with softballs movement.
Nolan threw harder.
I don’t follow pro sports anymore but had to have a peek at this.
Holymoly, that was seriously rapid !!
Consider that the distance to the plate is based on where in the pitching motion the ball is released. Is the pitcher tall and leaning forward and has long arms? So if the standard distance is 60.5 feet, but the ball is released 57 feet from the plate,the calculated speed, using the longer distance, appears higher.
Now THAT’s a fastball...
BOO!
Other knuckleball pitchers: Tim Wakefield pitched on consecutive days, when most starting pitchers in the 21st century throw after four days of rest. Hoyt Wilhelm pitched until he was almost 50 and Phil Niekro used the pitch until he was 48. Wakefield retired at 45.
It's more than that. He has been horrible and he is a problem.
Hit harder, too.
I got kicked out of over-55 slow pitch softball for delivering pitches like that.
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