LOS ANGELES — With the tying run on base in the eighth inning on Sunday’s 100-degree afternoon, Dodgers reliever Michael Kopech reared back and fired an equally hot 101 mph fastball above the zone.
In an era where pitchers are throwing more breaking balls than ever, Cam Schlittler of the New York Yankees is dominating ...
PHOENIX – Take a seat, class. Eric Lauer, wavy hair sweeping across his forehead and Starbucks cup in his hand, has gone into professor mode on a slow Arizona morning. The subject? Zoomology 101. “The ...
OAKLAND — Justin Steele doesn’t have a triple-digit fastball. He never made a top-100 prospects list. He gets very little national love, and you’ll never see his name on lists of the best pitchers in ...
Japan beat Mexico in a thrilling World Baseball Classic semifinal game Monday night that was decided by a two-run double in the bottom of the ninth by Munetaka Murakami, which sent the stadium into ...
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Edwin Díaz reviewed fastball after Mariners’ success in first appearance off injured list
Edwin Díaz made his first appearance since April 19 for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday, recording the save in their 4-2 ...
The 2024 MLB season is officially back, and so is Ump Cam. And on Wednesday, with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres playing in South Korea on ESPN, we got the Ump Cam view of a 95 MPH ...
A year ago, I used some of the under-the-hood data we now have on college players to explore fastball quality for top college starters in the 2024 class. It was a fun, and hopefully informative, ...
It is easy to get too cute when thinking about pitching. For all the attention given Masahiro Tankaka’s splitter and Jose Fernandez’s curveball and Stephen Strasburg’s change up, there is no ...
Imanaga throws his four-seam fastball at below league-average velocity, yet he’s still one of the most difficult starting pitchers a hitter can face. Among all the pitches thrown by all the pitchers ...
Note: This story was originally published on May 25, 2023. Identifying pitches without the help of TrackMan, Hawk-Eye or other ball-tracking devices is as much an art as it is science. Baseball ...
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