fastball

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Woodruff has thrown a 100 mph fastball exactly once in his career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Technological limitations make it impossible to ascertain precisely where Misiorowski ranks in the pantheon of baseball’s great fastball artists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Then he threw a fastball down and in to Marte, who managed to get the barrel of his bat to it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

His fastball averaged 95.9 mph, a season high and 1.7 mph above his average.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

The baseball team was in the middle of a winning streak where he’d pitched two no hitters and his fastball was coming in consistently at eighty-nine mph.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson