fastball

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Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers has a fastball that averages 99.9 mph and has topped out at 103.6.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 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

Since then, the fruits of that evolving relationship have included a new, harder splitter, and even more recently, an uptick in fastball velocity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

And there was only one pitch he ever threw: a fastball.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli