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
Woodruff has thrown a 100 mph fastball exactly once in his career.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
He used his fastball to get to two strikes, too, catching Marsh off guard with, as Wrobleski put it, “a modified, slide-step, out-of-the-windup fastball” off the plate.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
She catches it no problem and zips me a hard fastball.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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