Some people argued the Tigers pitchers should not have thrown Cruz so many fastballs.
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The Fed may be throwing fastballs, but the wind is blowing out, and toward right field.
When it was Harvey's turn to toe the rubber, he came out firing fastballs clocked at 96-98 mph.
They had to respect it, and I threw enough fastballs in there for strikes to keep them off balance.
After days of food, festivals and fastballs, it will be a long nine months before the city heats up again.
When Aroldis Chapman pitched for the Cincinnati Reds in September 2010 he electrified crowds with fastballs reaching 105 miles per hour.
Youkilis took part in his first workout with the New York Yankees on Thursday and addressed past feuding with Chamberlain over tight fastballs.
As a pitcher in the annual celebrity softball game in tony Sag Harbor, New York, Zuckerman throws fastballs while others just lob them in.
The 6-foot-7 Dominican native will never again be able to unleash biting 97 mph fastballs without knowing how precious and rare that ability is.
That's why Major League Baseball pitchers earn so much more than triple-A players, despite throwing fastballs only a couple of miles an hour faster.
Those amazing years of 60-plus home runs (and 98 mph fastballs by middle-aged Roger Clemens) changed the pleasure of watching baseball from sublime to sensational.
Garcia pitched to an unsightly 12.51 ERA in four ugly starts this season, and no team seemed fooled by his mid-80s fastballs and array of secondary pitches.
Girardi said Price had no-hit stuff, and Yankee batters reported that he was attacking them with off-speed pitches rather than firing 97-mph fastballs as he usually does.
Too many Chamberlain fastballs have planted Youkilis in the dirt, and Youkilis, the longtime Boston Red Sox, has repeatedly and publicly stated it is intentional and personal.
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The two had feuded in the past over high-and-tight fastballs.
That perfect storm of talent and timing has churned out a unique action sports star, a global celebrity who ranks among the athletes that rely on fastballs and slam dunks.
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But most troubling for owners is the risk they need to take on pitchers, where the strain of uncorking 90-plus mile per hour fastballs greatly increases the propensity for injury compared to everyday players.
Similarly, transport Joe DiMaggio a few decades into the future and his record 56-game hitting streak would have to be accomplished pitted against better defenses, fresh relief pitchers at the end of games, harder fastballs, slicker sliders and increased baseball knowledge.
So while the other Yankee starters will be grooving fastballs down the middle and working on their changeups in these meaningless spring games, Hughes will be firing bullets, trying to show that his arm has the power and menace it held in 2009 and 2010.
The man can reel off 98 mile-per-hour fastballs at the letters at will when he's in a tight spot, and so watching him nick corners and change speeds is like watching Carmelo Anthony pass and set picks: not what you're paying for and totally beside the point.
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