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Batters found the combination of extreme velocity and lack of control intimidating. Oriole Paul Blair stated that "He threw the hardest I ever saw. He was the wildest I ever saw". [12] [13] During a typical season in 1960, while pitching in the California League, Dalkowski struck out 262 batters and walked 262 in 170 innings. [3]
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
Giancarlo Stanton recorded the hardest hit batted ball, with a ground ball with a recorded 123.9-mile-per-hour (199.4 km/h) exit velocity, [22] and the then longest distance for a home run, at 504 feet (154 m), measured by Statcast. [23]
Shohei Ohtani's 50/50 ball became the most expensive ball ever auctioned off, breaking the previous record set by Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball in 1998. Here's a look at the top 10, according ...
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That was the hardest-hit ball anywhere in Major League Baseball so far this season. ... Cruz is now the first player in the Statcast era to record three hits at 115 mph or better in a single game ...
The fastest recorded serve is by Sam Groth, at 163.7 mph (263.4 km/h) at a Challenger event. His second fastest record speed, and his fastest at an ATP event, was 147 mph at Wimbledon. [1] [2] Similarly, John Isner once hit a serve recorded at 157.0 mph (253.0 km/h) in the first round of the 2016 Davis Cup.
With a homer to right-center, two doubles and three RBI Wednesday, Judge is batting .500 (9-for-18) with four doubles, two homers, six RBI and four walks over his last five games.