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03-30-2009, 10:19 AM
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| Grandpa Before My Time   Join Date: Jul 2005
Bike: 2008 Kawasaki KLR 650
Location: Dallas, Texas Directly above the center of the earth.
Posts: 11,240
|  103 mph Wow! 103 mph is faster then my KLR can go.  Have you heard of Stephen Strasburg? He is a 20 year old pitcher for San Diego State and was also on the US Olympic Baseball team. His fast ball averages 101 mph and he has thrown it as fast as 103. Only three others have done that, and all were major league relief pitchers, not juniors in college. The only pitch ever clocked faster than 103 mph was a 104.8 mph fastball by Detroit Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya on Oct. 10, 2006, in the American League Championship Series. Mark Wohlers and Matt Anderson are the only other pitchers known to have touched 103 mph on a radar gun, and each did it once. He has 74 strikeouts in 34 1/3 innings, meaning only 29 outs have come via batted ball. He fanned 23 batters in one game last year, and in seven outings with Team USA last summer, culminating with the Beijing Olympics, he struck out 62 in 41 innings. Unlike almost everything else young and fast, Strasburg is rarely wild. In 210 innings of college and international competition since 2006, he’s walked only 45 batters while striking out 316. Watching videos of him on YouTube the ball regularly is in the catcher’s mitt before the batter even swings. Here is one of his 23 strike-out game.
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