Jonathan Zaslow

There is a pitcher throwing a ball, fastballs, harder than anyone has ever thrown a baseball.

Up until the last, I'm gonna say...

Eight years, maybe nine, that pitcher on a 3-2 count, there is no circumstance under which he's throwing a breaking ball.

I'm going to say that's something that's happened maybe the last seven years.

Somebody who throws 104 miles an hour with Tatis on deck does not throw a breaking ball on a 3-2 pitch.

You guys sitting here saying you got to swing the bat when a human being is throwing a baseball harder than anyone ever does.

And you have to sit fastball on that pitcher.

If you do not, you're going to watch what you're going to have happen is he's going to throw it right down.

If you're sitting breaking ball, they're saying you just got to swing at everything.

He's going to swing a month late.

if he's sitting on breaking ball because you can't expect a breaking ball there.

Do you guys realize how much easier it is to be the critic in this spot than to be the guy who actually swings the bat at a pitch that wasn't close?

He said afterward, I knew it was a ball.

It is a ball.

It's a ball forever.

It's a ball.

I know it's a ball.

That wasn't a strike.

It wasn't a fastball.

It was a curveball.