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According to the Guinness Book of Records, a former record holder for fastest pitch is Nolan Ryan, with a pitch clocked at 100.9 mph (162.4 km/h) in 1974, though several pitchers have recorded faster pitches since then.
On August 3, during a game against the New York Mets, Joyce struck out J. D. Martinez on a 104.7-mile-per-hour (168.5 km/h) fastball to get his first-ever save. It was the fastest strike-out pitch to be thrown in MLB since at least 2008, [ 25 ] and the sixth-fastest pitch thrown since 2009. [ 26 ]
Only reliever Aroldis Chapman has thrown faster pitches, touching 105.8 mph in 2010 and 105.7 mph in 2016. Ben Joyce's 105.5 MPH pitch is the fastest strikeout pitch in the pitch-tracking era ...
Numbers from 110 to 115 mph have been thrown out there. Sam McDowell delivered the forward to the book "Dalko" and said Dalkowski threw the fastest pitch he had ever seen.
His fastest pitch of 2018 was 104.4 miles an hour, second-best in MLB only to pitches by Jordan Hicks. [38] His sinker had the highest average speed of any MLB pitcher's pitches in 2018, at 100.9 mph. [38] In 2018, he had the lowest swing rate for his in-strike-zone sliders of any pitcher in baseball (42.5%). [55]
Only Aroldis Chapman, with pitches of 105.8 mph and 105.7 mph, has thrown the ball harder off the mound. The broadcast radar gun showed Joyce's velocity as 106 mph. The pitch is the fastest ...
The fastest pitch officially recognized by MLB was a 105.8 mph four-seam fastball thrown by Aroldis Chapman on September 24, 2010. [14] Since the mid-2000s, MLB has observed a significant increase in fastball velocity among pitchers. In 2008, the average four-seam fastball velocity in the MLB was below 92 mph.
A look at social media reaction to Ben Joyce throwing 105.5 mph, the fastest pitch in college baseball history.