{"id":30473,"date":"2024-08-04T03:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T08:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30473"},"modified":"2024-08-04T03:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T08:12:28","slug":"ben-joyce-throws-mlbs-fastest-pitch-in-angels-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30473","title":{"rendered":"Ben Joyce throws MLB’s fastest pitch in Angels’ victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels<\/a> pitcher Ben Joyce<\/a> retired all four hitters he faced in 1\u2153 innings for his first big league save, and concluded the effort with a 104.7 mile per hour fastball, the fastest pitch in the majors this season, during his club’s 5-4 win<\/a> over the New York Mets<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hard-throwing right-hander struck out J.D. Martinez<\/a> for the final out. According to ESPN Stats & Information, it was the hardest pitch thrown to strike a batter out in the pitch-tracking era, which dates back to 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was hard, I’ve never seen a fastball like that,” Martinez said. “That’s the fastest fastball I’ve ever faced.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martinez, who hit his second grand slam in eight games in the loss, took it in stride, though, and had fun with it in his postgame media availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He threw it, I laughed,” he said. “After he struck me out, I was kind of smiling. I was like ‘Whoa.’ I had to look up at the radar, and said, ‘That was different.’ But kudos to him. He throws hard, and comes right at you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce has a 23-inning scoreless streak and has not allowed a run in 18 straight outings since June 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was a different level there,” he said of the record pitch. “It was an 0-2 pitch. Just try to let it eat and ended up getting a good result.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zach Neto<\/a> drove in a career-high four runs, including three with the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning for the Angels as they rallied for the win. Neto connected on a cutter from Huascar Brazoban<\/a> (1-3) and put it in the Mets’ bullpen in left field to put the Angels back on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Stefanic<\/a> started the rally with a two-out base hit and Nolan Schanuel<\/a> drew a walk to set the table for Neto’s team-leading 17th homer of the season. Neto also had an RBI single in the fifth inning as the Angels snapped a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Moore<\/a> (5-2) notched the win as the Angels overcame Martinez’s 10th career grand slam. He also hit one on July 26 against Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mets’ designated hitter is batting .333 (12-for-36) with 11 RBIs in his past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ben Joyce retired all four hitters he faced in 1\u2153 innings for his first big league save, and concluded the effort with a 104.7 mile per hour fastball, the fastest pitch in the majors this season, during his club’s 5-4 win over the New York Mets on Saturday night. The hard-throwing right-hander struck out J.D. Martinez for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[10254,29914],"class_list":["post-30473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-angels","tag-ben-joyce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30475,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions\/30475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}