Whats The Fastest Pitch Ever Thrown In Major League Baseball?
At the Minnesota Twins Metrodome on july 3rd 2009, the Detroit Tigers Joel Zumaya threw a pitch that was registered at 105. It was in the bottom of the 10th inning i believe (although it may have been the bottom of the 11th, the innings tend to blend into each other in a 16 inning game). It has yet to be “officially” verified (and thus placed among the record books). He registered 1 other pitch at 104 and several more at 103. I personally watched the game and as a Tigers fan, have seen him pitch in about 85% of his games. On a side note, I was at the TIgers-Astros game on 06-27-06 when Zumaya threw 103 in the top of the 8th 3 times. Interestingly, Roger “The Rocket” Clemens started for Astros, and hit 97 mph once, but that pitch looked like a change up in comparison to Zumaya’s fastballs. Seeing a fast pitch on TV does NO justice to witnessing that speed in person. It should be noted though that the Metrodome is one of the the most notorious fields for the ball moving significantly qui
