Elly De La Cruz can throw the ball harder than anyone.
and added a leadoff home run during the Cincinnati Reds ' 5-2 win over the San Diego Padres on Monday. He also may have thrown a baseball harder than anyone has ever thrown a baseball in a Major League Baseball game., Statcast clocked a ninth inning De La Cruz throw at 106.9 miles per hour. Here's video of that throw, which was literally too hot to handle as first baseman Jeimer Candelario couldn't even get his glove up in time to catch the ball.
Statcast says this throw by Elly De La Cruz was 106.9 mph. If true that would be the fastest throw in MLB history.Sure, the throw resulted in an error and kept the Padres' hopes alive, but it was undeniably awesome. The previous record belonged to Colorado Rockies outfielder Brenton Doyle. Last fall he was
The stat has only been tracked since 2015, which means there is a little more than a century's worth of data unaccounted for. On the other hand we've got about a decade of tracking the biggest and strongest athletes to ever play the game and no one has ever done that before, so it's still pretty impressive.territory as he's the first player since 1901 to have at least eight home runs and 17 stolen bases in the month of April.
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