“ONE HUNDRED AND THREE! That was an angry pitch, and he dialed it up like he hasn’t dialed it up all season.”
That was Gary Cohen’s call on SNY as Edwin Diaz fired a 102.8 MPH heater right through the swing of the Dodgers’ Gavin Lux on Thursday, marking the fastest pitch of his career:
Diaz needed every bit of that, too, as he entered the eighth inning of Thursday’s game with a 5-2 lead, but his first four batters yielded a walk, a hit batter, and two deep sacrifice flies by Max Muncy and Justin Turner that scored one run and nearly cleared ‘em all.
Luckily, Brandon Nimmo caught both fly balls, so the Dodgers only got to two outs, a 5-3 deficit, and a runner on second before Diaz blew Lux away on a 1-2 pitch.
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Diaz’s average four-seam fastball velocity was 99.1 MPH entering Thursday, and his 102.8 MPH heater Thursday marked the third time he has broken his own velocity record this year – the first two of which came in the same inning, when he threw 102.2 MPH and then 102.6 MPH in the same inning against the Marlins in July.
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