00:00When the pitcher's mound was set at precisely 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate, the game
00:23of baseball was set in perfect balance, a showdown between the fastest it's humanly
00:28possible to throw a ball and the fastest it's humanly possible to react to it, a primal
00:34battle between a man with a stick and a man with a rock.
00:45There is this powerful desire for every baseball fan to know who threw the fastest pitch.
00:51A 100-mile-an-hour fastball reaches the plate faster than the blink of an eye.
00:58Electric stuff explodes at the plate.
01:01Every scout is on the hunt for the fastball.
01:04That premium electric fastball is a holy grail.
01:12You can definitely hear a fastball.
01:13It sounds like trouble is what it sounds like.
01:16Intimidation is a tool that you can use.
01:19It's the law of the jungle.
01:21You either eat or you get eaten.
01:22There's no chance!
01:24Some people get scared.
01:25They start shaking and stuff.
01:26You can tell.
01:27They don't want to hold it back.
01:28If you're facing someone with some control problems, it can be a very troubling experience.
01:33I could have got hit in the head and died at home plate.
01:36The fastest fastball that I ever saw was.
01:44You're not going to have that many moments in your life where you're going to see the
01:48edge of human performance meeting the edge of human performance.
01:53That's what baseball's been for 120 years.
01:55I'm going to throw the ball as hard as I can, and let's see if you can get it.
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