ARLINGTON, Texas — The win-clinching pitch hurdled toward home plate faster than any in recent Texas Rangers history.
Aroldis Chapman’s 102.5 mile-per-hour sinker — the hardest-thrown pitch by a Rangers pitcher in the StatCast era (2015) — elicited a swinging strikeout from Cleveland Guardians No. 8 hitter Myles Straw, the third out in the ninth inning of Saturday’s game at Globe Life Field and a 2-0 Rangers win.
It was fast. Very fast.
