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Red Sox: Joe Kelly throws fastest pitch of 2017 season

Two outs, bottom of the seventh inning with the Boston Red Sox clinging to a two-run lead. There’s a man in scoring position with New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge at the plate facing reliever Joe Kelly.

Power vs power.

Kelly showed the type of power his arm wields when he uncorked a fastball on a 2-2 count. Judge fouled it off to stay alive, making the pitch seem almost meaningless at first. Until you looked up at the scoreboard to see the velocity on that fastball.

The Yankee Stadium gun registered the pitch at 103 mph, while the Red Sox radar on NESN clocked it at a whopping 104 mph.