Excited murmurs rippled through blue-clad sections of the sellout crowd at Camelback Ranch Friday when the scoreboard displayed a 98 after a Yu Darvish fastball. He’s averaged 93-94 mph over the course of his career, which means he can flash upper 90’s, but getting within kissing distance of triple digits?
“I think there’s something wrong with the speed gun,” Darvish quipped after the game.
Even if the gun was running a little hot, the big righty was clearly cutting loose some pretty serious heat of his own. From the looks of it, the breaking stuff was working pretty well too.