As my Red Reporter colleague Derek Grimes said in our Slack room mid-game, Luis Castillo owns “some of the most effortless 98 mph heat I’ve ever seen.”
Right on, Grimey. Right on.
On perhaps the biggest baseball stage on which the Cincinnati Reds have played all season, Castillo was simply excellent. Superlative. Electric, ‘and thrilling,’ as John Sadak opined on the broadcast. He tossed an even 100 pitches on the night against the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park, and only one of them was turned around for a hit - a single by Rafael Devers.
That was it.