NEW YORK -- There he was, all 6-foot-4, 250 pounds of Aroldis Chapman, looking like the $86 million man. The fastballs were flying in at warp speed.
Whoosh! 100.5 mph! The hot-hitting Joe Mauer looked at Chapman’s first pitch for a strike.
Boom! 101 mph! Mauer foul-tipped it.
Zoom! 102 mph! Mauer swung and missed.
Chapman followed by dialing up 100.8 mph heat to force Byron Buxton to fly out to right.
Just like that -- with just four pitches -- Chapman had cleaned up setup man Dellin Betances’ bases-loaded, eighth-inning mess and began what turned out to be a five-out save.