Elevated fastball? No kidding.
Just when you thought baseball couldn’t cook up another new stat, now comes word that 6-foot-4 Orioles slugger Mark Trumbo tomahawked a pitch that was 4.62 feet above the ground for a home run — an all-time high, so to speak, since Statcast started its pitch-tracking era in 2008.
Headlines
• At TheKicker.com: “Emilio Estevez getting tired of congratulatory phone calls about Ducks.”
• At TheOnion.com: “Pregnant Serena Williams excited to feel her baby grunt.”