"In the ninth stage the seeker reaches the point when all his acts are unselfish, done without desire." - Martin Luther King, Jr. on the ninth stage of ten in the of the progress of the Bodhisattva toward enlightenment. Also known as "cloud nine".
Fifty-nine of the 106 pitches Max Scherzer threw to the Pittsburgh Pirates in Saturday's no-hitter in Nationals Park were fastballs. He averaged 94.7 mph with his four-seamer, dialed it up to 97.7 mph and threw it for strikes 81.4% of the time.
"They were very aggressive today," Scherzer told reporters after it was over.