Every Monday we review the nastiest pitches from the previous weekends's games in glorious HD GIFs. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite pitch and check back this weekend to see if it will be in contention for the GIF of the First Half. Did we miss your favorite pitch? Send us a tweet next time @ThePitcherList and we'll GIF it up + give you a shoutout here in the article.
Congrats to Blake Treinen's Fastball for winning Nastiest Pitching GIF of the Week! It's the second week in a row the Nationals' reliever took the award and he'll be paired against himself in the opening round tomorrow morning.
Marcus Stroman's Slider - For those who watched this game, you'll know Stroman was putting on a clinic with his Slider getting absolutely absurd movement with the pitch all day. Our favorite was this mind blowing pitch to Carlos Correa that we would have swung at even if we were told it wasn't going to be a strike. Crazy. (Thanks to @julienbel8, @brendonkuhn, and @oakleyam21 for the tip!)
Was scrolling thru the gifs like…”no castillo? What? Can’t be….where…Oh…oh…there it is.”
Was thinking the same thing.. 98 mph with that movement is crazy!!