Through the playoffs, we'll be featuring the nastiest pitches from the previous day's games in glorious HD GIFs. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite pitch and check back after each round to see if it will be in contention for the GIF of the Second Half Contest. 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.
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Masahiro Tanaka's Splitter - Tanaka finally got his revenge against the Astros and Dallas Keuchel, crusing through seven frames of shutout baseball. His biggest pitch of the night came in the fifth innings, fanning Josh Reddick with two runners on via a nasty Splitter that dove off the plate. It's hard not to love Tanaka's emotion jumping off the mound after getting the big whiff.
Tanaka’s the right answer, no matter what the poll says.