Every morning we review 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 this weekend to see if it will be in contention for the GIF of the First Half Contest. Did we miss your favorite pitch? Send us a tweet next time @PitcherList and we'll GIF it up + give you a shoutout here in the article.
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Noah Syndergaard's Sliders - There are few pitches quite as devastating as a slider in on the hands. When that slider is 93 miles per hour and belongs to a guy like Syndergaard, who also possesses a 100 mile per hour heater, well there's a reason it sits atop our Nastiest Pitches from Opening Day.
I love Jeffress’ pitch because of the humor behind it. Him strutting away knowing he just threw a nasty heater, and look at the catcher after he catches it xD, Austin Hedges looks back like “Where tf is the ball?” and the catcher’s just like “Right here buddy” holding it. Too funny.
Kluber isn’t a choice in the poll!
Shoot – we had some technical issues with the poll so I’m sure that’s why. I’ll talk to Nick – thanks!
How the heck is Sevy in last place here?
Jeffress wins for the strut.