(1) Then Kelly misses again, 3-2 now...Drew swings through a fastball, strike three!
(2) Nothing doing for Marte who can do nothing with an inside fastball - that's four strikeouts now for Wainwright - at least Marte saw 12 pitches, but that's small consolation down seven runs.
(3) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
(4) 1.05am BST Jake Peavy Dave Leese (@dl_1009) @Busfield @LengelDavid I especially like watching a pitcher who's been declared legally blind, have a go at hitting a 90mph fastball October 26, 2013 Yes, the Sox starter is legally blind without corrective lenses.
(5) On 2-2, Fielders swings and misses on a high fastball to strike out.
(6) 1.17am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, bottom of 1st Lance Lynn pus a 1-0 fastball right in the wheelhouse but Carl Crawford can only lift it to center field - John Jay is waiting, and has it, which, by the way is no longer a foregone conclusion following his dismal performance last night.
(7) That doesn't keep Nolasco from being aggresive however, and he uses his fastball to get yet another strikeout, one of the 93MPH variety.
(8) @LengelDavid October 29, 2013 1.48am GMT Red Sox 1 - Cardinals 1, top of 6th Wainwright pounds the strike zone, fastball up and in so the count stays at 2-2.
(9) The triceps, flexor carpi radialis, and pronator teres all showed less activity in the injured pitchers during the fastball, but only the triceps had less activity during the curveball.
(10) It's a low fastball that Adams lets go - he's upset, Molina pops out of the dugout to make sure he's not ejected by the umpire for arguing balls and strikes, and that's the inning.
(11) Gomes chops the next three foul to stay alive, the third pitch a 95mph fastball, but Wacha wins the battle by getting him to pop up to centerfield.
(12) 12.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, top of the 1st Dustin Pedroia is up next, he falls behind 1-2, strikes out on a fastball and it's a 1-2-3 inning for Lance Lynn.
(13) Smith just fouls off a fastball to stay alive and then grounds to Peralta and Verlander's working on something special here.
(14) 2.01am BST Tigers 0 - A's 0, bottom of the 3rd Stephen Vogt works a full count but it is for naught, as Verlander blows a fastball by him to make him his fifth strikeout victim.
(15) Kinsler at the plate and he gets jammed by a Price fastball but manages to muscle one just beyond the reach of the second baseman Zobrist who was pursuing the pop in right field - Gentry comes home and the Rangers have an important run back.
(16) 1.37am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of 1st Max Scherzer deals a fastball which flies harmlessly over the swinging bat of David Ortiz, and Big Papi becomes the second back in the back-to-back Scherzer strikeouts, ending yet another scoreless inning for Boston.
(17) Tigers 2 - A's 0, top of the 4th And THERE Miguel Cabrera has found his power stroke, he hits a home run on an elevated Gray fastball to straightaway leftfield for his first extra-base hit of the series!
(18) Physics experiments confirm that many reported trajectories are possible, but not the rising fastball.
(19) Nick Punto works a full count off of Michael Wacha before he strikes out on a high fastball, because he is Nick Punto, 9.43pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd Jon Jay is up next for the the Cardinals, Kershaw gets him to ground out to Mark Ellis and that's six gone after that lead-off triple.
(20) Hanley is hit by a Kelly fastball, one that smarted, or at least seemed to.
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