{"id":47327,"date":"2025-08-06T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:53:10","slug":"lourdes-gurriel-jr-crushes-103-9-mph-pitch-from-mason-miller-for-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47327\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourdes Gurriel Jr. crushes 103.9 mph pitch from Mason Miller for HR"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — San Diego Padres<\/a> reliever Mason Miller<\/a> was bringing the heat Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr.<\/a> returned the favor.<\/p>\n

Gurriel crushed a 103.9 mph fastball from Miller into the left-field seats for a two-run homer in the eighth inning, tying the score at 5-all. It was the hardest-hit pitch for a homer since MLB started pitch tracking in 2008.<\/p>\n

“It’s something that just happened,” Gurriel said through an interpreter. “It’s not that easy.”<\/p>\n

It was part of a two-homer night for Gurriel. The veteran also hit a two-run shot in the first inning.<\/p>\n

The hard-throwing Miller was acquired from the Athletics<\/a> at last week’s trade deadline. He routinely throws over 100 mph and hit 104.2 mph with his fastest pitch Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

“It was loud contact,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. “We know Mason Miller’s got a big arm. It’s a massive arm and he’s going to challenge you with it. Our hitter was ready.”<\/p>\n

The Padres won the game 10-5 in 11 innings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller was bringing the heat Tuesday night. Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Lourdes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-47327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}