Kazuhisa Makita threw a 58 mph curveball that froze Trevor Story
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There are a lot of pitches in baseball you probably know you can't hit. Noah Syndergaard's fastball? No way. Rich Hill's curveball has a ton of break, so you probably can't do much with that, either. There's a reason the people on the field are there and the rest of us aren't.
But, every so often, something happens on the field that offers a glimmer of hope that we wouldn't look completely foolish. Take this 58 mph curve Padres reliever Kazuhisa Makita threw to Trevor Story in the seventh inning of Tuesday's loss to the Rockies, 8-0:
That's a 58.1 mph pitch pretty much right in the middle of the plate. You probably think you could at least put that pitch in play, right?
That same pitch froze Story, though, so maybe it wouldn't be as easy to hit as it looked.