Dodgers' Edgardo Henriquez Fires 103.6 mph Record Strikeout Pitch in 2-1 Loss

Q: Despite throwing a historic 103.6 mph strikeout pitch, why did Edgardo Henriquez's milestone night ultimately end in a devastating Dodgers loss?

Henriquez’s record-setting pitch ended up as a footnote because the Dodgers lost another 2-1 one-run game on a walk-off in the ninth after their offense again failed to give the pitching staff enough support. His 103.6 mph called third strike to Dillon Dingler was a historic moment and he followed it with a scoreless eighth inning, but Los Angeles scored only once all night. The Dodgers managed just one hit in six at-bats with runners in scoring position, stranded the bases loaded in the sixth, and left Teoscar Hernández’s potential go-ahead drive on the warning track in the top of the ninth. Comerica Park kept that ball in play, and Javier Báez ran it down. That left no margin for error in the bottom of the ninth. Báez then sparked Detroit’s winning rally with a leadoff double, moved to third on Max Clark’s sacrifice bunt, and after Jack Dreyer intentionally walked Gleyber Torres, he unintentionally walked Hao-Yu Lee to load the bases. Kevin McGonigle then delivered the decisive hit, a deep fly to left-center that bounced into the Dodgers bullpen and was ruled a walk-off single because the winning run was already on third. So while Henriquez supplied the game’s most electric individual highlight, the Dodgers’ persistent late-season problem — weak run production in tight games — turned his milestone night into a frustrating loss.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 30

Edgardo Henriquez froze Detroit catcher Dillon Dingler with a 103.6 mph front-door sinker for a called third strike in the eighth inning, the fastest strikeout pitch by a Dodgers pitcher since MLB tracking began in 2008.
Statcast measured the sinker at 103.6 mph and 2,439 rpm; the pitch matched Henriquez's career-best velocity, first reached June 2 against Arizona.
The 24-year-old already owns 14 of the Dodgers' 16 fastest recorded strikeout pitches and 22 of their fastest pitches overall, underscoring how routine triple-digit velocity has become for him.
Baseball Savant lists Henriquez's average sinker at 100.8 mph and his four-seam fastball at 100.5 mph this season, after he tied Jonathan Broxton's Dodgers-era tracked mark with a 103.3 mph fastball last August.
The milestone came in an otherwise difficult night for Los Angeles, which lost 2-1 to Detroit before Sunday's series-deciding game at Comerica Park.

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