Mason Miller was fresh off the MLB draft, a newly minted third-round pick for the Athletics. Aroldis Chapman was still an unheralded teenager who had yet to defect from Cuba. Seth Hernandez was a rising high school senior in California. And Jacob Misiorowski was pitching in the Junior College World Series.
Individually, they were at different points in their lives. Collectively in these moments, though, they all shared the same experience: their first time reaching 100 miles per hour (161 kilometers per hour)?on a pitching mound.
“Whoa,” Hernandez recalled thinking, as triple digits flashed across the board.
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