The FASTEST pitch in LLWS history. Guess how the hitters did. 

You are correct. I did say the wrong velocity for Walter Johnson. I also couldn't, at the time, find the location where they measured his fastball, so I wasn't able to do the conversion. Since making this video, I have learned they measured a 15 foot space between 60 and 75 feet.

@@MJHBaseball you tried MJH, you tried...and that's what matters

Repent to Jesus Christ “He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28:6‬ ‭NIV‬‬ D

@@jesusislord6545 Matthew sounds like a funny man, we should get coffee sometime.

@@jesusislord6545 go get some bitches or something.

wow really good point

Still not easy to hit 83 at 46 feet.. but I agree definitely is harder to hit major league pitching. It’s impressive those kids can react at a major league level is all that metric is showing really

Right, because the speed of the pitch still dictates how long the pitch stays in the hitting zone regardless of how quickly the batter needs to initially react

An 83 mph fastball that breaks 4 inches left/right/up/down over 60 feet is also only going to break 1-2 inches over 46 feet, if at all depending on how late it breaks

Thank you finally someone who has common sense

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@@sethbruh9546 seriously that’s a fire coach

I threw 73 in Little League when I was 12. Lotta kids had a hard time hearing it when you drop a curveball at 55 60

When I pitched I didn't throw super fast, just had a ton of movement on my pitches. Guys could never really make good contact. The one game I felt amazing and knew I was throwing 5+ mph faster than I ever had before I gave up 6 runs in the first innings and took a dinger off my kneecap and had to go to the hospital. I lost all my movement when I gained that velo.

@@LemonInYourEyes yep. Speed is not every thing. My son would rather hit an 80 mph fastball than a 60 mph sinker. It is more difficult to hit pitches with crazy ball spin than high speed low spin balls.

As someone who used to play travel baseball I feel like the majority of kids who threw faster tended to have less control of there pitches

Literally every kid who could throw fast in my house league did this where they just wanted to throw hard with 0 control

I thought you were gonna say the kid blew out his pitching arm.

Repent to Jesus Christ “He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28:6‬ ‭NIV‬‬ D

And that’s why you need to teach kids not to throw hard. I could care less if I gave up a hit, but no way was I letting myself walk 6 batters a game trying to strike everyone out

With zero control to boot

That doesn't really even look like the "I'm scared face" it's more like the "let me get focused and ready face".

Nah kids are fearless bro. Probably scared he’d strike out though

@@andrayday8064 agreed

@@dallaswood4117 Exactly. His control was all over the place. I would be scared too. Getting hit in the ribs is one thing, getting hit in the head is something else

6' 1" and 215 is about perfect for a pitcher. The lanky ones who throw 102 usually need elbow surgery.

Unfortunately Alex has had to have Tommy John a few years back. Has thrown 96mph at Clemson, but has struggled with command. Also has a nasty slider.

@@andrewboyce7268 true except Randy Johnson. His knees were his only major issue he had.

I had 2 major growth spurts. In 8th grade I was 5'9" 160 lbs w/ 80mph fastball, junior year I was 5'11" 190 lbs w/ 88-90 mph FB, and at 21 I finally reached 6'1" 205 lbs w/90-93 mph FB. KEEP in mind this was the 80s/90s radar guns and pitches were clocked crossing the plate.... So you could add a couple mph's if the was clocked at the release point, like it is today...

@@andrewboyce7268 the 2 biggest factors to throw serious velo for myself were FLEXIBILITY & LOWER HALF MECHANICS. I noticed when I put on muscle, I lost a lot of flexibility and i had to "over throw" to stay around 90.... I

Normally, a good coach would not let a twelve or thirteen year old throw a curveball. It will kill his arm for some reason. Better he learn how to throw hard and straight even if he gets hit.

I have a similar story. Three years ago, I met a 12-year old kid that could throw around 80 on his fastball. A friend of mine was his coach which is how I met him. Not long ago, I ran into the same kid at a tournament. He's only throwing 85 now and batters have caught up.

​@@jackattack2608 I can attest to that.. I was the starting pitcher for a travel team. The same catcher would catch for me since little league. 12 years old and I loved throwing 4 seam, 2 seam, knuckleballs and curveballs. My curveball was fucking nasty though. Feeling of throwing multiple no hitters made me never listen. then at age 16, my shoulder already started killing with every pitch. Safe to say i couldn't play baseball anymore.

Bro same thing happened to me. I had a nasty curve growing up that would make kids duck. Got to high school ball and it got blasted. Had to decide pitching wasn't for me since I wasn't the hardest thrower to begin with.

A fastball hurts your arm more than a curveball, the curveball is said to be the least harmful pitch a player can throw

Think that cats name was kalen piventel or something. The catcher from Hawaii that year was chucking low 80s too IIRC

He threw hard but also the technology at the time couldn't film in as many frames per second back then. So there's part of the reason.

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its 10-12 thats not a bad age range

@@PassionForThePlant Yes it is. Little League should be 8-10. Then 10-12 should move up to a diamond in between a little league field and a high school field

For those of us who were middle aged, it was more to behold 35 years ago when there weren't light bats.

You don't need a curveball when you're throwing 80. 12 year olds shouldn't even be throwing curvaballs.. changeups.

LOL

I have a childhood friend who was born a week later than me. I remember when we were 13, I was playing in Babe Ruth, with major league dimensions, against 14 and 15 tear olds and he was tearing up Little League. He was hurling straight gas past 10 year olds and hitting a home run every other game. It was ridiculous. Obviously, he made the all star team and he carried them all the way to the regional, where they lost to a team from Michigan. It really wasn't good for him either because he was never really challenged. He dominated and it was mainly because he had hit puberty and was bigger and stronger than everyone else, not necessarily more talented. He went from being, hands down the best player in the entire league to not even making the high school team a year later

This always made me so mad as a kid. Our league was playing full dimensions at 12 years old. Watching kids that were supposedly much better than us play on such a small field felt like an insult.

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That’s the way it goes. Boys playing in girls sports, cheating is allowed. We’re teaching our youth cheating is ok.

I mean it’s tha rule’s

That is baseball at every single level...

This is an experiment. Google screws me over regarding comments. In the 70s, we didn't have the means to measure pitch speed but when I was 12 (the max age) in LL, but we had to have our catcher wear a leather work or garden glove with a sponge inside that, to be able to catch me. I was also pretty big and tall, towering at least a foot over all my all-star teammates' heads. I'm not trying to compete with this kid by bragging on myself, just relaying my experiences in fastball pitching. Judging by the time it took to leave my hand and get to the catcher, I can honestly say, I threw just as hard, or maybe a mph lower. I wasn't wild, but I snapped a kid's humerus in two when it hit his arm. That HAD to be one of my hardest pitches, especially since it went wide right and the humerus is a thicker bone than either the ulna or radius. ;-) -- I was a better hitter than pitcher, hitting 15 homeruns in 11 games, but I'll always be proud of my pitching too. Unfortunately, my growth spurt ended and everybody caught up in size. I pitched in Junior High School (7-9 grades and 54 ft. mound), and did pretty well, but High School was the killer of my pitching career. I just wasn't big enough for 60 foot mounds. Meh... my hitting got me a double-scholarship, so no worries. Congrats to Alex... I hope you go far!

Then I stole 2nd and third from all of those catchers because none were fast enough to get me. God I loved LL.

@@pbird5351 Cuz usually if you could throw strikes you could strike out 90% of LL hitters. I didn't throw hard at all and only threw a fastball in little league, yet had multiple no hitters and shut outs nearly every game.. because I didn't walk batters.

@HENRY X81 lol. Nah, he was throwing 98 at 18, but living in Idaho, the cold does things to you. I got him a tryout with the Braves but he had a tweak in the shoulder that he wasn't willing to get cut on (1980s versus today). He's happy with his life, isn't Uncle Rico'ing it. Would have been nice to stay in Miami and see where he may have ended up. Coaches were definitely better down there and we could play ball all year round. There are a lot of reasons why great players come out of warmer climates more often. But then again, Idaho is a beautiful state whereas Florida.....well, it's Florida. Three inch cockroaches are a bit much. Then again, I'll take a Cuban sandwich over potatoes any day of the week.

I also said he got outs with his slider. They probably never saw a good slider in their baseball lives until then. It was really a good pitch. But they timed him up pretty well.

Can I ask - does a pitcher look at the glove the whole time? where does he look? thx I'm learning

@@nofurtherwest3474depends on the pitcher’s mechanics, I don’t look at the glove because I’m a sidearmer but most overhanders do

Yea was pitching to12 year olds when he was 14 so he was just lame.

I was at Williamsport in 2001 when Almonte played. It's a pity some greedy adults took advantage of the kids ruined it all for everyone, including Danny.

I'm not sure he could hit 80 when he was 17 let alone 7.

Prepare to die. I saw Bryce Harper play a USSA tournament when he was 12. He threw 82, and went 13 for 13 with 12 homers and a double.

@@bigtalk2598 I would say only 10-20 twelve year olds ever have been on that level, Lenny and Bryce are definitely 2

So you had someone timing pitches in LL in the 60's ??...Hmmmm That's when I played & I don't even recall that technology being available, & certainly not in LL.

@@safromnc8616 So, they removed my comment to you. You do understand that the speed of a baseball has been estimated with reasonable accuracy for years before the radar gun ? I can tell you, when you are standing in the batters box and an 80MPH pitch comes in, you know it pal...

no 12-13 year old has ever thrown 90,

Or those guys were freaks. I don't believe most of the pitchers of those eras threw that hard like that though.

That catcher dropped every pitch and could barely block

I would have stole a base from him on every loose ball. I'd be feeling pretty comfortable getting to 3rd if I got on 1st.

85 plus when you're 16 is not crazy at all

Sweet

I think that there are organizations where the 11-12 year olds play on a 50/70 diamond, and 13-14 play on 54/80.

He was good. But I'd have to say Maddux was the ultimate. Surgical. He had so many pitches and could put them wherever he wanted, every single time.

Where does it say how fast he pitched?

'Glory Days' LMAO what round were you selected in the draft ?

I dunno, I was a kid. I had a coach that liked me and I always seemed to end up on his team.. *shrug*