A Regular Guy Hit 96 MPH in a Speed-Pitch Booth. A Viral Video Turned Him Into a Prospect.

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How Twitter and an amateur speed-pitch booth created one of the unlikeliest professional baseball players in history

During a rain delay at a Colorado Rockies game last month, Nathan Patterson tried his luck at a speed-pitch challenge booth. The first ball he fired reached 90 mph. The next two, 94. On his sixth and final attempt, the screen behind him lit up with an even gaudier number: 96.

Patterson, a 23-year-old software salesman, had barely played organized baseball since his junior year of high school. Yet there he was, a random fan off the street, throwing harder than most major leaguers.

 

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In the real world there is “ wind”

He was already in talks with them to be signed

Yeah but he crow hops to throw can't pitch like that. We will see

A “regular guy” doesn’t throw a baseball 96 mph.

Pub stunt

There is nothing regular about throwing 96 mph...

He is gonna throw his arm out.

I wonder how his placement is.

Ya he wasn’t regular he was a pro already

Yeah. He already was in contact with a major league team before the viral video.

Lets not put the cart in front the horse

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