Holy shit. That first pitch was some high ass heat. My man Nolan Ryan was cold-blooded.
@bwink23 Жыл бұрын
Nolans last pitch before his career-ending injury was 98mph. Insane
@ICU2B4UDO11 ай бұрын
Nolan was going to retire anyway...But he was an absolute rarefied bird...He was the greatest pitcher I ever saw...
@prestonschumacher13148 ай бұрын
If you watch the video of the pitch it looks like it’s 70 mph. I’m skeptical
@ICU2B4UDO8 ай бұрын
@@prestonschumacher1314 Actually the last pitch of his entire career was around 95mph in the 7th inning...
@prestonschumacher13148 ай бұрын
@@ICU2B4UDO kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZjVp3-kbNF7opYfeature=shared Fast forward to 1:06
@fazec0ld8026 ай бұрын
@@prestonschumacher1314 don’t think he’s talking about the one he made with a blown UCL- think he means the pitch before. Nolan was absolutely sitting 96-98 that game, which at 46 years old is beyond unheard of 😭
@TheSlowoldman11 ай бұрын
The first major league game I ever attended was Mr. Ryan's fourth no hitter against the Baltimore Orioles.... I was nine years old and it was Little League day June 1st, 1975. I still have the ticket. I had no idea the history I was witnessing, and I remember my dad (who was my LL coach) trying to explain to no avail, but the game did have my two all time favorite players in it, Brooks Robinson and Nolan Ryan.
@nashville89218 ай бұрын
Thanks the story TheSlow... great comment!
@juanaboynkin11967 ай бұрын
I was at that game, also. He walked the bases loaded twice and still got the no hit shutout. I went to that game with my late dad, also. I was 13 years old at the time. Fast forward and I was at the Big A with my mother when Nolan Ryan threw his 7th no hitter. Angels radio changed over to the Rangers' broadcast of the final out. Within a minute, Anaheim gave Nolan Ryan another standing ovation, despite the fact that he was in Texas at the time.
@redskinjim3 ай бұрын
I remember this on tv i was watching with my dad
@karsonmapesАй бұрын
what an unbelievable happenstance
@cwfenn Жыл бұрын
In 1991 Jim Palmer tried to come back at the age of 45 after 7 years of retirement (he was inducted into the Hall of Fame the year before). He had a good fastball in his prime and ate up lots of innings, but there would be no comeback. He threw two innings in Spring training, hurt his hamstring, and his fastball topped out at 75 mph. He couldn’t hold back time. Nolan Ryan was 44 in 1991. He still had his high-90s fastball, struck out 200 batters, had a winning record, a sub-3.00 ERA, and threw his seventh no hitter. He was a full-on power pitcher at an age that pretty much saw junkballers and knuckleballers. Old geezers are supposed to be like Jim Palmer, not Nolan Ryan, and that is what I think makes Ryan so special. Oh, and Ryan pitched until he was 46 too!
@mpojr9 ай бұрын
Nolan Ryan the greatest pitcher ever,not even Cy young Comes close
@NinetyLegos9 ай бұрын
Also when he threw a first pitch one time I think it came out to like 85-ish
@dHoll756 ай бұрын
... and no steroids for Ryan.
@rb55192 ай бұрын
No fastballer even came close in terms of longevity! Amazing!!
@JMUsher2 ай бұрын
I turned 44 this week and everyday past 40 I am more impressed with Nolan Ryan.
@spencerjsteel5 ай бұрын
Saw him beat the Reds at Riverfront in September 1988. Cinci was winding down a bad season so good seats were cheap to come by. Paid off an usher and sat with the scouts and their radar guns - the older, “slow” ones. Ryan was 41, and was 94-95 the first few innings, 96-98 midgame. Every fastball he threw in the ninth was 99. Dibble pitched in that game. Touched 97. I don’t think he lost much velo through the years, but I can only imagine what his fastball looked like in 1973-74, because I’ve never seen anyone throw as hard as Ryan did that night. Not Verlander, not Chapman. Nobody.
@LinkRocks2 ай бұрын
It wasn't just Nolan's fastball that was lethal. He also had a curve that would buckle hitter's knees. His changeup was pretty good too. Once he figured out how to pitch there was no stopping The Express. I'm glad I got to see him pitch in person.
@drebaselius9160 Жыл бұрын
Perfect mechanics. Power gathered, contained and released. A tight windup and sling.
@hlcepeda4 ай бұрын
Rube Walker was one of the NY Mets pitching coaches in 1969 and was instrumental in "bringing up" Ryan, Seaver, Gentry, and Koosman. All benefited from Walker's approach of having them develop compact deliveries (as you described) and had them keep their glove hands close to their bodies throughout from wind-up to release. All benefited, but Ryan most of all since that style of pitching (and his consistency with that approach) saved his throwing arm. The very young Ryan was sometimes "wild" in '69 as I recall, but the rest is his singularly amazing history.
@drebaselius91604 ай бұрын
@@hlcepeda Excellent analysis! As as Met fan I remember Walker! Thanks
@hlcepeda4 ай бұрын
@@drebaselius9160 👍⚾
@davefleming11172 ай бұрын
He was a joy to watch. Saw most of his career
@johnnyjoey Жыл бұрын
The cheat on Nolan Ryan was he would grunt on fastballs but not the rest of his pitches! The problem was, by the time you heard the grunt, the ball was past you! 😂
@striperking6083 Жыл бұрын
Koufax gave away his curveball too . They still couldn’t hit it
@adamrobinette683220 күн бұрын
Against Ryan his offspeed was so good it didnt matter. You either had to commit that a fastball was coming next, or commit to offspeed. There was no deciding after the ball was thrown. You had to just hope you could outthink him. That's why so many batters struck out on balls. If they thought a fastball was coming, they just had to commit to swinging for it wherever it was. The same was true for watched pitches, and why you didn't see a lot of swing attempts on watched pitches. They already commited to watching the next pitch no matter what. 😁
@JeffreyGlover65 Жыл бұрын
My alltime favorite baseball player. I pitched little league in '76 with his baseball card in my pocket. Watched him throw a no-hitter in '91 at 44yrs old. He didnt change as he got older, threw heat until his arm blew out. A mans man.
@mattrinck7503 Жыл бұрын
Wait. You were pitching Little League at 29 years old in '76?
@JeffreyGlover65 Жыл бұрын
@@mattrinck7503 lol. He was 44 in '91. I was 10 in the summer of '76.
@mattrinck7503 Жыл бұрын
@@JeffreyGlover65 Sorry. I read that wrong. I was picturing you mowing the kids down with straight gas like Nolan.
@JeffreyGlover65 Жыл бұрын
@@mattrinck7503 lol. I had no gas at 10, but I could paint the corners😎
@rogueldr642smiythe9 Жыл бұрын
Um the math is not adding up. Lol
@justiceforall3973 Жыл бұрын
7! 7 NO HITTERS!!!!!!! A record that will NEVER EVER be broken! Damn! 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@H4333910 ай бұрын
I believe he threw 8 one hitters. Unbelievable. I was lucky enough to have seen him pitch when he was with the Houston Astros.
@howie975110 ай бұрын
And how about his 2795 career walks? That won't be broken either. The guy was a .500 pitcher, third all time in losses and fourteenth in wins. Terrifying to face but overrated as a pitcher.
@timkramer92969 ай бұрын
@@howie9751still had a 2:1 ratio of strikeouts to walks and is one of the most dominant pitchers ever. 5,714 strikeouts, but you just want to point out the negative stats
@howie97519 ай бұрын
@@timkramer9296 He wasn't a dominant pitcher. A dominant pitcher is one you can count on to win you games. That wasn't Ryan. Third all time in losses, fourteenth in wins. Never won a Cy Young nor won ten games more than he lost in any season. He had a lot of spectaculars like strikeouts and no-hitters, but pitchers are paid to win, and at the end of the day he was little better than a .500 pitcher.
@AnHebrewChild3 ай бұрын
@@howie9751that couldn't have anything to do with the teams he played for, could it? Yes, I do think Win/Losses should be looked at contextually.
@iroczo66272 жыл бұрын
Salute to all the Catcher's taken the heat of that fast ball.🙏
@FreedomFighter211211 ай бұрын
Wow!!! His fast ball just disappears at the last 5 to 10 feet
@scissors656 Жыл бұрын
the way he wound up; and used all his body power to throw the pitch is what made him so effective !
@anthonymarcano2974 Жыл бұрын
You got that right. It's all in the mechanics.
@haroldreyes75492 ай бұрын
Right!! The BASIC push off the rubber, natural stride, uses ENTIRE arm motion and shoulder to throw effortlessly, NOT stopping your arm after you release it--FOOLISHNESS, and NOT standing up vertically as you pitch-- MORE FOOLISHNESS. No wonder today's kiddies throw slow and have short careers!!
@haroldreyes75492 ай бұрын
KZbin CENSORING others, AGAIN!!
@cranstonchristopher92127 ай бұрын
Nolan Ryan was poetry in motion. I doubt we will see his equal.
@mensrea1251 Жыл бұрын
Some of these sure look faster than the 98-100mph pitches that seem routine these days. Ball just explodes into the catchers mitt. Wow.
@LeifFrydenlundClark Жыл бұрын
Because they used to measure at the plate and now they measure out of the hand. The ball loses, depending on environmental variables, spin, etc; between 5 - 10 mph by the time it reaches the plate. So his 101.3 mph record still stands since it very well could have been 111 mph by today's standards. And we can literally time it and see how much faster it was.
@user-uo8yh9tb8g Жыл бұрын
Love him, I do, and NOBODY is breaking the no-hitter and career strike-out records....the only one I see as even possible is the season record one in front of Koufax......who IMO WAS better than Nolan......same could be said for the all-most forgotten 1940's teenage terror who was Bob Feller-----guy was also clocked at 107 (just a shade behind Ryan at 108), in street clothes racing a police motorcycle... check the great documentary on KZbin called (what else?) "Fastball". When Teddy Ballgame days you were the best he ever saw or faced.....well that alone says a lot, and he missed four years of his absolute prime due to serving in the war.....pretty incredible human. What separates Ryan from everybody though was his amazing longevity and what he was able to accomplish in his 40s.....the only guy I can think of that did a similar if not more amazing thing is Foreman winning the heavyweight title back in his 40s
@FreedomFighter211211 ай бұрын
Wow!!! His fast ball just disappears at the last 5 to 10 feet
@Strotophonic9 ай бұрын
People in the Astrodome knew when Nolan was throwing a Bullpen Session...........Without even seen who it was!!!
@shanezenmusic4 ай бұрын
Halfway to the plate the ball launches like a rocket booster turned on
@xavierbalzola863 Жыл бұрын
The pitcher....by which ALL OTHERS are measured...plan and simple...this man was a MONSTER TALENT....Nobody can touch him
@JamusChristus Жыл бұрын
Nah. Monsters are alive. Monsters are terrestrial. Nolan Ryan is neither. He is superalive and extraterrestrial
@fredymolina6435 Жыл бұрын
The best pitcher forever
@silverguard8105 Жыл бұрын
Um no. Maybe the fastball by which all others are measured. But he was far from the best pitcher ever.
@bunpeishiratori584911 ай бұрын
@@silverguard8105 Yeah, Ryan was never the best pitcher in the league. Guys like Seaver, Carlton, and Palmer were routinely better. But Ryan was the best "strikeout pitcher" of all time.
@T.R.R.Jolkien10 ай бұрын
@@bunpeishiratori5849which makes him the best. The goal is to strike everyone out
@dasfette Жыл бұрын
I never understand when people try to argue that he wasn't throwing 107-108, but 99-100. Go watch any modern flamethrower hitting 102-105 on modern guns. Then watch Nolan. The difference is noticeable in how the ball just EXPLODES from his hand - and with movement! You can SEE the difference.
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
Movement and Velocity but no control.
@dasfette8 ай бұрын
@@rustyshackelford4224 Can't disagree with that.
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
@dasfette Movement and Control matter far more than velocity. Even durability and the quality of pitches matter far more than throwing fastballs nonstop. Modern MLB has it backwards.
@shanezenmusic4 ай бұрын
Negligible means not noticable
@dasfette4 ай бұрын
@@shanezenmusicThanks
@vancedean96999 ай бұрын
In my opinion the best pitcher ever. He never had a lot of run support and didn’t benefit from the expanded strike zone of the last few years either. He threw strikes.
@overwhamming8 ай бұрын
Not even close to the best pitcher ever. Maybe somewhere near the bottom of the top 75. There’s a reason why he never won a Cy Young. He was never even the best pitcher in a single season, let alone all time.
@vancedean96998 ай бұрын
You have every right to be wrong.
@WilliamMunnyIII Жыл бұрын
Pete Rose said in an interview that Nolan's fastball "disappeared the last 5 feet." Quite a statement from arguably the best hitter of all time. I'm not one of those guys that thinks the old is better than the new, but I honestly think in his prime, Ryan threw harder than any recent pitcher I've seen. I'm no student of baseball, but I think they started using a different speed gun and showing the pitch speed on the scoreboard and TV set to sensationalize the speed of the pitches. The fans would think that was fast then look at the MPH on the scoreboard and cheer for the 105 MPH pitch. Somebody below said that the ball seemed to explode into the catcher's mitt. That seems to be an accurate description from this video and watching him pitch throughout his career.
@FreedomFighter211211 ай бұрын
Wow!!! His fast ball just disappears at the last 5 to 10 feet
@MrFuchew11 ай бұрын
Well they say adjusting for speed from the hand as measured today his fastest was 108mph
@WilliamMunnyIII11 ай бұрын
@@FreedomFighter2112 We all know that the harder the ball is thrown the harder it is to see the ball. It was Pete Rose's way of saying that the ball seemed to accelerate through the strike zone so fast you couldn't see it.
@WilliamMunnyIII11 ай бұрын
@@MrFuchew I agree with that. The guys throwing 105 now are throwing really hard, but I don't think they are throwing as hard as Nolan was in his prime. That 101+/- MPH fastball was about his 100th pitch of the game. When guys like Gossage were throwing upper 90's and Nolan was throwing around 100 on the old machine, you feared for the life of the batter. I bet the 105-ers would be throwing around 97 or 98 on the old JUGS machine. Maybe somebody will prove me wrong, but it just doesn't seem as fast. Mike Schmidt said he had a post-traumatic moment when he was on the stage with Ryan at the HOF induction. That is how hard he threw and intimidating he was.
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
@@WilliamMunnyIIIPete Rose was really about ball movement, not so much velocity. Ball Movement and control of your pitches matter far more than velocity. Nolan Ryan just had velocity _and_ ball movement with abysmal control.
@springfieldbearpatrol29379 ай бұрын
I always enjoyed his late career no hitters. He didn’t actually have the heat on some those nights, he just had great location and worked around the strike zone and threw in some curves as well. When he was on, man he was on.
@dvldog_2 ай бұрын
Some of the movement on those pitches, especially with their velocity, is just amazing!
@michaelpegoda74823 ай бұрын
I've been an Astros fan all my life I'm 68 I've said in every level of the dome stadium in Houston this man was phenomenal and awesome athlete with tenacity for the game he would not give up you could not beat this man he's one of my heroes
@jamaaljoseph427511 ай бұрын
Seaver, Ryan, Koosman all coached well in the Mets farm system to usr your legs to drive the ball when pitching, all 3 15+ years in the MLB with minimal arm trouble
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
Thanks
@Son-Of-David1990 Жыл бұрын
He used his left foot to his advantage really well taking that momentum. The way he swoops it. Lots of pitchers just stomp their kick leg and dont reach full potential because they think its all arm strength. If that were the case you wouldn't see such skinny armed guys firing 100 mph fastballs
@adamrobinette683220 күн бұрын
He was the epitome of full body mechanics. He used every ounce of his body to throw a pitch. Thats why he could throw all day. Pitchers now use a crazy violent arm snap at three quarters to generate velocity. And they simply can't hold up like Ryan did.
@johnhopkins8504 Жыл бұрын
I got to see his 5th no hitter in person. I actually went back to another game to get the record they handed out of that game and still have it
@tb1109 Жыл бұрын
I was very fortunate to see him pitch live on TV right now fastest baseball pitcher ever.
@sergeantmasson36694 ай бұрын
@tb1109, he still holds the record for fastest pitch ever.
@raymoore816210 ай бұрын
Nolan was Bad Ass!😂❤
@Robocoppat10 ай бұрын
As he got older, he got more faster. To be able to throw fast is one thing, to able to throw that fast, and even faster, for over 10 years is not human😊
@PeterParker-wh9de2 жыл бұрын
I believe the juggs gun had him at 100.8 but the amazing part was that he was throwing 100 mph into the 9th inning and that his career lasted for 27 years! Looking at these highlights it looks like it's 108 mph. He was striking out Hall of Famers in this video and the way the ball exploded into the catcher's mitt it makes you wonder how anyone ever got a hit off of him!
@bwink23 Жыл бұрын
Back then, pitches were being gunned at the plate. Now they are gunned within 3 feet of leaving the pitchers hand.
@johnsilcox8 Жыл бұрын
@@bwink23 Yeah, wind resistance knocks several miles per hour off the velocity in just the distance from the mound to the plate.
@soapbox187 Жыл бұрын
Even by todays standards, unless they moved the mound about two feet closer to the plate, the speed and time it took for that ball to reach the glove is insane! Ive been watching ball for over 32 years and played for 15 and can say with a fair amount of confidence those pitches are exceeding 103 or 104 mph.
@markwilliamson46288 ай бұрын
I have to agree. Nothing else ever looked like that.
@markwilliamson46288 ай бұрын
I mean, look at that pitch he blows by Dawson at 0:28...
@shanezenmusic4 ай бұрын
I swear a few gotta be 110...just so much different than any other fastball I've ever seen, it's truly insane
@Joseph-lz5er Жыл бұрын
Imagine Nolan Ryan played with the Mets in his entire career. Ryan and Seaver would have been the best one-two combo in baseball. Then in the 80s, Ryan and Gooden would have been special to watch. They probably win another championship in the 80s.
@birblife661110 ай бұрын
A mullet and a long black beard would have been icing on the cake. Nolan was the absolute MAN.
@danbernstein40509 ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to see nolan pitch at Baltimore in 1992. Game was sold out so I had to buy a cheap ticket from a scalper for about 10x f as ce price. Nolan made it worth it!
@stevechandler9637 ай бұрын
he was the best pitcher I ever saw. best mechanics was the key to his amazing speed.and why he was able to pitch for 27 amazing years.
@jbinthegarden11 ай бұрын
Look at those fast balls! they look like they are rising now thats a nice looking fastball.
@jonathanziegler81268 ай бұрын
Ryan, Blyleven, Sutton, Seaver, etc. played long toss and ran. I read an article some years ago concerning Ryan. He would pitch a complete game and ride the clubhouse exe recycle for an hour post game. He had incredible pitching stamina to go with the arm and mechanics. An amazing athlete.
@damongwinn Жыл бұрын
His fastball would best be described as "Violent"
@edgonzalez18611 күн бұрын
Yep... In today's environment it would be "canceled"
@marcusanderson9334 ай бұрын
I believe that Nolan and Tom Seaver had the best pitching motion of any right handed pitcher in history. They were just smooth with their deliveries. ⚾️⚾️
@knightrider693 Жыл бұрын
The movement on the fastball is what made it hard to hit
@manomantax Жыл бұрын
I think it was the speed buddy
@knightrider693 Жыл бұрын
@@manomantax no, I'm a pitcher and I know better than u. It's the movement and unpredictability that made Ryan hard to hit, not the speed of his FB
@PapaEli-pz8ff Жыл бұрын
@@knightrider693 Nasty curve ball.. and change up as well ⚾
@knightrider693 Жыл бұрын
@@PapaEli-pz8ff Yup. Plus u didn't know if it'd be over the plate or at your chin. He struggled with control for most of his career
@radar0412 Жыл бұрын
Nolan Ryan racked up all those freakish strikeout records, played for all those years without injury, and then baseball analytics comes in and says a pitcher has to rest longer between games, and has to walk off the mound after 100 pitches? Yeah, I'd say Ryan's strikeout records are pretty Secure.
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
Nolan Ryan was just built different...
@dolfanshannon2 ай бұрын
I grew up watching Nolan Ryan in the 80's. IMO he is the greatest pitcher of all time, and he whipped Robin Ventura's ass in the process of becoming the GOAT! LOL
@robertboydiiido-bolsa7531 Жыл бұрын
No one pitching today looks remotely close to this. He was blowing high fastballs by guys who were completely overpowered and buzzing the low ones by them just as easily. Clock it out of his hand and it's about 8 mph faster than where it was clocked then. The hardest throwing pitcher of all time. He'd be averaging about fifteen K's per nine with guys swinging like they do now. He'd also be finishing them if allowed to.
@ConfortinDEADHORSE5 ай бұрын
That is some SERIOUS heat
@TomandAmyinthePI3 ай бұрын
Ryan's delivery was kind of like a Right-Handed Koufax
@davefleming11172 ай бұрын
LEGEND
@marty-cz5ub9 ай бұрын
Sometimes you just feel like watching highlights of a guy who spent a quarter century throwing absolute s-tier GAS.
@ryanweaver36158 ай бұрын
The Ryan Express from Rufugio, Tx, Headed down there tomorrow to do some deer hunting.
@SpinandThrowDiscGolf11 ай бұрын
Goat
@marcvslicinivscrassvs75367 ай бұрын
Two different generations got to watch this dude pitch!
@joshrathbun2928 Жыл бұрын
The deadliest man ever on the pitchers mound my idol !
@Fulcrum-sf5zb9 ай бұрын
GOAT
@williamjovalusky8904 Жыл бұрын
God did give him the ability to be the best pitcher ever
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
Nyan Ryan's far from being the best pitcher of all-time.
@nashville89218 ай бұрын
Nolan, a humble man.
@mrlafayette196411 ай бұрын
Boog Powell bailed out on an outside fastball, can't much blame him after that chin music.
@WarPartyFitness Жыл бұрын
Some things we develop with training and practice and somethings we are just born genetically gifted to do.
@pukulu Жыл бұрын
Ryan's mechanics were as good as it gets. It they weren't his arm would have died long, long before it did. In fact, his arm never died. He just got old and was tired and sore.
@roseforyoubabe8 ай бұрын
terrible mechanics with men on base who could easily steal off ryan
@cristorey343611 ай бұрын
Beautiful 🤩
@note2owns Жыл бұрын
Nolan had numerous games where he pitched over 200 pitches. Insane!!
@roseforyoubabe8 ай бұрын
because he could not master control
@Kane-ib5sn Жыл бұрын
just looking at it, i'd say: 1st pitch, 5 second mark: 107+ mph...i don't know what i'm seeing here; if i put an upper limit to it, i'd say 110 mph. 11 second mark: 104 mph. keep in mind the footage you're seeing may be moving faster than actually happened - i.e. frames per second moving faster than reality...
@mrfedy40388 ай бұрын
🐐
@nelsonmarrero36106 ай бұрын
El mejor de la historia Nolan Ryan,no cabe dudas
@scottseverson67164 ай бұрын
Thank you
@matta39682 ай бұрын
He drilled a kid in HS and broke the hitters arm. The on deck hitter didn't want to step up to the plate and I can't say I blame him.
@tghoran03692 ай бұрын
Just think what his career would have been like if he played on a winner during his time like the Yankees, Dodgers or Reds. In my humble opinion think Ryan is the greatest pitcher certainly of his generation.
@osamushinohara447 Жыл бұрын
God speed!
@rufuspipemos3 ай бұрын
The two pitches starting at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="28">0:28</a> to Andre Dawson. My god!!!!
@earlshannon10489 ай бұрын
Greatest pitcher ever no one come close!!!!!
@nashville89218 ай бұрын
I saw him in person on time, pitching for Astros. I did not know now it was Ryan until the 3rd inning, and the strike outs just keep adding up... and then, my friend said, you didn't know it was Ryan? He got 15 strike outs that game before it was over. From my seat, the ball was moving so fast the batter had to make a decision to swing almost from the moment it left his hand.
@razor62728 ай бұрын
The real GOAT!
@marcusanderson9334 ай бұрын
The Express! ⚾️
@Keith_E8 ай бұрын
The best pitcher of all time
@ParkysPlace4 ай бұрын
I watched the game when he threw an officially recorded 104 MPH fastball. At that time it was the fastest recorded.
@acitoneroyal6002 Жыл бұрын
Dude threw serious heat but ya sure didn’t see him striking out T.G💪💪💪💪💪💪
@scottseverson67164 ай бұрын
Ducking great
@louisrondone133210 ай бұрын
Chin music supreme⚾😱 Actually think his most dominant years were with Angels.
@FreedomFighter211211 ай бұрын
Wow!!! His fast ball just disappears at the last 5 to 10 feet
@H4333910 ай бұрын
Pete Rose was the one who said that and it did.
@AntonioRamirez-jb8rp11 ай бұрын
Sencillamente,un fuera de serie.
@JoeBuck-uc3bl4 ай бұрын
Who would you take between Nolan Ryan or Tom Seaver?
@HotshotHyena2 жыл бұрын
Were these clips pulled from a documentary or something? I’d like to watch it
@spcooper942 жыл бұрын
There's a brand new documentary called "Facing Nolan"
@Newholland1982 Жыл бұрын
Yes,it’s called facing Nolan,it’s on Netflix
@fasteddie7749 ай бұрын
The Texas Flamethrower!
@willshad8 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="64">1:04</a> Did Ryan have his own personal strike zone? That pitch was a foot outside.
@southamcaballero5 ай бұрын
Ryan and Tom Seaver. The best high-rise fastballs ever
@gargantuaism11 ай бұрын
Anybody who does not agree that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in sports is a little on the slow side.
@joefaria523 Жыл бұрын
The worse part of how fast he throws is that is pitching mechanics are so good that his long arms create an abbreviate response time that makes the "closing rate speed" of his pitch even more insane fast because he is so well trained that is more of a detriment...and when he throws a wild pitch it is often a catcher having trouble getting his glove up to the ball and it is tricky to field...there on another note a young girl about 10 years old in as a catcher in softball is amazing that she reaches in and untuitively slides her torso like a pro catcher and traps the pitch low and away and it makes no sense how well this young child has instilled and absorbed disciplines that made this intuitive and whoever paired with her in the coaching engraved gritty and nasty excellence and the girl then goes into calm mode and tapers down and gets the pitcher the ball....this is crazy as it is not even part of the theme of the video and I am thinking to myself who the heck trained this kid..it was the most odd show of intellect, talent, poise, maturity, wildness and innate reaction and don't even want to say who this little kid was because she has to do these drills in her head and it makes no sense and it is like an extension of another situation that again repeated itself and just kind of baffling that they are gonna be something oddly unique and maybe unsung and more bizarre is someone knows that I know in timing maybe how I am gonna react so perfectly and that makes zero sense as whoever this person is has no access to knowing and empowering me and wants to as I am struggling to get the correct dosage of my Rx and are acting like resistors and that is not healthy "resistance" exercise when dealing with Neuro Pons that cannot rebuild and is odd that they would deprive as this is not like muscular refinement that can be redeveloped and is grueling and only painful
@Magasfavoriteson Жыл бұрын
Got to see him pitch in 90 with my dad at the old stadium
@asdrubalvelasquez2830 Жыл бұрын
There never will other like the Blue Express Ryan! ⚾🇺🇲⚾🇺🇲⚾🇺🇲⚾🇺🇲⚾🇺🇲⚾🇺🇲
@jorgem5011 ай бұрын
Nolan and his superman arm
@yoholmes273 Жыл бұрын
That's the Easy Cheese 🧀 Straight Gas baby
@Ronaldinho420312 ай бұрын
He was incredible, but holy Cow his command sometimes was the worst. Which makes his numbers even more incredible.
@jeffreya9208 Жыл бұрын
All that power and still he finishes his delivery in position to field the ball
@ericrosenburg65711 ай бұрын
I heard that the stadiums he pitched in had to be oriented North to South because his push off on the mound would disrupt the rotation of the earth.
@jgamez50233 ай бұрын
Texas legend !
@yotoober1Ай бұрын
Another thing that made Ryan right to hit is besides the speed of the pitch, of you look carefully the ball also has tail on it almost like a cut fastball before pitchers were throwing cut fastballs. The added tail makes it almost impossible to hit. And even if you get a hit or worse a home run, you know that you gonna get drilled 😟 next time at bat
@bitofwizdomb72664 ай бұрын
I bet in 30 yrs from now, Nolan’s legend fastball will be 125 mph
@rudydoang1748 Жыл бұрын
his the real THANOS
@joealberti77629 ай бұрын
Ryan was not the greatest pitcher of all time. He may not even be in the top 10. However, he was certainly the most exciting pitcher to watch in the last 50 years. Heck, he might even be the most exciting pitcher ever; it's either him or Sandy Koufax. A definite Hall of Famer. I had the pleasure to see Ryan pitch half a dozen times over his career. Nobody dug in against him.
@paulwidener56917 ай бұрын
and 1 in 2 hitters and 1 in three hitters. not to mention strikeouts
@Robzrx Жыл бұрын
I don’t know the difference between radar guns now and then but you look at these pitches and compare them to those of say Bobby Miller who pitched today for the Dodgers. Miller was consistently clocked at 100mph and most of Ryan’s pitches here look much faster than Miller’s
@rustyshackelford42248 ай бұрын
Are you sure about that?
@adamb32868 ай бұрын
Just think about this. If he's throwing a 100mph+ ball you have 0.6 sec to react to something that's coming at you from 60'6" away. It's just freaking nuts.
@mensrea1251 Жыл бұрын
Probably no other pitcher in MLB history gave hitters more reason to charge the mound without them actually charging the mound for fear of getting their asses whupped 😂 #TheExpress