Mason Miller has had someone play baseball for six days. Actually, this is not true. Until the right-hander caught Michael Busch in the eighth inning of yesterday’s wildcard showdown between Padres and the Cubs, it was indeed five days, three relief appearances and 11 hitters as anyone beat Miller against Miller and did the other hitters. However, six of the 11 victims managed to put the bat on the ball. Three of them did it twice. Just over the past week, no one has figured out how to keep Miller’s disappearing slider or 102 mph fastball average 102 mph in the last three outings – enough to achieve so much, just like the Tailman returning to the mound. Bush’s unfortunate foot stole the winning streak at 11 o’clock, but it looked even more shocking.
Interestingly, the historical record of consecutive strikeouts (or at least since 1961, when full game-by-game data is available) belongs to Miller’s teammate Jeremiah Estrada. Estrada hit 13 consecutive batsmen in three games last May. In fact, he hit all 13 of them.
That was a pleasant play log. Estrada’s winning streak ended because manager Mike Schildt deliberately walked away the first batsman he faced when he faced on May 31.
The general feeling of the audience is astonishing whenever Miller is on the mound, and anyone has ever managed to throw the ball into it. He just threw a round. Since its debut in 2023, Miller has allowed only 0.55 hits per inning, the lowest hit rate among all 473 pitchers. And now, after the 2025 season, his 45.2% WHIFF rate ranked second among all pitchers, Miller has boarded a higher plane. His gas price rate has reached a ridiculous 61.9% in the last three games.
Now that the winning streak has begun, no matter how irrelevant the contact, it is time to celebrate the six wonders of trying to connect with one of his courts. From the weakest contact to the strongest contact, we will count down, starting with the least baseball obtained by Moisés Ballesteros. You can hear the foul tip before the ball hits the glove.
Honestly, Ballesteros gets enough pitch to make a sound, which is impressive. It’s a 102.6 mph fastball, much higher than the strike zone. It has a height of 3.76 feet, and this season, Miller has a WHIFF rate of 55.9% on fastballs of 3.7 feet or higher. Even those pitchers who don’t throw 102 are on four shoemakers above the area, as it’s hard for hitters to drop it and hit it. This pitch is why we care about vertical close angles. This pitch is why we will never forget orgasm Your own alliance. Technically, the ballpark in Ballesteros gradually declined as Statcast calculated two-thirds of the foul skills rather than fouls, but we didn’t have to take it away from him. He gently brushed the baseball, and for this we pay tribute to him.
Next comes Dansby Swanson, who has more stadiums and more catchers Freddy Fermin.
You might think Miller fooled Swanson with a 2-2 slider, and he probably did. It’s also possible that Swanson does indeed try to focus on the slider. It’s just that when you know you might see a 104 on the strike zone, trying to find the slider, and actually staying long enough that on time are two completely different propositions. Shortstop can only slow down enough to throw the bat head onto the ball. This is a great achievement, so Fei Ming will definitely have lifelong resentment.
This is another two-stroke slider that hardly avoids taking strike as three. Leading 1-2, Miller missed Seiya Suzuki, which shows you why pitchers tend to think, soft.
The batsman needs to grab the ball in front of the plate when they are inside, so the fact that Suzuki is in front of the court doesn’t hurt him much. He still grabbed the smallest piece of it – too small to he barely stop it from sticking to the receiver’s glove – but at least he grabbed that piece with the barrel of the bat. Did he get on this court? Absolutely not. Has he gone on strike on the next court? You bet he did it.
We have now completed the foul skills. Next, we will have four regular foul balls. These guys extend to their last regular season appearance against the Diamondbacks on September 27, and they are all fastballs that no one can catch.
That’s why the pitching coach tells the pitcher what he wants and dares to hit the ball, which is the benefit of pitching harder than almost anyone who has ever lived. Miller doesn’t necessarily fool anyone here. They were ready for the fastball and they got it. This is too much. Swanson, Connor Kaiser, Carson Kelly, and even approached Maven Geraldo Perdomo, they simply rambled this racket to the opposite seat and went alive to see another court. Swanson took a powerful skill and looked at the mound as if saying, “I’m by your side, Mason Miller.”
Actually, he isn’t Miller, but you can see why this foul feels like a victory.
Now, we are trapped in an impressive foul. Again, it was Kelly, who almost kept the ball in the field of game!
Kelly is in front of a slider in the inner corner here, and despite Luis Arraez’s heroic efforts to get it in, he sends a weak pop-up to the right. He must have ended up suffering a severe bruise and he was depressed online. I wrote about this exact hit in May. Usually when you are leading, you hit it on the pulling side, but sometimes you go far, so you have to slow down the bat head. At that time, you can’t help popping it up in another way. If Kelly was above the ball, he would hit a faint ground on the left-or, more likely to crash it directly into his foot- but since he was below, he could only achieve his impossible dream of facing Mason Miller and walked away with a faint member for a few feet (or a gust of wind).
The last one is Geraldo Perdomo, one of the best bats in baseball and, lately, somehow, one of the best bats in baseball. This is how Perdomo really moves the slider along the pull side.
This ball stands out from the bat at 100 mph. Perdomo is still ahead. At the moment of passing first base, it could be a 25-foot foul. Still, this is the best connection anyone has ever made with Miller in nearly a week. Perdomo will continue to strike like everyone else, but he can proudly know that he was the last player to ever actually hit Miller.
