{"id":228444,"date":"2025-08-06T05:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/228444\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:08:10","slug":"lourdes-gurriel-jr-makes-history-crushes-103-9-mph-pitch-from-mason-miller-for-a-2-run-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/228444\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourdes Gurriel Jr. makes history, crushes 103.9 mph pitch from Mason Miller for a 2-run homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller was bringing the heat on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. returned the favor.<\/p>\n<p>Gurriel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1952950927788523633\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:crushed a 103.9 mph fastball from Miller;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">crushed a 103.9 mph fastball from Miller<\/a> into the left-field seats for a two-run homer in the eighth inning, tying the game at 5-all. It was the hardest hit pitch for a homer since MLB started pitch tracking in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a two-homer night for Gurriel. The veteran also hit a two-run shot in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-throwing Miller was acquired from the Athletics at last week&#8217;s trade deadline. He routinely throws over 100 mph and hit 104.2 mph with his hardest pitch on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller was bringing the heat on Tuesday night. Arizona Diamondbacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[38452,22,5,6468,1447,1101,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,1949],"class_list":{"0":"post-228444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-100-mph","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-eighth-inning","12":"tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","13":"tag-mason-miller","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-padres","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-padres","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-sandiegopadres","20":"tag-the-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114980094728706100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}