For the first time in a long time, Andrew Heaney stood atop a major league mound and felt in control. So, for his 92nd pitch, Heaney stepped back, stepped up, reached further within his frame and fired a fastball to Oakland’s Ryon Healy faster than ever before. Healy swung and missed to become the Heaney’s 10th and final strikeout of a banner night. As with his hurtling fastball to Healy, Heaney was prone to occasional wildness throughout the evening. Though he crashed into the padded wall, Trout could not catch the bases-clearing triple, which supplied the Astros’ winning runs.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 29, 2017 01:30 UTC