The FASTEST pitch in LLWS history. Guess how the hitters did.

A record that will NEVER be broken! Doing the near impossible, this player set the unbreakable record.
Alex Edmondson will never be surpassed as the fastest pitcher to throw in Little League World Series history. With the age changes starting in LLWS 2019, the chance another player could surpass Alex is almost impossible.

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[MH-Tesla]

122 feet per second equals 83.2 mph, not 86.2. That was clocked at 75 feet, so given your rough calculations of 1mph lost per 8 feet, add 9.3 mph=92.5mph for Walter Johnson. Sorry to nit pick your video.

[marcusorlando]

Just because the reaction times are equivalent doesn't mean that the difficulty of hitting the pitch is equivalent. Hitting soft toss from 10 feet away could require the same reaction time as hitting Aroldis Chapman's fastball, but is obviously much easier to hit

[skt_]

remember when I was a kid there was a pitcher in my little league that threw in the high 70's. Our coach told us to not think about it, and to just shorten up with no load to our swings so the speed of the ball can do all of the work. We ended up hitting three home runs off of him and after that I realized velocity doesn't really matter if you don't have movement. These are great eye openers for kids that age and is a good way to show them that they shouldn't be intimidated by faster pitching when they play more competitively later on.

[BobbingFries]

I coached a kid in LL who got his growth spurt early and was throwing either high 70s or low 80s. Unfortunately for him, and the rest of us trying to catch him, he had no command, nor intention/discipline to learn any mechanics. He just wanted to throw hard. He walked a TON of batters, lost a bunch of games due to wild pitches. It was SCARY to try to catch him in warm-ups when the catcher was still getting gear on. I didn't know where the ball was going, and neither did he.

[hellstrike]

1:56 That kid in the batters box looks scared, not blaming him with an 80 something mph fastball coming at him from 46 feet.

[bgensel]

I played with kid in little league that only gave up 1 hit all season, including all-stars. He could throw pretty hard, but his curveball was deadly. He would literally throw it at the batters head and it would snap into the strike zone. Unfortunately, he was ineffective in high school. Everyone caught up to him in size by then and his curve broke too soon. If he had a twin, they would have won it all at Williamsport. Unhittable.

[larrykramer]

Alex will be a sophomore in 2022 for the Clemson Tigers. He's listed at 6' 1" and 215 pounds. So basically the same height as when he was 13, just put on some weight. Will be interesting to see if he eventually gets drafted into MLB.

[Snapple]

I played in the 05' LLWS for Guam(Pacific), and I remember there was a kid on a team from California throwing an average of 79-81mph. If I remember correctly he pitched a perfect game during pool play which I thought was insane.

[alexh]

13 year olds playing on a diamond made for 8, 9, and 10 year olds is a joke.

[GotDamBoi]

ah yes the LLWS, where skill means very little but the age you hit puberty means everything

[timothycrombie]

For me the most amazing part of the video is at 1:08 (app.), where Feller is pitching to Hank Greenberg, the camera focusing on home plate and Greenberg's swing. You can't even see a blur as the ball passes through the batter's box. Wow!

[townsendheal]

I remember when my team was going thru the LLWS tournament . Got that cool patch after beating all the local teams . Won the first game of the regional tournament, but then we got absolutely crushed in the second game by a team with a kid throwing low 70s . Good times

[kpc]

Played on 2 teams with Alex. He’s always been ridiculously good even in little league.

[marcuscastillo]

The extension from this tall kid makes it look even faster. Especially from the short mound distance

[MH-Tesla]

I remember this. Crazy to let kids this big play on that field. They should have kept the April 30 cut off date like travel baseball, but cut it off at 11. Moving to August 31, did huge harm to little league. Bad move.

[cameronriddle]

We had a kid In my Little League that was throwing mid/upper 70s. His team didn't even win the championship because he didn't have a great curveball. But it was something to behold.

[bowhunter]

RIP to his future elbow. Parents should be ashamed. Throwing sliders? Come on man

[jimmyr]

China has a pitcher right now throwing 81-82 mph at 12.

[adamrobinette]

This year Chen-Jun from Taipei hit 80. He was so impressive though because his breaking stuff was filthy and he just threw strikes all day.

[TaterChip]

It's kinda hard watching a kid throwing that hard at that age and not think he's going to blow his arm out