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About Greg Maddux
In Game 1 of the 1995 World Series, with Atlanta trailing 3, 2 in the eighth inning and runners on first and second, you didn’t need a radar gun to feel the tension, you needed a stopwatch and a notebook. That’s when he threw 14 consecutive pitches inside the strike zone, all fastballs at 86 mph or less, each landing within a baseball-sized window just off the black. No flamethrower, no slider, no showboating, just an unbroken chain of decisions calibrated over thousands of pregame bullpen sessions, scouting reports memorized by hand, and a catcher’s glove that moved like a metronome. His 1997 season wasn’t defined by strikeouts but by inducing 209 groundouts on 892 pitches, a statistical echo of his belief that location isn’t precision; it’s intention layered over repetition. He redefined what dominance meant in an era chasing velocity, proving that outthinking batters mattered more than outrunning them.
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