Freestyle. The freestyle stroke involves the use of muscles in your hands -- the thenars -- and arms -- the biceps and triceps -- to help you glide through the water smoothly. In one motion, your entire body is engaged in the forward action of the freestyle move.
The likelihood of a pitcher completing nine innings if he throws an average of 14 pitches or less per inning is reinforced by the totals of the 89 games in which pitchers did actually complete nine innings of work.
The fastest pitch ever was by Detroit Tiger, Fernando Rodney, in a game against the Minnesota Twins. The pitch was 115.7 mph. +1 vote! The fastest recorded pitch during a MLB game was thrown by Joel Zumaya of the Detroit Tigers on October 10th, 2006 against the Oakland A's. The pitch was clocked at 104.8 mph.