The Padres got Mason Miller at the Trade Deadline for postseason moments exactly like these, and the flamethrowing closer has delivered. On Wednesday afternoon in Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series against the Cubs, he even made some history.

Miller fired in a fastball to Carson Kelly in the bottom of the seventh inning that came in at 104.5 mph on the radar. Kelly watched it go by for strike three, perfectly painted on the bottom edge of the strike zone. That surpassed Aroldis Chapman (104.2 mph) for the fastest pitch tracked by Statcast (since 2015) in the postseason, and was also by far the fastest strikeout pitch (previous high of 103.7 mph, also by Chapman).

It was a good morning, good afternoon, good night type of at-bat for Kelly, who fouled off an 89.6 mph fastball and a 102.8 mph

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