CHICAGO – We've become a bit habituated to all the triple-digit fastballs and sharp, unhittable late movement populating Major League Baseball these days. Relievers especially have been bred and fed to max out velocity, and so many of them regularly clock readings that would've been unthinkable less than a generation ago. And there's Mason Miller , the San Diego Padres ' fire-breathing high-leverage reliever and the club's flagship trade-deadline addition.

However routine "pitch nastiness" has become for the regular observer of this sport, a pitcher like Miller still redefines what we think a ball leaving a human hand should be able to do. Miller loudly reminded us of this during the later innings of the San Diego Padres' 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs ( box score ) in Wednesday's

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