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It took Mason Miller only 10 pitches to mow through the Colorado Rockies in the ninth inning, striking out all three hitters in the San Diego Padres ' 7-3 extra-innings victory on Thursday night at Petco Park. He continued his scoreless run, moving the streak to 27 2/3 innings dating back to last August, which stands as the longest active streak in baseball and is six shy of Cla Meredith's franchise record.
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During his current run of form, Miller has faced 21 batters and struck out 16 of them while allowing just one hit. That 76.2% strikeout rate is the highest by a pitcher in his first six appearances of a season since at least 1900, surpassing both Jose Alvarado in 2023 and Aroldis Chapman in 2021.
Miller's ninth inning also featured blazing velocity, with a 103.4 mph fastball that struck out Ezequiel Tovar for the second out. That pitch was the fastest ever thrown for a Padres strikeout in a regular-season game. The only faster strikeout pitch in San Diego history came from Miller himself, when he threw a 104.5 mph heater during last year's National League Wild Card Series against Carson Kelly . He also came close to an immaculate inning, with his first seven pitches of the frame all strikes before finishing with only one ball thrown in the outing.
The game eventually went to extra innings, where Xander Bogaerts provided the breakthrough with a 12th-inning walk-off grand slam , giving the Padres the win and ending the Rockies' four-game winning streak.
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