20 year old Shohei Ohtani ties the record (with Marc Kroon) for the Nippon Professional Baseball League’s fastest pitch ever recorded, during game 2 of the All-Star Series (7/19/14). This broke Yoshinori Sato’s previous record of 161 km/h for the fastest pitch ever thrown by a Japanese native.
162 km = 100.7 mph…158 km = 98.2 mph
161 km = 100.0 mph…157 km = 97.6 mph
160 km = 99.4 mph…..133 km = 82.6 mph
159 km = 98.8 mph…..132 km = 82.0 mph