Reliever Mike Mayers shows improvement and nasty stuff for Angels, who beat Rockies
by Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times
Sep 13, 2020
3 minutes
In one of the most memorable moments of an otherwise disappointing Friday evening in Denver, Angels reliever Mike Mayers unleashed a 96-mph fastball to a Colorado Rockies hitter and watched the pitch defy gravity.
The heater hurtled toward the upper right corner of the strike zone on a straight line. At the final second, it rose a few inches until it was about level with the shoulders of Colorado's Tony Wolters.
And Wolters, deceived, swung through the pitch just as catcher
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