The look on Moyer's face reminded me of Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon - "I'm too old for this ####."

122.4 MPH off the bat. Fastest exit speed recorded by Hittracker in its history.

And the crazy thing is he didn't get much of that velocity from Moyer's pitch. It was a changeup. A Jamie Moyer changeup.

I'm dubious about how much the speed of a pitch can contribute anyway. Was something published in the last two years that said there wasn't a strong tie between pitch speed and HR distance?

You obviously never played Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball on NES.

It was a changeup. A Jamie Moyer changeup.

So...like hitting off a tee, then?

I don't think he knew it at the time, but one of the players interviewed after the game pretty much quoted Walter Johnson's comment on Babe Ruth's homers: his get smaller quicker.

A Jamie Moyer changeup travels backwards.

In response, outfield Autobot celebrator Homerunus Prime leapt up and flailed his rainbow-colored dolphin arms in anguish.

I haven't actually checked it out, but I have seen a lot of Moyer's games and I have a strong belief that his first time through the order is a lot better than the subsequent times through the order. Maybe they should make him a reliever so that he never has to face the same guys more than once in a game.

The National League has 67 pitchers with enough IP to qualify for rate stats. Of those, Moyer has the highest WHIP and most H/9IP. When I see him pitch, I feel like his 4.99 era is smoke and mirrors, about to get a lot worse. Then again, he's about league average on BB/9, a little below average on K/9, and solidly below average but not horrible with HRs so maybe he can keep it up. (Also, when I looked him up I saw K:BB of 2.0 and thought "that's pretty good, right?" League average these days is 2.39; it was consistently under 2 until 2008; times have changed)

I know it's cute and everything, but really, the Rockies need to stop futzing around with Jamie Moyer and get to work on building a real ballclub. They now have two highly touted young starters with major league experience at AAA in Chacin and Pomeranz, plus Jorge De La Rosa is coming back in a couple of weeks. There's no reason to let a 49-year-old mediocrity keep any one of those guys from having a decent shot at making the Rockies' rotation.

I really want to see Jamie Moyer win his 300th game. It'll be the Batnaum Death March of career 300 winners.

How's Moyer's BABIP? Just eyeballing his stat line, he looks like he's been a little unlucky to me.

Yeah, but he's unlucky the same way a rec league softball pitcher is unlucky. When you throw that slow, you're bound to get into trouble.

Was something published in the last two years that said there wasn't a strong tie between pitch speed and HR distance?

Just using a simple momentum conservation approach to the problem gets you this result.

122.4 MPH off the bat. Fastest exit speed recorded by Hittracker in its history.

I'm a little skeptical of this for a couple of reasons. Last season, Sean Rodriguez hit an absolute missile that Hit Tracker recorded as leaving the bat at something like 122 or 123 mph, but they later revised it downwards to 118.4. I also don't think it's a good sign that Stanton wasn't even sure that it was his hardest-hit homer this season, although I wonder if a 72-mph changeup might feel so different off the bat that he isn't able to judge accurately. We'll see, anyway - he certainly did obliterate that ball.

I'd hate to be the third baseman when Stanton is up.