1. The first thing everyone notices about Matt Moore is the ease with which 95 mph projectiles fly from his hand. His first pitch to Ian Kinsler early Friday evening sizzles across the plate at 95 for a strike. Moore’s delivery looks so free, so smooth, that he must be breaking some sort of kinetic law to coax the velocity.

    — Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Passan
    on Rays rookie Matt Moore, who won Game 1 of the ALDS (via hardcharging)

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