The numbers behind Athletics' Ramon Laureano's unreal throw are insane

Steven Ruiz | For The Win

That A's CF Ramon Laureano even got to this ball Justin Upton smashed into the left-center gap was impressive on its own. That he was then able to turn around and fire a perfect strike 321 feet in the air to double up Eric Young Jr. at first is nothing short of miraculous. But that's exactly what he did…

Per Statcast, there was just a 42% chance that Laureano even makes that catch. He had to cover 76 feet in just 4.4 seconds in order to do so.

The throw, which beat Young by a fraction of a second, travelled at 91.2 MPH. To put that in perspective, only 58 pitchers are currently averaging a higher velocity on their fastball this season, per Fan Graphs. And they're throwing it from 60 feet, 6 inches. Not 321 feet.

What a throw.

The Athletics would go on to win the game 7-0.

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