The 2025 postseason has been filled with unbelievable highlight-reel performs — from moonshot house runs to electrical strikeouts to sensational catches.
Listed below are the very best of the very best, with all of the eye-popping numbers behind these performs captured by Statcast powered by Google Cloud.
Statcast tracks the space of all these homers, the rate of all these Okay’s, the catch chance of all these internet gems. And you may need to watch these again and again.
These are the ten coolest Statcast moments of the playoffs.
1) Ohtani’s three monster house runs
Shohei Ohtani’s Sport 4 of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence was possibly the best baseball recreation ever performed — six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts as a pitcher, three house runs as a hitter. However the homers have been particularly ridiculous.
First, Ohtani hit a leadoff house run 116.5 mph and 446 ft to the again of the right-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium. Then he crushed his second one 116.9 mph and 469 ft, over the roof of the pavilion past the bleachers and filter out of the stadium. And only for good measure, he hit a 3rd one 113.6 mph and 427 ft to heart subject off a 98.9 mph fastball from Trevor Megill.
2) The Brewers’ 404-foot ‘GIDP’
Possibly the craziest play of the postseason occurred in Sport 1 of the NLCS, when the Brewers obtained the Dodgers to “floor right into a double play” … on a 404-foot fly ball.
L.A. had the bases loaded and one out when Max Muncy crushed a ball to the center-field fence in Milwaukee — a ball that, primarily based on its 104 mph exit velocity and 32-degree launch angle, is a success 77% of the time and a house run 72% of the time. Sal Frelick tried to rob Muncy on the wall, solely to have the ball bounce out of his glove, off the highest of the fence and again into his glove.
Teoscar Hernández, the runner on third, was confused about whether or not the ball had been caught (it hadn’t), and whether or not he needed to tag up (he did not). His back-and-forth route from third to house took him 12.35 seconds, and that gave the Brewers sufficient time to power him out on the plate.
Frelick fired an 87.9 mph throw in to shortstop Joey Ortiz, who removed an 84.9 mph relay to catcher William Contreras in simply 0.73 seconds. Then Contreras noticed that Will Smith, the runner on second, hadn’t superior both. So Contreras jogged up the road from house to 3rd and compelled out Smith. Extremely, that goes as a “grounded into double play” within the scorecard … though it is one of many longest double performs of any variety in Statcast historical past.
3) Decide’s HR off the foul pole
Aaron Decide got here by means of with an enormous clutch swing in Sport 3 of the American League Division Sequence with the Yankees dealing with elimination in opposition to the Blue Jays. Decide by some means turned on a 99.7 mph 0-2 fastball from reliever Louis Varland that was six inches off the plate inside and launched it off the foul pole at Yankee Stadium for a game-tying three-run homer.
Decide may solely get his barrel to the ball because of his elite bat velocity. His swing was 77.9 mph, effectively above Statcast’s 75-plus mph “quick swing” threshold. Of all of the 329 house runs off 99-plus mph pitches within the Statcast period, none was farther off the plate than the one Decide hit (1.2 ft from the middle of the strike zone).
4) Skubal’s triple-digit Okay’s to open the playoffs
Tarik Skubal is probably the most dominant pitcher within the Majors, and he proved it this postseason, along with his 1.74 ERA and 36 strikeouts in 20 2/3 innings in his three begins. And the Tigers ace obtained the playoffs began with a bang.
Skubal racked up 14 Okay’s in opposition to the Guardians within the first recreation of the 2025 postseason, together with three on triple-digit heaters — 100.2 mph, 100.4 mph and 101.2 mph. He grew to become one among simply three beginning pitchers to document a 100-plus mph Okay within the postseason within the Statcast period, together with Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard. And he went on to document seven strikeouts on triple-digit fastballs within the playoffs, probably the most by a starter in a single postseason over that point.
5) Yamamoto’s World Sequence full recreation
In his Fall Basic gem in opposition to Toronto in Sport 2, Yamamoto collected eight strikeouts — 4 apiece on his fastball and curveball. Yamamoto’s four-seam Okay’s reached as excessive as 97.1 mph and generated as a lot as 19 inches of “rising” motion. His curveball Okay’s obtained all the best way all the way down to 76.6 mph — over 20 mph slower than a few of his fastballs — and induced as a lot as 19 inches of drop. It was a masterclass in altering speeds and actions.
6) Miller’s record-setting Okay
The Padres fireman struck out the primary 5 Cubs batters he confronted, together with Carson Kelly on a 104.5 mph fastball. That heater set a brand new document for each the quickest postseason strikeout pitch and the quickest postseason pitch, interval, since pitch monitoring started in 2008. The following-fastest Okay is 103.7 mph by Aroldis Chapman within the 2017 AL Wild Card Sport.
7) Barger’s golden glove, rocket arm within the Fall Basic
Within the instant-classic, 18-inning Sport 3 of the World Sequence, each groups saved runs off the board with a collection of key defensive performs to throw runners out on the bases. Arguably probably the most spectacular of these was Addison Barger’s 98.5 mph laser from proper subject to the plate to nab Freddie Freeman attempting to attain within the third inning.
Barger’s throw was the toughest direct outfield help (straight from the fielder to the bottom for the out) below Statcast monitoring. The earlier quickest was a 97.4 mph throw to the plate by the Astros’ Marwin Gonzalez in Sport 1 of the 2017 ALCS.
Then, in Sport 5, Barger helped Toronto take a 3-2 lead within the collection with a terrific diving catch to rob Ohtani on a fully scorched 117.3 mph line drive. Barger wanted to react rapidly to cowl 38 ft in simply 3.0 seconds, and he had a catch chance of simply 30%. In the meantime, Ohtani’s lineout is tied for the second-hardest-hit out within the postseason since Statcast began monitoring.
8) Crochet’s late-inning warmth
Skubal wasn’t the one flame-throwing ace who dominated this postseason. Garrett Crochet did the identical within the Crimson Sox-Yankees rivalry showdown within the AL Wild Card Sequence.
Taking the ball for Boston in Sport 1, Crochet beat the Yankees with 7 2/3 innings of one-run, 11-strikeout baseball. The southpaw capped it off by placing out Austin Wells with a 100.2 mph fastball on his 117th pitch of the sport. That’s the solely 100-plus mph strikeout by a beginning pitcher within the eighth inning or later of a postseason recreation within the pitch monitoring period.
9) PCA’s seize within the Wild Card Sequence
Pete Crow-Armstrong is without doubt one of the finest defensive outfielders on the earth, and he flashed the leather-based within the Cubs’ winner-take-all Sport 3 of the NL Wild Card Sequence in opposition to the Padres.
PCA robbed Manny Machado of a success with a slick sliding catch in heart subject within the first inning — a play that had a catch chance of simply 10% in response to Statcast. Crow-Armstrong obtained an unbelievable bounce to cowl 46 ft in simply 3.1 seconds to make the play. It set the tone for the Cubs of their win over San Diego.
10) Ohtani’s ‘hearth vs. hearth’ house run off Greene
Let’s bookend the checklist with Ohtani … who else? Ohtani was crushing house runs all postseason lengthy — together with within the Dodgers’ very first recreation.
Ohtani began L.A.’s Wild Card Sequence rout of the Reds with a 117.7 mph leadoff house runs off a 100.4 mph fastball from Reds ace Hunter Greene. In the entire Statcast period, common season or postseason, no participant has hit a tougher house run off a 100-plus mph pitch. Ohtani’s is 4 full mph tougher than the following house run, a 113.7 mph shot by Rafael Devers off a 100.1 mph fastball from Gerrit Cole.
