 with the first pitch fastball fastball averages 91 miles an hour and he throws a slider around 80 occasional cutter in the upper 80s he slings it home and wicker starts to move the bat holds up they'll appeal as to say how the umpire at third says no swing and it's 2-0 wicker's walk bounce to third bounce to short Jake Diekmann two-thirds of an inning in the seventh struck out both men that he faced