Picking up where he left off after his scoreless three-inning start against the Phillies on the seventh, Jordan Montgomery steamrolled the Blue Jays batters for five more innings in a 1-0 win on Wednesday afternoon. The southpaw didn’t allow a hit and struck out four batters, issuing a single walk across 66 pitches in a scoreless outing, dropping his spring ERA to a minuscule 0.90.
Impressively, Montgomery’s sinker was clocked as fast as 94.5 mph, a significant jump above the 92.5 mph average speed of the same pitch in 2020, already the highest mark of any of his four big league seasons to date.