Trevor Williams thought his fastball was coming out of his hand a little "hotter" than normal Saturday. Perhaps it was because of the 93-degree heat. Or that he was pitching a simulated game with his teammates again at PNC Park.
Or maybe it was because he was happy to just to be back on a real mound.
"In Phoenix, all the fields outside got shut down," Williams said during a Zoom call after his workout Saturday. "They were really open for like a week or two, so I only was able to throw on a field twice, and it was at a high school field, which is fine, and they were great fields.