Dodgers’ Edgardo Henriquez Throws 103.6 MPH Sinker, Makes MLB History

For most pitchers, touching 103.6 mph would be the kind of moment that defines a season. For Dodgers reliever Edgardo Henriquez, it is beginning to look almost routine.

The 24-year-old right-hander began the bottom of the eighth inning Saturday by unleashing a front-door sinker that left Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler frozen. The pitch clipped the edge of the zone for strike three, and Dingler immediately asked for a review.

“Got him looking! A 104-mile-per-hour sinker,” the broadcast announcer said as the stadium reacted to the overpowering pitch.

The automated ball-strike system upheld the call, and Statcast later put an exact number on it: 103.6 mph with a spin rate of 2,439 rpm.

According to MLB, it was the fastest strikeout pitch by a Dodgers pitcher since pitch tracking began in 2008, providing a brief spark in an otherwise disappointing 2-1 loss to Detroit.

He entered Saturday responsible for 22 of the fastest tracked pitches thrown by a Dodger and 14 of the franchise’s 16 fastest strikeout pitches. The sinker tied his career high, first reached June 2 against the Diamondbacks.

His normal velocity explains why the singular bursts barely seem singular. Baseball Savant lists Henriquez’s average 2026 sinker at 100.8 mph and his four-seamer at 100.5. Most relievers chase triple digits. Henriquez lives there.

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In August 2025, his 103.3 mph four-seamer to Ryan O’Hearn matched Jonathan Broxton’s Dodgers tracking-era record. One year later, that benchmark resembles an early chapter.

Velocity alone did not make Saturday’s pitch effective. Henriquez located the sinker on the edge, leaving Dingler enough doubt to challenge but not enough to change the result.

The Dodgers could not turn the milestone into a win as their late-season problems continued to stack up. Henriquez nevertheless supplied a scoreless eighth and another reminder that the extraordinary has become his baseline.

The next 103 mph pitch may arrive without a record attached. That is how wild velocity becomes ho-hum history: Henriquez reaches these numbers so often that the surprise is no longer the speed, only the new label it receives.

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