Most baseball fans think of Cincinnati Reds centre fielder Billy Hamilton when they think of the fastest player in Major League Baseball, but we might need to start adding Minnesota Twins centre fielder Byron Buxton’s name to that conversation.
On Friday night, the 23-year-old was on fire against the Arizona Diamondbacks and he had a night to remember.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, Buxton smoked a ball off the right-centre-field wall and turned what would probably be a double for most players into an inside-the-park home run and he managed to pull it off in record time.
It took Buxton a total of 13.85 seconds to go from home-to-home and helped tie the game at 3-3. He ended up finishing 3-for-4 in the game and finished a single shy of the cycle.
The inside-the-park home run seemed to get the Twins going as they went on to score 7 more runs in the game to beat the Diamondbacks 10-3.
(H/T MLB)
