Castillo, a speedy leadoff hitter, extended the streak when he topped a 1-0 pithatthat pitcher Danys Baez fielded on the second hop between the mound and plate.
Again, this helped tap tropical moisture, and the airflow also contained an embedded pocket of extra-speedy wind, called a "jet streak" (outlined in a heavy blue line).
After a deflating 9-5 loss to the Dodgers ended their three-game winning streak, they had a host of reasons for their speedy exits.
In a go-kart, streaking along just inches off the track, that is speedy enough to make you wonder whether you really want to go much faster.
At 14 09, John Mitchell scored his first goal as a Ranger, burying a crafty drop pass from the speedy rookie Carl Hagelin after Hagelin drew a defenseman to him by streaking horizontally across the Penguins' zone.
But the days of Bronko Nagurski and Andy Robustelli dominating college football have given way to a different kind of college football player: speedy black athletes from small towns in the South, often possessed of an independent streak.
The speedy, loop-the-looping Sonic the Hedgehog, who zoomed through halfpipes and cut a blue streak across any obstacle, who furrowed his brow and tapped his foot impatiently at idle players, became the hottest thing on the school playground.
First, speedy forward Andrew Cogliano motored to a short-handed third-period goal to end Minnesota goalie Darcy Kuemper's season-starting shutout streak at 163 minutes, 51 seconds.
WARRIORS 96, NUGGETS 87 Speedy Claxton scored 17 of his career-high 25 points in the fourth quarter for host Golden State, snapping Denver's three-game winning streak.
Speedy Claxton scored a career-high 28 points and had 6 assists as the WARRIORS ended the host GRIZZLIES' five-game winning streak, 99-92.
