Bartolo Colon fouled off a pitch at 101 mph, swung out of his helmet and tossed 8 shutout innings

Bartolo Colon threw eight shutout innings against the Braves on Monday night, striking out seven along the way in the Mets' 4-1 victory. A performance like that is why Colon -- the oldest player in baseball at 42 -- is still a mainstay in a Major League rotation. His at-bats in the first and fourth inning, however, are why he is a legend.

In the first inning, like Paul Bunyan felling a titanic maple, Colon sliced his bat through the air and fouled off a 94-mph fastball from Mike Foltynewicz -- sending the ball zooming into the left-field foul territory with an exit velocity off his bat of 101.9 mph.
"I don't think I've ever hit a ball as hard as I hit that," Colon told MLB.com's Anthony DiComo after the game.
Well, it was his hardest-hit ball of the season so far, but not his hardest-hit ball recorded by Statcast™. He's hit two harder: A foul on June 6, 2015, against the D-backs that left Colon's bat at 104 mph, and a single in that same at-bat at 102.4 mph:

And yet, if hitting the ball nearly as hard as he can wasn't enough, Colon followed up in the fourth by swinging out of his helmet. As he is wont to do:

On top of all that, Bartolo earned his 220th career victory and now has the second-most wins of any MLB pitcher born in the Dominican Republic, sliding past none other than Pedro Martinez.  
He wins some, he loses some, but he's always a Legend.