Spin causes movement, so you want to throw a tight spinning slider. As you release the pitch, pull down with your fingers and let the ball roll off your fingertips to spin the ball as fast as possible. When throwing a fastball, you are trying for backspin, but with a slider, you are...
I’m able to quickly tell that the pitch was a fastball right down the pipe, I put everything I had into that swing, a rip the ball into deep right-center field. The ball takes one bounce and hits the fence. So I take off, like I was being chased by some lions in the African...
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Rodriguez has leaned into that fastball profile by pounding four-seamers up-and-in toward righties, and up-and-away from lefties. That stays true from the heater that inevitably starts his game, to the end of his outing. You can't just pump fastballs down the middle to steal strikes in...
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What is a two-seam fastball? The two-seam fastball is a type of pitch in baseball that is similar to a four-seam pitch in a lot of ways. The way that the ball is thrown by the pitcher means that the ball will spin and travel extremely fast for a baseball pitch. This is ideal if...
In my mind, I am thing if he pitches a fast ball I am going to swing for the heavens. The pitcher throws a fast ball. I can see the ball moving towards me as if it was moving in slow motion. My eyes zoom in on the ball like a pair of binoculars. I swing it is a hit ...
Fast-forwarding a few decades, the tail end of the ‘90s swerved away from murky grunge to horn-flavored ska and some bluesey seasoning sprinkled over the top of radio-friendly rock. Fastball’s “The Way” and “What I Got” by Sublime wove in elements of reggae and blues into their...
To become a great pitcher, you have to throw more than fastballs. In fact, the better variety of pitches you have in your arsenal, the more you can confuse a batter. However, in order to practice throwing it’s common to use a baseball and if you don’t have one it can make thing...
Fast-forward six years. You never know what you’ll see on any given day at the ballpark. The Pine Tar Game is a quintessential example of the unknown universe of possibilities surrounding a baseball game when the first pitch is thrown. Most of the contest was rather ordinary. Through the...