Rojas wears one of the team’s five PitchCom receivers in his cap. It tells him what the pitcher is throwing and where. It helps his pre-pitch setup. For example, if it is a right-handed batter and the pitcher is going to throw a fastball away, he might begin his first movement to...
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 ...
A good softball pitcher will have a variety of pitches at the fast pitch level, the most common being the fastball, rise ball and change up. However, breaking pitches like a curveball and screwball are great pitches to add to your repertoire. Though pitches in softball and baseball are simi...
He throws fastballs to lefties a quarter of the time, down from 46.2% of the time in 2022. He’s leading with the cutter and leaning more on his slider and curve. As I wrote during spring training, this was part of the plan. Gray’s four-seamer was dead last on our pitch ...
If this week was any indication, he’s close to finding that balance. He homered Monday night on a hanging changeup over the plate, then went deep again Tuesday on a 95-mph fastball well above the strike zone. Dodgers Hernández: The Dodgers hope Walker Buehler can pull off the impossibl...
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...
start throwing one. A curve ball is slower than a fastball and breaks down. It breaks from 12 to 6. If the strike zone was a clock, a curve ball would start at the 12 and end up at the 6. You should throw this pitch when you are ahead in the count and can put the batter ...
How To:Coach Young Softball Players to Pitch a Fastball ByClubHouseGAS 03/08/2016 3:03 am Softball Softball is essentially the opposite of baseball… but not really. Softball is always associated and stigmatized with weaker pitching, but softball pitchers can pitch just as fast as baseball playe...
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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...