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Pitching 101

Four-seamer, 2-seamer, change-up, curveball, slider, split-finger, forkball, knuckleball. I ran into this 1-page pdf file from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from a few years back. You get photos of exactly how to grip the ball, and a description and diagram of how to throw it and what each pitch does. It definitely cleared up some questions for me ... maybe for you, too?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/pdf/pitchingpage.pdf

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Re: Pitching 101
This is a similar link that I bookmarked a couple of months ago that has some more diagrams, if anyone's interested.

by zempf on Nov 30, 2007 9:13 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Pitching 101
Cool, thanks!

Which one is a cutter?

by JulioBernazard on Nov 30, 2007 6:02 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Pitching 101
Finally, a question I can answer around here:

"Cut" refers to counter-clockwise spin on the ball (from a right-hander) -- spinning the ball off your middle finger as opposed to your index finger, which would be "curve". A cutter is a fastball with slider-like spin.

by fleerdon on Dec 1, 2007 9:13 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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a slider like spin in the opposite direction right? with presumably less spin driven force correct? than the slider, resulting in more left-right movement than up-down that usually occurs with the slider right?

by hans on Dec 2, 2007 6:00 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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