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Series of “Pitching grips”
four-seam fastball
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R. A. Dickey shows off his #knuckleball grip before tonight's game against the #Nationals in #New York. By @bmangin / SI
A post shared by Sports Illustrated (@sportsillustrated) on Sep 12, 2012 at 2:52pm PDT
Edwin Díaz's Slider Grip. pic.twitter.com/JShYHOozVp
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 23, 2019
(via Pointers from the Pros - Trevor Hoffman - YouTube)
Every pitcher has a signature pitch, or at least his favorite pitch of the moment. It all starts with how you hold the ball. Five Red Sox starters show how they get a grip when they need to get a big out.
LHP David Price: changeup
For a pitcher who can hit 98 miles per hour with his fastball, changing speeds is the best way to fool a hitter.
■ “I really enjoy throwing my changeup. To me, it’s my new toy and it’s something I learned at a little bit later age. To me, it’s still fairly fresh and fairly new.’
RHP Clay Buchholz: sinking fastball
Over his career, Buchholz has thrown eight different pitches. His sinker is the key to quick innings.
■ “[My favorite pitch] used to be a two-seam fastball. Josh Beckett showed me a one-seam fastball.”
RHP Joe Kelly: changeup
Kelly averaged 95 miles per hour with his fastball last season. But he’s an inveterate tinkerer with his secondary pitches.
■ “[I also throw] a two-seam one. Say I throw a two-seam fastball and I call a changeup after — I’ll go straight to the two-seam changeup.”
RHP Rick Porcello: sinking fastball
Red Sox coaches want Porcello to control the bottom of the strike zone. This is the pitch that can do that.
■ “Sometimes if I’m looking for a little bit more lateral run on it, if I’m trying to front-door a sinker on a lefty, I’ll slide my thumb up.”
LHP Eduardo Rodriguez: fastball
The young lefthander, who will miss the first few weeks of the season after being set back by a knee injury, had a successful rookie year in 2015 because of this pitch. He threw it 70 percent of the time.
■ “I think it’s more about how you locate the position of your hands. No matter how you hold the ball, it’s more how you put your hands in the front.”
The "Vulcan changeup" -- for which a pitcher splits his fingers down the middle, just like Spock, to grip the ball
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