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Why the curveball is taking over the game
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:09 pm
https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/05/23/curveball-clayton-kershaw-lance-mccullers#
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No pitch has ended more aspiring careers than the curve. As former Kentucky congressman Ben Chandler once said on behalf of the great diaspora who know the feeling too well, “I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball.”
No pitch causes major league hitters to freeze more often. No pitch has inspired more legends, myths, fear, grips, nicknames, and ooohs and aaahs. It is a wonder of physics, geometry and art, a beautiful, looping arc through space made possible by the interplay between gravity and the Magnus force—a result of the flow of air around the spinning sphere—that often leaves us, and the hitter, paralyzed in wonderment.
This season marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the first curveball (and its first controversy). So it’s fitting that McCullers and the red-hot Houston Astros are at the forefront of a revolution in pitching. Spin is in. Thanks partly to technology and the ubiquity of high velocity, the curveball is enjoying a very happy 150th birthday.
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Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:46 pm to beatbammer
The change up is superior
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:49 pm to beatbammer
I remember the first good curve pitched to me. I thought it was coming for my head and I jumped out of the box. Broke over for a strike.
I probably subconsciously knew then I didn't have a career in baseball ahead of me.
I probably subconsciously knew then I didn't have a career in baseball ahead of me.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:52 pm to beatbammer
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Why the curveball is taking over the game
Well it's not straight for one. Hitting a baseball is hard enough as it is. Add in a ball moving through multiple planes, then it becomes harder. It should go without saying that a pitcher wants to make it as hard as possible on a batter.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:56 pm to beatbammer
Ain't nothing like seeing a hanger getting CRUSHED...
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:03 pm to AgCoug
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I remember the first good curve pitched to me. I thought it was coming for my head and I jumped out of the box. Broke over for a strike.
I probably subconsciously knew then I didn't have a career in baseball ahead of me.
just a shame that the little league dad's in Bellaire were cool with tossing the curve in 5th grade or else I could have gotten a few more seasons in.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:11 pm to AgCoug
quote:Same. One of my friend's dad pitched in the Majors, and the first time he threw a curve ball I jumped backwards just like you. Looked like it was coming at my head and it ended up being a strike low and away. It was unbelievable.
I remember the first good curve pitched to me. I thought it was coming for my head and I jumped out of the box. Broke over for a strike. I probably subconsciously knew then I didn't have a career in baseball ahead of me.
And he was a pretty low-level unknown MLB pitcher who was long retired. I can only imagine the curve some of the best had in their prime.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:18 pm to beatbammer
Change planes. Change speeds.
Not news.
Not news.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:31 pm to PrimeTime Money
Ron Guidry pitched to me when I was in 8th grade and he threw a curve that I jumped out of the way of thinking he was beaning me and it went perfectly over the plate. Felt like an idiot.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:50 pm to CelticDog
I see some of y'all didn't bother reading the article.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 3:01 pm to AgCoug
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I remember the first good curve pitched to me. I thought it was coming for my head and I jumped out of the box. Broke over for a strike.
Yeah I remember seeing you too.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 3:04 pm to chalmetteowl
Base ball was my first love and I was a damn good switch hitting second baseman/ short stop the i preferred second base.
I could hit a curve. If u look at the spin and not where the ball is you know its coming back though how much will depend on the pitcher. You'd probably get me with the first one but don't throw it again and you better not leavers it hanging
But the first time I saw a REAL change up by someone who was a future professional pitcher I knew then I had no future in baseball. A. Good change up is the most unhittable pitch in baseball u literally have to guess. There is nothing in the pitchers motion to suggest its not a regular two seamer. I got so fooled on one I threw the bat and hit my team mate in the batter box in the head
I never understood dudes jumping out the box in fear of being hit its just a badeball. If I knew I was gonna get hit id turn so thAT the ball would hit my back or duck so it would hit my helmet I was cool as long as it didn't hit my hand worst feeling on earth
I could hit a curve. If u look at the spin and not where the ball is you know its coming back though how much will depend on the pitcher. You'd probably get me with the first one but don't throw it again and you better not leavers it hanging
But the first time I saw a REAL change up by someone who was a future professional pitcher I knew then I had no future in baseball. A. Good change up is the most unhittable pitch in baseball u literally have to guess. There is nothing in the pitchers motion to suggest its not a regular two seamer. I got so fooled on one I threw the bat and hit my team mate in the batter box in the head
I never understood dudes jumping out the box in fear of being hit its just a badeball. If I knew I was gonna get hit id turn so thAT the ball would hit my back or duck so it would hit my helmet I was cool as long as it didn't hit my hand worst feeling on earth
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 3:20 pm to vengeanceofrain
If he was in the batter's box, he deserved it. His dumb arse should have been in the on-deck circle.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 4:59 pm to BoardReader
I loved hitting the curveball because my bat speed sucked already. I preferred sitting back and hoping for the slow pitches.
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