What are some not so common baseball pitches?
Question:such as gyroball, spitball. Does anyone know of any really crazy pitches?
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1. Knuckleball2. Splitfinger Fastball
3. Curve
4. Slider
5. Palmball
6. Forkball
7. Ephus Pitch (think that’s what it was called)
8. Sinker
9. Changeup
10. Seamball
11. Sluver
12. Spittball
I've heard of a rare pitch called the palm ball.
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Well, the spitter is illegal. Any pitch that relies on the bar being marred in any way or having a foreign substance applied to it is illegal. Another formerly popular pitch along those lines is the scuff ball.Legal pitches would include the Ephus (looks like a slow pitch softball pitch but thrown overhand), screwball, circle change, slurve, and the knuckleball. Some people throw each of those (except a true Ephus) regularly, but a really good one is not as common.
Oh, and the palm ball someone else mentioned is another form of changeup. Basically acts the same as any other normal changeup, just a different grip.
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Many pitches of a different name do the same thing. What makes them weird or unusual is how the ball is held(one seam, two seam, etc.), delivered(regular, side arm, submarine), it's velocity(hard, off-speed), and its intended location. The bottom line is..in what way does it fool the batter. Half of these pitches...gyroball, palmball, etc., are fancy terms for sliders (with unusual rotation). They end up in the same location, and take the same path as a slider.Is there anyone here on sports1234.com that.?
Knuckle curve.Fosh ball -- a Mike Boddicker special. Thrown with the third and fourth fingers. Boddicker would sometimes invent a pitch on the mound just to try something different to get guys out.
Arm slot during delivery also makes a difference. I once watched Clemens get two strikes on Canseco -- back when he was young and quite a dangerous hitter -- and Rocket came at him with a sidearm motion. Canseco tied himself in a knot swinging at it; totally surprised. Strike three. I don't know of another time Clemens tried that.
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Yes the gyroball is a one-of-a-kind pitch and Dice-K has perfected that. Not just a splitball, but a cutting splitball. There is a split-curveball. The knuckle and screwball of course.Slurve ball, euphus ball, and the palm ball are all uncommon pitches.The change up is a very hard pitch to throw because of the change in velocity compared to other pitches. I know that everyone has heard of a change up, but there are not too many pitchers who have command of it.But personally, my favorite pitch is the Breaking Ball and there is only one person who can throw it perfectly and that is Derrick Turnbow (Brewers). It gets up high by the shoulders and then, when u least expect it, it drop down the middle of the plate at the very last second. When Turnbow has command of that pitch he is unstoppable. Thats why he was an all-star last season, and thats why he has 21 K's in only 12 innings of pitching this season.
Well lets see:
The screwball, which breaks opposite of a curve, riding in on a righty when thrown by a righty.
The knuckle curve, which is similar to a curveball.
The forkball, which was the predecessor to the splitter.
The knuckle change, the overhand curve, the slurve, the eephus pitch.
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palm ball,screwball,eephus,spitball... and the gyroball is a myth just created to hype up dice-k,to which he has lived up to. most pitches like the knuckle-curve,slurve,change-up... others are getting more and more common. the change and slider are thrown by almost every pitcher except a few like tim wakefield who only throws a true knuckleball,a 4-seamer which barely reaches 80, and either a change or a curve.More Questions & Answers...