What was the slowest pitch ever to be clocked in an official Major League game?
I know Mark Redman and Tim Wakefield are some slow pitchers but are/were there pitchers that go below 50 or even 40 mph?
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Probably 25 mph when a bird got smeared by Randy Johnson a few years ago. The ball was probably going 95 but the bird slowed it down.10 mph once
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10 mph? wow.. that sucks! lol... ive only seen low as 70.Should Joe Torre be fired after a bad April?
El Duque as Yankee once threw a 50 mph pitch to AROD and got away with it he threw another one and he wsn't soo lucky as AROD crushed it!A knuckle ball by Sparks or Wakefield is about mid 50's or 60's
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A few pitchers have thrown what is called an "Eephus pitch", which is like a slow pitch softball pitch. I don't know that one has been clocked, but it would have to be the slowest pitch.Here's more:
An Eephus pitch, in baseball, is considered a "junk" pitch with very low speed. The delivery from the pitcher has very low velocity and usually catches the hitter off-guard. Its invention is attributed to Rip Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1930s. According to manager Frankie Frisch, the pitch was named by outfielder Maurice Van Robays. When asked what it meant, van Robays replied “Eephus ain’t nothin’.”
The Eephus pitch is thrown overhand like most pitches, but is characterized by an unusual high arcing trajectory and corresponding slow velocity, bearing more resemblance to a slow-pitch softball delivery than to a traditional baseball pitch. It is considered a trick pitch because, in comparison to normal baseball pitches (which run from 70 to 100 miles per hour), an Eephus pitch appears to move in slow motion. Hitters typically get very anxious, swing wildly, and ground out.
After appearing in over 300 major league games, Rip Sewell only gave up one career home run off the Eephus, to Ted Williams in the 1946 All-Star Game. Williams challenged Sewell to throw the Eephus. Sewell obliged, and Williams missed the pitch. However, Sewell then announced that he was going to throw the pitch again, and Williams clobbered it for a home run.[citation needed] Years later, however, Williams admitted that he had been running towards the pitcher’s mound as he hit the ball, and photographs reveal that he was in fact a few feet in front of the batter’s box when he made contact. Since under Rule 6.06(a) of the Official Baseball Rules a batter is out for illegal action when he hits a ball with one or both feet on the ground entirely outside the batter’s box, Williams would have been out had it been spotted by an umpire.
Pitchers known to have employed the Eephus pitch include: Dave LaRoche (whose pitch was known as LaLob), Bob Tewksbury, Kazuhito Tadano, and Orlando Hernandez. Left-hander Bill Lee, known as “The Space Man,” threw a variant of it he called the Space Ball, or, occasionally, the Leephus. In Game 7 of the 1975 World Series, Lee twice retired future Hall of Famer Tony Perez of the Cincinnati Reds with the pitch.[citation needed] The third time Perez came up, however, Lee tried it again, only to have Perez hit a homer that set the stage for a Reds come-from-behind win of the game and the World Series. There were reports that Perez hit the ball so hard that the Boston outfielders didn’t even bother turning their heads to watch it fly. After the game, the ever-philosophical Lee quipped, “Live by the slow curve, die by the slow curve.”
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Dave LaRoche, the journeyman reliever, and father to 2 active major leaguers, Adam and ? threw LaLob. It was clocked at 34 mph, in the summer of 81 while Laroche pitched for the Yankees...Even owner George Steinbrenner asked/told LaRoche NOT to throw the pitch, as he felt it embarrassed big league hitters...LaRoche without much of an arsenal however, continued to thro the pitch, for 2 seasons with the yanks.More Questions & Answers...