How do you throw a sidearm 12-6 curveball?
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Doing what ans. # 2 suggested most often gives you a Wild
Pitch. If you happened to be pitching in one of the stadiums where gravity doesn't exist, you'd get a 6-12 curve, not a 12-6.
You can get close to a 12-6 sidearm pitch, buy it's actually the exact opposite of a curve. 12-6, regargless of which arm position you use requires getting on top and producing overspin. I threw this pitch regularly in HS and College and could get to about 11-5.
How? It requires head and body adjustments.
HEAD:
1) Get use to the fact that it is NOT going to break a foot and a half and you don't need it too.
2) Get use to the fact that you're you can't throw it as hard as you'll want to. And, again, you don't need to.
BODY
1) You have to open up much earlier than usual so that your arm position at release is a little behind normal
2)You have to open up much more. Your front foot has to land a foot or more toward the 1st base side of the straight line between you and the catcher (assuming you're rt . handed)
Keep it down and from the middle of the plate out to left handed hitters and your SS gets a weak grounder. Keep it mid. plate in to righties and your 3rd baseman get the weak grounder.
One last thing, and once in awhile it will happen. Remember that a 400 ft. foul all is nothing more than a strike.
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It would be more like a 3-5 curveball sidearmWhat does a baseball manager really do?
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You don't, a 12-6 curveball means you come from the top overhand position and snap downward to the bottom position.How to know how many single a baseball player has hit?
Throwing a 12 - 6 curveball from the sidearm position is rather difficult as it requires topspin on the ball to get the 'tumbling' action of a 12 - 6 curve. The best way I have found to describe this is think of the motion of the hand and wrist while throwing a screwball overhand. When you drop down to side arm this same motion will provide the topspin needed to get the tumbling action.More Questions & Answers...