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Stories like these, of the pitches that don't work out, are told far less often than the successes that permeate Pitching Ninja's sizzle reels. These failures are the banes of pitchers' existence, ...
But let's talk about this filthy pitch, a sweeper that starts outside to Seattle Mariners slugger Rowdy Tellez and comes darting back over the outside corner for strike three. It apparently had ...
These days, every season seems to have a trendy new pitch: the high-spin four-seamer a while back, the sweeper two years ago, ...
He allowed just 3 hits and struck out 6. One of those strikeouts came on an insane sweeper pitch. Skenes caught Lowe looking for a called third strike in the top of the fourth inning. The 82-mph ...
For this pitch to kick into sweeper or splinker territory, though, it needs a champion. It needs a Bender, it needs a Paul Skenes, it needs a pitcher everyone wants to emulate. There are certainly ...
It's Wednesday, which means it's time for us to visit the bump on Hump Day and discuss starting pitcher news. Each week in this article, I'll be taking a deeper look at a few trending/surging starting ...
There seemed this time to be a bit more spring in Duran’s step, possibly because it was a particularly nasty looking pitch, one he had never thrown before in a game: a sweeper. Sweepers are a ty ...
Andrea Arcadipane dives deep into the pitch mix of a struggling Tanner Houck and also notes positive changes made by three breakout hitters.