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It is commonly thrown by right-handed Japanese pitchers such as Hiroki Kuroda, Noboru Akiyama, Kenjiro Kawasaki, Daisuke Matsuzaka, [1] Yu Darvish [2] and Masumi Kuwata. [3] The most renowned shuuto pitcher in history was Masaji Hiramatsu, whose famous pitch was dubbed the razor shuuto because it seemed to "cut the air" when thrown.
Daisuke Matsuzaka: Familiar with the gyroball, Matsuzaka has stated that he can throw the gyroball, however cannot do so on a consistent basis.A careful computer analysis of Matsuzaka's pitches for the Boston Red Sox for the first half of the 2007 season by Dan Fox of Baseball Prospectus suggests that while Matsuzaka commands a dazzling array of pitches, the gyroball is more myth than reality.
2 Junji Ikoma def. Junji Sarumaru: April 29, 2011 3 Mikihito Yamagami: November 5, 2011 1. def. Junji Sarumaru on September 30, 2012: Yamagami vacated the title in December 2013 when he moved up in weight. [28] 4 Shinya Murofushi def. Junji Sarumaru: January 13, 2014 5 Yoshitaka Naito: September 27, 2014 1. def. Ryuta Sawada on July 26, 2015
The extremes of the meantone systems encountered in historical practice are the Pythagorean tuning, where the whole tone corresponds to 9:8, i.e. (3:2) 2 / 2 , the mean of the major third (3:2) 4 / 4 , and the fifth (3:2) is not tempered; and the 1 ⁄ 3-comma meantone, where the fifth is tempered to the extent that three ...
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In Béla Bartók's piano piece, "Diminished Fifth" from Mikrokosmos, octatonic collections form the basis of the pitch content. In mm. 1–11, all eight pitch classes from the E ♭ diminished scale appear. In mm. 1–4, the pitch classes A, B, C, and D appear in the right hand, and the pitch classes E ♭, F, G ♭, and A ♭ are in
Among the others who have thrown it are John Gant, [2] former relievers Randy Tomlin [3] and Joe Nelson, [4] [5] and most notably former all-star closer Éric Gagné, for whom the vulcan changeup was considered one of his best pitches. [6] Roy Oswalt adopted this pitch during the 2010 offseason and preferred it over the circle changeup. [7]