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2. Fastball - Wikipedia

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   The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball. Its distinctive feature is its high speed. "Power pitchers," such as former major leaguers Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, relied on the speed, often exceeding 100mph, and movement of their fastballs to prevent the ball from being hit. [1]

3. Four-seam fastball - Wikipedia

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   Finger grip on a four-seam fastball Finger grip on a four-seam fastball. The four-seam fastball is designed purely for velocity; it travels to the batter's box with little or no "break" from straight-line flight—the intent being to challenge the batter's reaction time instead of fooling him with a pitch that breaks downward or to one side or the other.

4. Cut fastball - Wikipedia

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   A common technique for throwing a cutter is to use a four-seam fastball grip with the baseball set slightly off center in the hand. [2] A batter hitting a cutter pitch often achieves only soft contact and an easy out due to the pitch's movement keeping the ball away from the bat's sweet spot. The cutter is typically 2–5 mph slower than a ...

5. Are sliders destined to overtake fastballs as baseball's ...

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   Last season, MLB hitters managed a .212/.265/.355 batting line against sliders and sweepers, whiffing on 34.2% of their swings. Against fastballs, their line was .262/.346/.425, and they whiffed ...

6. After 'long funk' and struggles with fastballs, has Will ...

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   From 2020 to 2022, Smith did much of his damage against four-seam fastballs, batting .292 against the pitch with a .588 slugging percentage, 21 home runs and only an 18.6% whiff rate.

7. List of Major League Baseball single-game records - Wikipedia

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   2 pinch-hit grand slams (by batters on different teams) in a game 1 b: Baseball Almanac: 10 home runs by one team in a game 1 c: Baseball Almanac: Home runs by same 2 consecutive batters twice in same inning 1 d: AP Online: 5 sacrifice flies by one team in a game 2 e: CBS Sportsline: 9 or more home runs by one team in a game 2: Baseball Almanac ...

8. First-pitch strike - Wikipedia

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   In Burley's study, he used stats from the 2003 MLB season. He found that when a pitcher throws a strike on the first pitch of the at bat, hitters collected a .261 batting average. But if the first pitch was a ball, their batting average jumped to .280, a substantial difference.

9. Pitching machines inspire a new MLB arms race - AOL

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   Hitters get better the more they see a pitcher in the same game. Pitchers facing a lineup for the first time in 2022 strike out 23.3% of batters and hold them to a .236/.310/.378 line. They have a ...