Cool, but I would be more impressed if the ball had managed to stay within the same zip code as the strike zone or fooled the batter into at least a half swing.
It falls into the eephus pitch category, and thus could be used as a changeup. Unless he can consistently throw it for strikes it won’t be successful, since a batter faced with it would probably fail to swing at it, as happened here.
It would be better to bean the batter with a baseball fired from an air cannon located in the stands behind him, because if sneaky is good, then sneakier is better.
September 16th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Wow. I don’t know what else to say to that. Just….
And then I have to ask how he came up with it and how much did he practice to get it right?
September 16th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Greatest ever? I dunno, this still amazes me…
September 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
For starters, that ball looked way the hell high and outside to me.
September 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Cool, but I would be more impressed if the ball had managed to stay within the same zip code as the strike zone or fooled the batter into at least a half swing.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Pretty cool, but it looked like they called it a strike.
If you could throw a strike that way, I think it would have some value, because the first few batters probably wouldn’t swing at it.
September 16th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Hokay, Fatboy. You try dat one again. I knock it to Godzirra Bay!
Good to see Japanese Umps are just as blind as ours.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Hmm… sneak attack… reminds me of something… can’t quite put my finger on it…
September 17th, 2009 at 2:36 am
It falls into the eephus pitch category, and thus could be used as a changeup. Unless he can consistently throw it for strikes it won’t be successful, since a batter faced with it would probably fail to swing at it, as happened here.
September 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I think you can only do it without anyone on base.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
It would be better to bean the batter with a baseball fired from an air cannon located in the stands behind him, because if sneaky is good, then sneakier is better.
September 18th, 2009 at 6:35 am
5 bucks says if that was tried here, they would call it a Balk.
Cool though!