How to identify baseball pitches
If you’ve ever wanted to identify baseball pitches by just watching them on TV, this video is for you. That’s right. A whole video just about how to identify pitches that you see when you watch baseball games on TV. Have you ever said “what pitch is that?”
Identifying pitches becomes relatively easy once you start paying attention to the velocity and movement of each pitch, and becomes even easier once you start to know which pitches various pitchers throw.
This video will also help if you’ve ever had these questions:
What is a four seam fastball? What does a four seam fastball look like?
What is a two seam fastball? What does a two seam fastball look like?
What is a sinker? What does a sinker look like?
Is a sinker the same thing as a two seam fastball?
What is a curveball? What is a slider? What is a breaking ball? What is a splitter? What is a cutter?
What is a knuckleball? What does a slider look like? What does a cutter look like?
Hope this video is helpful! This is the first video on this channel. Let me know what you think!
it would really help if during the audio explanation of each pitch, you re-played the same video clips several times. the constantly changing video (different pitchers) makes it harder to focus only on the ball movement.
Thanks. This was exactly what i needed
Knuckle?
How MLB the Show doesn’t look like this? 🤔
I’m just getting into baseball and sabermetrics. This video has upped my baseball IQ from 22 to 85 easily! Thank you for your efforts and slick editing!
Sweeper and knucklecurves.
Would be nice to highlight finger positioning for each respective pitch
"A cutter is like a sinker, and it is a sinker, but it’s a different. It’s a cutter." My head hurts.
Fernando Valenzuela. King of screwballs
Fernando Valenzuela had one of the best screwball out there
What about a spit ball?
It would have been very nice to see the hand grip for each pitch.
what’s the name of the song?
Spitball???
I was always the best hitter on my teams. My strategy was to just see if it curved and the speed of the pitch. That’s it
I use to catch for a knuckle-baller. I’d go home all bruised up after every outing. I hated that guy but he was almost unhittable.
No screwball examples? 👎
i’ve just developed a new pitch….the knurve. it will revolutionize the sport IMO. it’s has 3 seam grip. that i can tell you.
I suppose the screwball has to be viewed with a security clearance…
I’m saving this link for future reference
i umpired little league for 3 years, both behind the plate and not, AND STILL, i have trouble identifying pitches. i some times wonder if the PITCHER even knows what just came out of his hand!! lol
cheers. i guess running fastball and sinker are both two seamers, maybe running has a bit more left right movement. good on acknowledging the screwball
i can’t tell the difference between a splitter and a downward cutter
Splitter and a curve is tough for me to differentiate
No pictures of a screwball? You know that they had television when Valenzuela pitched, right?
Such an angelic face and beautiful voice 😍
what about the… palomita
How did you forget the circle change
Yes, yes, yes, very informative upload and everything, and thank you for it. But it is narrated by Anthony Jeselnik, yeah?
This is a great video! It does a great job explaining in simply terms and I’m not sure why this hasn’t been created sooner.
Screwball, look at Fernando Valenzuela
So you’re telling me this whole time it was never called a breaky ball?
4 seam: speed, little to no movement
2 seam/sinker: 4 seam but has movement
slider: moves towards the pitchers gloveside
curveball: has significant downwards movement
cutter: appears like a fastball but then cuts (hence the name) at the last second towards the pitchers gloveside. so a faster slider but way less break
changeup: fastball but slower (thats literally all it is, becomes self-explanatory once you learn the pitch)
splitter: has changeup speeds but has more downwards movement
forkball: splitter on crack
knuckleball: slowest pitch speeds in the game but extremely unpredictable due to its movement which is why no one throws it anymore
Brent Honeywell gave you the screwball footage!
2 seam & cutter in your arsenal is FILTY. Toss a change-up every now and again.. easy work
I would love to see another video of the pitching from the catcher POV… Please make one…
So two seam and sinker are the same? .. .. wait no theyre differnt right?
Love from Scotland. 🏴
Is no one gonna talk abt how the op put “he got that reverse curveball” but a reverse curveball is just a rising fastball?
Great job!
Missing the queen’s spiral here.
One of the best videos to ever describe pitches and their differences. Thank you for posting.
great video, top to bottom
Superb Video
This guy sounds like Anthony Jeselnik.
3:51
That’s my favorite pitch type, a batting kryptonite that’s effective 99% of the time.
Ya, great video.. IMO they are all "Curve balls". Fast, slow… whatever….. Can’t believe that humans can even hit them.
Great video
3:37 NOOO
A knuckleball could be considered a fast ball in some cases because a lot of people who throw it get it to about 90-97 mph