Word: changeup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue himself admits to no tricks. "My repertory consists of three basic pitches: fastball, curve and changeup. I throw them all the same, lefthanded." You couldn't prove it by such heavy-hitting...
...undeniable effectiveness of his fastball, Blue has ambitions to be even better. "The more I pitch," he says, "the more I realize that I'm going to have to change speeds. That's the kind of pitcher I want to be. The 3-2 curve, the 3-2 changeup with the bases loaded. That's guts. But those are things I'm going to have to learn." He has already started. Early in the season, his approach was to "blow them down," meaning that he threw the fastball 90% of the time. Now he goes with the hard one only...
Brown, which had managed only three hits in the first five innings, put the tying run on in the sixth by virtue of a walk to Dean Hoag. Kelly, obviously trying to nurse the lead, delivered a belt-high, hanging changeup to outfielder Wayne Matthews, Matthews responded by sending the errant pitch into the Logan airport landing pattern and giving the Bruins their short-lived lead...