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...increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left-handed hitter's body and still make it break over the plate, opposite from the movement of a curve or slider. The Atlanta Braves' Greg Maddux is the high priest of the pitch, but Reynolds estimates 30 or more hurlers are using it--with great success. "It's really deceptive," he says. "It's scaring hitters...
...free agent under Japan's contract system.) "I'd like to try," he said recently. He certainly has the statistics to interest American scouts. At 1.78 m and 78 kg, Matsuzaka has a mean fastball, clocked as high as 156 km/h, which he mixes with his other pitches: a slider, a change-up and a curve. He went straight from high school to the pros, a rarity in Japan, and in his initial season he won 16 games. This year, he has 12 wins?the most victories in the Pacific League?and only five losses, though he has struggled with...
...After the first two pitches I thought to myself, 'Man, that kid is probably going to throw me a slider,'" Lee told reporters after the game. "So I just closed my eyes, swung, and the rest, as they say, is history...
...fact of the matter is, Rocker will get another chance. There aren't too many left-handed pitchers who throw mid-to-high 90s and have a put-away pitch like his slider. He'll also come for cheap, reportedly...
...Santos got ahead in the count starting in the fifth," Binkowski said. "And he started throwing his slider for strikes. He was throwing it in the fourth, but it didn't have much bite and I think he was nervous, it being Fenway...