LSU drew first blood at the top of the second inning when an error by the Sooners ' second baseman led to Tanner Reaves and ...

What we have now with Singer is a pitcher with three versions of a fastball (sinker, cutter, four-seamer) that are all within 3.5 mph of one another, but attack different parts of the strike zone and ...

That spring session started Hoffman down a path that saw him — the Toronto Blue Jays’ first-round pick in 2014, who spun his ...

The pitch circle, which is roughly in the middle of the ... They can replace spur gears in any application. The teeth are cut following a slanted, helical path. The angled teeth engage more gradually ...

When is a pitch a pitch? When is a new pitch type born? Who gets credit? At some point, the slider was not a thing. Then ...

The New York Yankees knew they were heading into the 2025 season with a few hurdles on the pitching front, but few expected ...

“Right now, it’s playing like a splitter to where it’s not cut, it doesn’t have an arm-side movement, but it’s just dropping down,” said Leiter of the pitch. “More drop than sideways ...

Francisco Lindor is getting used to playing in the cold after his October heroics. He drove the Mets to a walk-off win on ...

Now, he has expanded to a legitimate four-pitch mix, bordering on five as his cutter is a weapon he started tinkering with in 2024, honed over the offseason and spring and is ready to unleash in ...

But on Tuesday, Webb was a four-pitch guy, and he bordered on five pitches. He has full faith in his cutter, developed last season and sharpened this spring, and he’ll mix in the occasional four ...