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A common grip used to throw a slider. In baseball, a slider is a type of breaking ball, a pitch that moves or "breaks" as it approaches the batter.Due to the grip and wrist motion, the slider typically exhibits more lateral movement when compared to other breaking balls, such as the curveball.
A common grip of a slider. In baseball, a breaking ball is a pitch that does not travel straight as it approaches the batter; it will have sideways or downward motion on it, sometimes both (see slider). A breaking ball is not a specific pitch by that name, but is any pitch that "breaks", such as a curveball, slider, or screwball.
Here’s a (very good) traditional slider from New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, courtesy the omnipresent PitchingNinja Twitter account. Gerrit Cole, Dirty 89mph Slider. 😨 pic.twitter.com ...
In Major League history, the term knuckle curve or knuckle curveball has been used to describe three entirely different pitches. All are unrelated to the similar sounding knuckleball . The first, more modern and commonly used pitch called the knuckle curve is really a standard curveball , thrown with one or more of the index or middle fingers bent.
The prototypical slider is designed to look like a fastball and sit in a velocity band just below the fastball but swerve down and to the pitcher’s glove side just before reaching the plate.
Spencer Strider is throwing a curveball Strider laid waste to hitters last year, with an outrageous, league-leading 36.8 K% despite leaning on his fastball/slider combo a whopping 95% of the time.