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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.
Varieties of curveball include the 12–6 curveball, power curveball, and the knuckle curve. Its close relatives are the slider and the slurve. The "curve" of the ball varies from pitcher to pitcher. The expression "to throw a curveball" essentially translates to introducing a significant deviation to a preceding concept.
Historically, the term "knuckle curve" had a usage that was different from what it has in the game today. Many current pitchers throw a curveball using a grip with the index finger touching the ball with the knuckle or fingertip (also called a spike curve). This modern pitch is unrelated to the knuckleball.
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In baseball, an off-speed pitch is a pitch thrown at a slower speed than a fastball. Breaking balls and changeups are the two most common types of off-speed pitches. Very slow pitches which require the batter to provide most of the power on contact through bat speed are known as "junk" and include the knuckleball and the Eephus pitch, a sort of extreme changeup. [1]
Pitching coach Mel Harder, a four-time All-Star with the Indians in the 1930s, taught Wynn how to throw a curveball, slider, and knuckleball; Wynn had the curveball and slider "mastered" by the middle of the 1949 season, according to Fleitz.
His strikeout pitch to Lindor — a full-count knuckle-curveball that ducked beneath a monstrous hack from the Mets’ superstar shortstop — was vintage Buehler. He bounced off the mound in a ...
Flaherty's fastball velocity dropped 1.9 mph from his season average and the spin rate was down markedly on his four-seam fastball and knuckle-curve. “He wasn’t sharp, clearly,” Dodgers ...