Breaking ball
Slow Curve
A curveball thrown way down in speed, a big slow looping change of pace meant to wreck a hitter's timing. Dialed down far enough, it starts to blur into the lobbing eephus.
The grip
Essentially the same curveball shape, just dialed way down in effort and speed to function as a big looping change-of-pace.
What it does
A high, slow, looping arc meant to disrupt timing; at the extreme slow end it blurs into the eephus — Zack Greinke has floated curves slow enough to brush that line, the modern descendant of the classic lob pitch.
Who throws itZack Greinke
Study this first
Dialed down far enough, the slow curve blurs into the lob. The filed Eephus is that extreme, the rainbow change-of-pace this one is reaching toward when Greinke floats it.
Basic file
This pitch has a sourced one-line grip and movement and an honest explanation, not yet a filed specimen with authored grip geometry and a full craft chapter. A fuller breakdown is coming. Sourced, not corrected.
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