The Hardest Pitches to Throw in Baseball

26 thoughts on “The Hardest Pitches to Throw in Baseball”

1. Forkball my favourite to throw

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2. splitter is an off speed, not a fastball

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3. I think cutter is hard

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4. My arsenal was sinker splitter slider and Changeup the hardest pitch I ever tried to throw was the knuckleball I couldn’t get it to not spin LOL

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5. They all looked the same to me

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6. I can throw a nasty slurve and I'm only 13

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7. The curveball/slurve isn’t hard to throw

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8. I would add the very rare classic eephus or "blooper" pitch with the steep height and eephus like pitches which are basically any breaking ball thrown at unusually slow speeds. Also, a type of changeup known as a "palm" ball is quite difficult to master. Any baseball history buff remembers the towering homer Ted Williams hit off of the originator of the eephus pitch, Rip Sewell in the 1946 All Star Game. A even more famous eephus pitch disaster happened in the 1975 World Series when Tony Perez for the Reds clobbered a HR off Bill "Spaceman" Lee of the Red Sox who was waiting for the pitch. That being said, these odd pitches can be very effective against many hitters when thrown at the right time but requires a lot of skill.

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9. I pitch a sidearm change up shutto

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10. ain’t no way the forkball is ranked #2 in hardest pitches

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11. Strike her out but use the strike zone as a bat and a bat as a strike zone

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12. Change is the easiest, just pick your method – circle change (make OK with thumb and index and hold ball with last three fingers), a palm or choke ball (put ball further into your hand and away from finger tips) or forkball (like a splitter but wider assuming your hand is big or supple enough). Throw all three as hard as you can.

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13. Screwball is so f'ed up!!! it looks like its cutting glove side right after the release the cuts back hand side. And ya just can't beat the knuckle

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14. For me the cahngeup is easier

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15. that 1 forkball was so nasty the umpire forgot to call it a strike when it was right down the middle

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16. forkball. almost no control, and the form and release point need to be perfect.

    but man, a well thrown forkball in the vicinity of the plate is almost unhittable. It's like a high-speed knuckler.

    also — nobody throws a screwball anymore. It's either going into the batter, or away from the batter, and in any case the ball is not moving the way they're expecting.

    If you are a batter tuning in on the release of the pitch, you expect a curve or a slider… and then it breaks the other way, opposite of the slider.

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17. I can agree with every pitch in number 8 except for a cutter. VERY difficult pitch to learn if you don’t know what you’re doing

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18. 0:35–0:43 is the best

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19. A changeup is not more difficult to throw than a curveball, slurve, or a cutter.

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20. Who edited this video? You have to put it on 0.75x playback speed to match up the video speed but the announcer voices are left untouched. You suck

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21. 3:09 where is the batter going??

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22. I'm a base ball player

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23. the one seam sinker was taught to me by a friend and we treated it like the ultimate teqnique

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24. I throw a screwball

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25. My favourite and probably the hardest one is the riser
    You have to throw it almost from the ground just to rise to the strikezone and u need to put alot of power just to go like 60-75 mph

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26. The hardest pitch for me is a curve ball my friend throw a perfect knuckleball and I caught it

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