Can you name the pitches based on a description and famous thrower of the pitch? by hscer

Can you name the pitches based on a description and famous thrower of the pitch?

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Description	Pitch	Pitcher
Banned in 1920		Burleigh Grimes
Very slow, with little to no spin		Tim Wakefield
Fast, sharp breaking ball		Randy Johnson
If you mixed the Blyleven/Wakefield pitch		Mike Mussina
Abnormally slow, rarely used pitch		Rip Sewell
Breaks bats when thrown in toward hitters		Mariano Rivera
Invention often credited to Candy Cummings		Bert Blyleven
Originally known as the 'fadeaway'		Christy Mathewson
Throws off a hitter's timing		Pedro Martinez
A good one generally exceeds 90 mph		Nolan Ryan
Pitch used to induce ground balls		Chien-Ming Wang
It's often said the 'bottom falls out' of this pitch		Curt Schilling

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Baseball Pitches Quiz

by hscer

Created Nov 5, 2009 in Sports
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	evansigg:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:45 GMT	9 points
	only complaint is wang as the poster for the sinker Brandon Webb, Derek Lowe, or Roy Halladay are better repd imo GOOD QUIZ!!

	amk16:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:52 GMT	5 points
	"split finger" fastball should be accepted without the "ed"

	lezardvaleth:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:52 GMT	-3 points
	Mussina's knuckle curve was identical to the standard curveball, just with different grip. Not a mixture of knuckleball and curveball at all.

	amk16:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:53 GMT	4 points
	forkball? palmball?

	hscer:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:56 GMT	2 points
	@amk16 will do about splitter, but it's not an exhaustive list so that's why some are missing. @lezardvaleth yeah, it's gripped like a knuckleball but thrown like a curveball, hence why I called it a mix

	Patrick Mullen:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT	14 points
	I think "little to no spin" is more accurate than "irregular spin" when describing a Knuckleball. Palmball - Jim Palmer Maybe add a 4-seam fastball and a 2-seam fastball?

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	uva_rob:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 05:52 GMT	5 points
	I still remember A-Rod hitting one of El Duque's Eephus pitches about 500 feet a few years back. He waited on it and hit the living heck out of the ball, and even El Duque laughed as it flew out.

	Matt91486:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 05:58 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, I mean, you might as well add some more pitches in. My personal favorite, the gyroball.

	thegrimreaper:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 06:35 GMT	6 points
	since you included the knuckle-curve...you should also include the slurve, which is a mix of the slider and the curveball.

	detroitlou:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 09:22 GMT	13 points
	Any quiz that acknowledges the eephus is five stars in my book.

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	timeEd32:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 13:29 GMT	16 points
	"You should accept offspeed for changeup." No you shouldn't. Good quiz.

	joewhitey:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 13:41 GMT	4 points
	@Fuenlabrada, a sinker uses two seams but does not mean the same thing. A 4 seam fastball is faster and is straight (Nolan Ryan). A 2 seamer, unlike a sinker, moves horizontally (used by guys like David Wells). Additionally, there are 2 types of change ups, the straight change (used by Hoffman) and the Circle change which breaks down and away from RH hitters if thrown by a rightie (used by Pedro).

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	reicherm:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 17:56 GMT	1 point
	good quiz. add forkball

	GeorgiaPeach:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	0 points
	If you added forkball I would post Bruce Sutter as the pitcher. For slurve, Kerry Wood. For palmball, Roy Halladay. And maybe change the sinker pitcher. Overall, fantastic concept 5/5.

	GeorgiaPeach:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	4 points
	Lezardvaleth: I disagree. I have found that it has a sharper break than the regular curve, but that's just my opinion.

	Reder:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	1 point
	I'd like to see both two seam and four seam fastballs. Also, the elusive fosh and Japanese shuuto.

	West:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 22:01 GMT	4 points
	a curveball is thrown with your middle finger, Mussina's knuckle curve isn't a combo of a knuckleball and a curveball, it's just something you can do with your index finger to get a better feel for it. Cliff Lee was putting his index finger on top of his middle finger as pointed out this postseason. Also Rivera's cutter is simply the greatest pitch in the history of baseball, I don't like the Yankees but seeing him enter the game in game 6 gave me goosebumps.

	CougarTim:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz. THANK YOU for giving alt. spellings of eephus, that saved me!

	jtrichey:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 04:05 GMT	3 points
	A forkball is a split finger, no? And a palmball is a changeup, no? And submarine is not a pitch. It is an arm angle. Sidearmers throw fastballs, curveballs, sliders, etc.

	CorneliusTree:	May 12th, 2010 at 05:41 GMT	-1 points
	Some good suggestions for new pitches, I'd like to add Livan Hernandez's slow hook. West, Rivera's cutter is great but it can't be the greatest pitch in baseball unless you can keep getting people out with it three times through the order. Closers just have it easier. I'd say it might be Koufax's fastball or curveball. Late in his career he was tipping every pitch and people still couldn't hit him (he retired after posting a 1.74 ERA in his last season). Even Willie Mays said so. For the curveball, an off-speed pitch, that's especially impressive. Although part of me still thinks the greatest pitch ever has to be a fastball. But for real, Rivera's cutter is amazing, and a truly great pitch, but I just don't think he has the same success when guys get three looks a game.

	CorneliusTree:	May 12th, 2010 at 05:44 GMT	1 point
	I guess you can count the slow hook as an eephus.

	killerbill:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 02:23 GMT	2 points
	how about daisuke matsuzaka's (that might be spelled wrong) gyroball

	SpeedySloth:	Dec 24th, 2010 at 04:29 GMT	1 point
	I remember some good times with my friends in MLB Baseball 2005 striking out everyone with the Eephus.

	jplosman55:	Dec 24th, 2010 at 16:39 GMT	1 point
	cool quiz.

	mraithel13:	Dec 24th, 2010 at 17:41 GMT	0 points
	Mike Boddicker's foshball. Isn't a forkball the splitter thrown slower? Palmball is just another changeup.

	Wales:	Dec 24th, 2010 at 18:07 GMT	2 points
	no gryoball? Poor Diasuke :)

	paddy26:	Dec 24th, 2010 at 18:30 GMT	1 point
	I would make sure the curveball clue is before the knuckle curve clue since you refer to Blyleven in the knuckle curve clue.

	mlbnflwhiz:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 17:39 GMT	1 point
	mussinas "knuckle curve" is not really that. its not even gripped like a knuckleball, the only difference between it and a typical curve is that the index finger is raised off the ball and the finger tip rests on the ball. a curve is really a 2 finger pitch, and different pitchers find different ways to keep the index finger out of the way. many put the index finger very lightly on the seam, others do what mussina does. proof of this is the "pointer curve" which is essentially a beginner curveball, where the index finger is off the ball. it works just fine, the hitter can pick it up better though. mussina just used the "knuckle" way of hiding the finger

	mlbnflwhiz:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 17:41 GMT	2 points
	@corneliustree: if rivera hadnt been hurt and stayed a starter, he would have thrown his other pitches in combination and still been really succesful

	Viccolonello:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 23:16 GMT	2 points
	With Wang's sinker, Strasburg and Zimmermann's fastballs and Livan's junk (if they keep him [maybe in the bullpen]), the Nationals will be in the playoffs in 2012. Especially if they get Mike Mussina to teach Lannan (and the rest of the staff) his knuckle curve and his slurve. Go Nats!

	BrainBuster:	Sep 24th, 2011 at 05:00 GMT	1 point
	casey fossum threw the eephus