Gripping a Baseball

Date:11/11/08
Time:11:19am
Place:My room

There are many ways to grip a baseball, and being a pitcher a couple of years back I know the best pitches to throw at a batter. Some of my favorites include, a sinker, slider, change up, fork ball, curver ball, and I also make up a pitch called the slinker. As of these pitches give off a different rotation on the ball when it comes out of your hand. By doing this, you have to hold the ball a certain way and release it out of your hand a certain way also. For example, a curve ball is held by putting you index and middle finger on the outside seems of the baseball. Holding your two fingers tightly together, makes sure you index finger toutches the seem first and the middle finger furthest away. After you have you fingers located in the right possition, you have to practice your winde up and release. When you get the techniques down, the ball will just flow perfectly out of your hand and into the catchers hand. Practice makes perfect, and with every pitch that you throw you will experience a different throw. You have to use these throws on certain batters, to make them strike out. Every batter has a weakness and you will find it out during a game. Many batters weakness is a curve ball. When they see the ball comming a a 45 degree angle they think that its going to be a ball, but all of a sudden the ball comes in for a strike. There are many ways to grip a baseball and after you get them down you will be a master pitcher!