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That's a popular way in America to describe the absolute best and almost unimaginable talents. "Nasty" curveball. "Filthy" changeup. "Sick" fastball. All of those pitches were absolutely disgusting. Bravo OP
@@egcgc7125 Trust me. Nasty for a Major League Pitcher is a compliment. Watch these pitches and pay close attention as to how silly they make hitters look.
Man that was Gorman Thomas my favorite Brewer. I always thought those early 80s Brewer dudes looked like a softball team. Nope dude obviously would not be a good softballer
roy seibel No, that would be Football⚽ (or may be even Rugby🏉) where pitch is the entire field. In Cricket, pitch is just the playing strip (although probably the mostly important part of the Cricket field).
Part of what makes baseball so interesting. I feel that a lot of people don't understand the strategy that goes into pitch selection and type. If people understood more about what makes baseball complex they would probably enjoy it like they do football but on the outside, baseball looks so simple when it's really not.
1:27, an ephus that looks almost cartoonish. As for a lot of those hooks, sliders, and curveballs, gotta admire a pitch that makes the batter look like he is swinging from the wrong zip code.
zack greinke is probably one of my favorite pitchers, because he's one of the few pitchers that used that pitch in the modern era, i believe he had a competition with another pitcher to see who could throw the slowest ball across the plate, i think his lowest ever was 51mph, he also would get bored during games, and tip batters off to his own pitches. he also hit a home run with his eyes closed to prove to his manager that hitting was really easy, and they should let him be a designated hitter. greinke was really a once in a generation talent, unfortunately many people seem to forget about him, i'm sure he doesn't mind that too much though.
When you see a MLB batter smile after a nasty pitch you know it deserves a spot on any list. Goes to show how much a batter truly respects these top level pitchers
I remember Barry Zito early in his A’s career had one hell of a curveball that would start almost behind the head of a lefty hitter and end up at the foot of the opposite batter’s box. There was also The Big Unit’s slider and Pedro’s changeup that made hitters look downright silly at times. 🤔
@@jacfalle27 just saying. Can you say-Domination! Lol. Yeah that rotation (then sub in Avery or Millwood as the 4th) was just awesome. Even in the series, which they seem to lose EVERY year lol, but it was more than not because no run support or on one/two freak bang-bang plays. But damn those guys were good.
@@jacfalle27 imagine if Oakland (and the players of today in general) actually wanted to win like the guys from seasons past. Oakland could have secured Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, ,and Barry Zito for a decade. They maybe would have been able to add to the championship trophy case 🤷 ah well what if , what if what if lol
3:06 how in the HELL did that ball change direction at the last second. It literally was going straight until the last moment then "NOPE" I'm going left.
The key is to get a ball that has been hit really hard foul. The kids bring it back. If u feel any imperfections in the ball , like a flat spot. The knuckle ball is ON. And if the threads are at all frayed, the curve ball is ON
@@allthingscroatia no man, I'm watching the ball it is dead center of the screen and then it LITERALLY takes a hard left tun. That is the sickest pitch I have ever seen.
Vegas Proud Boy Watch it in .25 speed. It drops a lot more than it moves to the left. Definitely doesn’t take a hard left turn. The catchers glove gives it that appearance tho
@@Ragnar_Helsson Still has nothing on Mariano Rivera's cut fastball. If you remember or heard of Mike Scott of the Houston Astros, he threw the sickest forkball ever. The drop on that ball was jaw dropping.
4:31 Good Luck hitting that. The ball is literally all over the place coming in. Even the catcher couldn’t reel it in. One of the best Knuckleball’s ever thrown.
Guys, HERE is Our Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
The downward slider used to just be called a sinker. I liked how the names they gave pitches told you either what it was supposed to do, or how they hold it. Now it's like every pitch is named a change up, a curve, a slider, a fastball, or a knuckle ball. There's a bunch of different types of change ups - the palm ball, circle change, fork ball, etc... I just liked it when they gave us those neat little details.
Yea bet you would think that Kershaw would have been the first pitcher to come to his minde wen he was maken this video. If i made a video like this Kersh would have been tbe first pitcher featerd.
The chuckle from the announcers says it all. Priceless. Love it. Seeing Chapman in person throwing 105 for The Reds was Priceless and seeing him throw every pitch above 100 for an entire save outing multiple times was priceless. Those were Great years with Dusty on the bench HC, Votto MVP slugging and The Cuban Missile Crisis closing out the games. Fun fun string of 5years there.
The way you grip the ball, the way your arm whips forward, and the way you release the ball can all cause the ball to spin in very particular ways. Pitchers figure out how to do two to four kinds of pitches and the pros get really, *really* good at it. That pitch is somewhere in between a curve and a slider, though more on the slider side than the curve side.
100% agree. I watched that entire game live on tv. Never seen such nastiness by any pitcher, ever. He was in a league of his own that day. He made the Astros' killer B's look like little leaguers. Best pitching performance I have ever seen, by far.
@@ThatMeansHesMad The metrics agree with you. According to Bill James' 'gamescore' stat, it has the highest score of any game ever pitched. Twenty strikeouts while allowing only 1 hit and 0 walks against a very good Astros lineup for a game score of 105. I think only Scherzer's 104 in his 2015 no-hitter against the Mets is close.
Great vid! You got a lot a nasty pitches on there but if next time you just put the names of the pitcher while the video is playing instead of having individual titles, the video would flow better. Please don't be discouraged by this tip because I know it takes a long time for you to get all the clips together for all the videos. All in all, Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what you do next!
@@johncollins7423 Arch is completely legal in MLB. The reason most MLBers avoid using Lalob is simply- you miss and you'll never see that ball again. LaRoche was a master at mixing it up.
Great video. Love how you give the knuckleball the credit it deserves... one critique though, I think those two pitch's from Wakefield were also knuckleballs. He had one of the nastiest in the game. Love your videos!
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Yes. Wakefield threw basically 3 pitches. 95% were knuckleballs (maybe 99%) he also threw a slow fastball, and a change-up, to keep guys honest. I'm sure someone can find a clip in some game of him throwing breaking balls, but almost everything he threw was a kunckler. And he was one of the best ever at it.
Maddux’s slider is filthy not just because of the break, but because he threw that right-breaking two seam fastball and painted the outside corner with it regularly. If you watch the whole at bat with Servais, I’m willing to bet he’d already thrown that two seamer outside for a called strike. With two strikes, you have to protect the outside corner or you’re going to get rung up looking. But instead of the two seamer breaking back over the plate, he hits you with a slider that you need an oar to hit.
0:29 -- My favorite, and really respect the professionalism of the pitcher (Yoervis Medina), when he could've let his ego show itself. All class leaving the mound.
He was a knuckleballer. Idk if I’d classify him as a “technical pitcher”. He threw one pitch 95% of the time and had no clue where it was going. Unless you’re talking about earlier in his career? In which case, no his two saner wasn’t 70 mph and he wasn’t a technical pitcher hen either
Colin McMasters id like to agree with the guy who corrected you, and also add that there are tons of “technical pitchers” that can also throw heat. They are alive and well
RIP Tim Wakefield. I met a friend of his outside a funeral and he ended up meeting me family and giving us tickets to Fenway where I got to meet a few of the players and wear his ring. He was an unbelievable kind man, and so were those he spent time around. I am sure he is resting easy.
They weren't bad...I used to throw a knuckleball as one of my off speed pitches from Little League all the way through high school...luckily my catcher was my little brother (a year behind me). Mine would dance even more than Charlie Hough's and Tim Wakefield's knucklers....(I grew up in the 80s & 90s)
@@aaronsanborn4291 Me too, grad'd high school in '85. I miss playing ball. On few occasions, getting our butts' kicked, I'd get to pitch so as to save our pitchers arms. I had so much fun. I could throw right down the middle every time pretty much from years of accurate throws back to the pitcher. I didn't have any junk though.
How do you forgot the nastiest pitch of all time? Mariano's cutter.....not only did it dominate lefties and righties but it broke like a thousand bats in the process. 😳
When Kerry Wood(former Chicago Cub)struck out 20,some of his pitches seemed to dance from one side to the other,or drop from top to bottom(I was hoping to see a couple of those)
The Orioles had a closer years ago named Gregg Olson who had the filthiest curveball ever. It was his out pitch. Hitters knew it was coming and they still couldn't hit it.
Where is the Barry Zito curve that pitch broke feet and the will of most batters. You need some 12-6 curves from the “ old days “. Koufax Pedro these two their gall was always moving.
I can't believe nobody in the comments section has recognized at 1:35 is where the 1993 Baseball Film, Rookie of the Year got it's inspiration with Henry Rowengardner throwing the Floater pitch to the Mets dangerous hitter to end the game and the movie. I almost thought I was watching the movie when I saw this on here.
1)That's an eephus pitch and has been a part of baseball lore and dates back much, much further than the clip in this video. 2) The pitch in the movie is delivered underhanded, more like in soft pitch softball so no, your theory is completely wrong.
What's insane is that once you master the knuckleball, like Wakefield and Wright did, you can telegraph that pitch all day and it really won't matter. As long as you have the arm strength to keep it up for more than four or five innings, you are golden.
I was 15 years old playing Babe Ruth baseball and was in the playoffs. I hadn't struck out all year, and the whole league knew it. An epheous pitch ended my streak. We still won, but damn was i pissed.
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why would you call it disgusting wtf?
That's a popular way in America to describe the absolute best and almost unimaginable talents. "Nasty" curveball. "Filthy" changeup. "Sick" fastball. All of those pitches were absolutely disgusting. Bravo OP
Welp that sounds bad to me xD
Tom Gordon of KC and Boston had a filthy 12-6 curveball.
Highlight Hitters fuck you I bet you can’t throw shit
I could hit a number of these pitches.
Zero’s a number.
0 is actually not a number. It's the value of nothing. In math it's discriminated because of it's value against "normal" numbers.
@@surrehue333 Why so serious? It's just a joke.
@@davenalunat1433 I know. I was joking too, but I guess my joking didn't show too well. Sry about that
Yeah numbers are a value, zero is the lack of a value
Idiot pitch
You know how nasty you gotta be to break ankles as a PITCHER?
I Am Geezus in major leagues, pretty dang nasty... however it doesn't take much to have a guy fall over swinging in little league lol...
I Am Geezus as nasty as #31
Why americans say nasty... is nasty for batter?? Shuldnt be great or awesome pitch??
@@egcgc7125 Trust me. Nasty for a Major League Pitcher is a compliment. Watch these pitches and pay close attention as to how silly they make hitters look.
@@egcgc7125 it's called slang
1:47 He's probably thinking "People will forget about this eventually"
2021: Watching it on my iPhone
Man that was Gorman Thomas my favorite Brewer. I always thought those early 80s Brewer dudes looked like a softball team. Nope dude obviously would not be a good softballer
2024
2024 watching it now
I came here expecting to see some poorly maintained grass fields.
That's cricket
Why?
i love this comment
roy seibel No, that would be Football⚽ (or may be even Rugby🏉) where pitch is the entire field. In Cricket, pitch is just the playing strip (although probably the mostly important part of the Cricket field).
well then the title would have been disgusting fields, not pitches.
Pitching really is an art form
@Lefter Mc Omerta
Agreed
Take a look at cricket players, search up Brett lee, pat Cummins or Mitchell starc, I reckon you’ll find it really interesting
@King Arthur lmaoo was looking for this comment--
Part of what makes baseball so interesting. I feel that a lot of people don't understand the strategy that goes into pitch selection and type. If people understood more about what makes baseball complex they would probably enjoy it like they do football but on the outside, baseball looks so simple when it's really not.
1:27, an ephus that looks almost cartoonish. As for a lot of those hooks, sliders, and curveballs, gotta admire a pitch that makes the batter look like he is swinging from the wrong zip code.
zack greinke is probably one of my favorite pitchers, because he's one of the few pitchers that used that pitch in the modern era, i believe he had a competition with another pitcher to see who could throw the slowest ball across the plate, i think his lowest ever was 51mph, he also would get bored during games, and tip batters off to his own pitches.
he also hit a home run with his eyes closed to prove to his manager that hitting was really easy, and they should let him be a designated hitter.
greinke was really a once in a generation talent, unfortunately many people seem to forget about him, i'm sure he doesn't mind that too much though.
😂😂
That full 360° twirl though...
Very elegant 💃
Very modern ballet
meets where'd I put
my keys??
That ump at 0:59 threw up the cleanest strike out call I’ve ever seen lol.
Not counting Leslie Nielsen that is...
Ikr
😂😂😂
Lmfaoooo
Man was about to fly away like Superman 😂
When you see a MLB batter smile after a nasty pitch you know it deserves a spot on any list. Goes to show how much a batter truly respects these top level pitchers
Even better when they look like they want to punch the pitcher, but there's a tinge of respect in their eyes.
0:32 the man straight up started walking off the mound immediately after releasing the ball knowing what was gonna happen.
I'm pretty sure he just got taken off the mound because of momentum and then just kept walking but sure
The idiot pitch had me dead 💀😭
I used that stinker a couple of times during peewee. They made me quit after smoking their top batters.
@@Nighthawke70 sure man
That was the most perfect eephus pitch I ever saw lol
If you died then how did you type this comment ? You are some real shit there
YouDontHave IT what was he thinking?
This dude throws knuckles as hard as I throw fastballs 😭😭
Kerry Wood has a slurve not a slider
Markus Patients 75 is an average high school pitched
Markus Patients how would you know?
Markus Patients that literally has no correlation with what I said
@Markus Patients you know you messed up when you just completely change the subject and refused to comply
I remember Barry Zito early in his A’s career had one hell of a curveball that would start almost behind the head of a lefty hitter and end up at the foot of the opposite batter’s box. There was also The Big Unit’s slider and Pedro’s changeup that made hitters look downright silly at times. 🤔
randy had a nickname for that slider: “mr. snappy”
Tom Glavine threw that left handed curve ball better
@@jonnyblayze5149 Definitely loved the Big Three of the 90s Braves. Smoltz’s slider and Maddux’s changeup were downright filthy as well.
@@jacfalle27 just saying. Can you say-Domination! Lol. Yeah that rotation (then sub in Avery or Millwood as the 4th) was just awesome. Even in the series, which they seem to lose EVERY year lol, but it was more than not because no run support or on one/two freak bang-bang plays. But damn those guys were good.
@@jacfalle27 imagine if Oakland (and the players of today in general) actually wanted to win like the guys from seasons past. Oakland could have secured Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, ,and Barry Zito for a decade. They maybe would have been able to add to the championship trophy case 🤷 ah well what if , what if what if lol
3:06 how in the HELL did that ball change direction at the last second. It literally was going straight until the last moment then "NOPE" I'm going left.
The key is to get a ball that has been hit really hard foul. The kids bring it back. If u feel any imperfections in the ball , like a flat spot. The knuckle ball is ON. And if the threads are at all frayed, the curve ball is ON
The cachers glove movement makes it seem like it moves more. Still nasty pitch tho
@@allthingscroatia no man, I'm watching the ball it is dead center of the screen and then it LITERALLY takes a hard left tun. That is the sickest pitch I have ever seen.
Vegas Proud Boy Watch it in .25 speed. It drops a lot more than it moves to the left. Definitely doesn’t take a hard left turn. The catchers glove gives it that appearance tho
@@Ragnar_Helsson Still has nothing on Mariano Rivera's cut fastball. If you remember or heard of Mike Scott of the Houston Astros, he threw the sickest forkball ever. The drop on that ball was jaw dropping.
Some of these swings are more awkward then running into an ex girlfriend
sebastian oña
😂😂😂
Than* You're making a comparison
abishai Ghosh oh look at me spell check over here
On the second one, I was really thinking a sniper got him
4:31 Good Luck hitting that. The ball is literally all over the place coming in. Even the catcher couldn’t reel it in. One of the best Knuckleball’s ever thrown.
That’s disgusting oh my god
Its so nasty even the catcher gets duped
It literally WIGGLES
Guys, HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
It was pretty damn amazing. I need to see more of these!
Randy Johnson's fastball was so nasty it could kill a bird
Baseball Fanatic it did !!
Not that nasty, Dave Winfield had done it, and he wasn't a pitcher!
Fastball, fastball, slider every time
not to mention explosive.
Bill Arlington woooooosh
A nasty pitch is a piece of beautiful artwork.
The downward slider used to just be called a sinker. I liked how the names they gave pitches told you either what it was supposed to do, or how they hold it. Now it's like every pitch is named a change up, a curve, a slider, a fastball, or a knuckle ball.
There's a bunch of different types of change ups - the palm ball, circle change, fork ball, etc...
I just liked it when they gave us those neat little details.
The fork ball is NOT a changeup🤨
Can you guys give this guy a break? You really think he is gonna find every single nasty pitch? He's doing the best he can.
Yea bet you would think that Kershaw would have been the first pitcher to come to his minde wen he was maken this video. If i made a video like this Kersh would have been tbe first pitcher featerd.
Getcha over protective A** outta here
It's ya Boy lol the first few pitches were stolen from a video and he just changed the order lol
John Wray Kershaw is garbage. He hasn't thrown a nasty pitch in his life
frank dizzle put you're hand up is it up good, now slap yourself for saying stupid ass shit.
Why do these pitches sound like wrestling move names😂😂😂
Amber Sasser the rock uses the swivel swisher!! Then john cena uses the left hook!!
Yeah like stone cold stunner, people's elbow, the pedigree, jack knife
Or sexual moves
RIGHT HOOK
Amber Sasser i
This aint about the pitchers and I may be biased as a royals fan, but watching Josh Donaldson strikeout is one of the funnest things to see
Nah I disagree it's bias on your part
4:17 Russell Martin’s swing 🤣🤣
Dude didn't know what to expect 😂😂
the funniest strikeout ive ever seen!
Talk about being fooled lol
ViNNiE KLuTcH he was like “.......oh”
LOL!
The chuckle from the announcers says it all. Priceless. Love it.
Seeing Chapman in person throwing 105 for The Reds was Priceless and seeing him throw every pitch above 100 for an entire save outing multiple times was priceless.
Those were Great years with Dusty on the bench HC, Votto MVP slugging and
The Cuban Missile Crisis
closing out the games.
Fun fun string of 5years there.
And won nothing. 😭Sucks for you to be a Cincy fan.
Steve Carlton had the BEST slider I've ever seen and have been watching for almost 60 years. He won 27 games in a year the Phillies won a total of 52.
You can see (pause at 1:21) that Darvish's curveball is a ball, but his catcher does a great job pulling the ball back into the strike zone.
camera angle?
Whatever you say it doesn't matter because umpire is always right
@@oncoare7501 are you dumb
2:42 how is that even possible?
lilboi 2406 by holding the seams a certain way...
Or spitting or using pine tar which is cheating
@@tylermunene1007 CGI
The way you grip the ball, the way your arm whips forward, and the way you release the ball can all cause the ball to spin in very particular ways. Pitchers figure out how to do two to four kinds of pitches and the pros get really, *really* good at it.
That pitch is somewhere in between a curve and a slider, though more on the slider side than the curve side.
Editing
Maybe the ball was scuffed.
The catcher must have said shit to himself everytime that knuckle ball was pitched.
that boston accent at the end lol
"not quite as haad as he normally throws it"
Brandon Ali Dickey has a better knuckle ball
That's Jerry Remy (former Red Sox player), now Sox broadcaster.
Pretty sure that's Jeremy Renner
It's spelled "hahd" - H-A-H-D.
It's naaught haaud to sound like peeta Griffin.
1:36
"This is baseball! Not tennis. Give me something I can hit!"
The fact he swung at that thing is the deceptive nature of the pitch
Will that be a strike if the batter didn't swing?
@@richella2029 probably not
1:26 I love this clip, it looks so old school, like it's out a film the way the hitter reacted.
Kerry Wood should be on here. His slider in the 20k game is still the nastiest pitch I've ever seen
It’s actually more of a slurve
100% agree. I watched that entire game live on tv. Never seen such nastiness by any pitcher, ever. He was in a league of his own that day.
He made the Astros' killer B's look like little leaguers.
Best pitching performance I have ever seen, by far.
Crotchton how about in real life.
It is real life....wood had a 20k game in '98
@@ThatMeansHesMad
The metrics agree with you. According to Bill James' 'gamescore' stat, it has the highest score of any game ever pitched. Twenty strikeouts while allowing only 1 hit and 0 walks against a very good Astros lineup for a game score of 105. I think only Scherzer's 104 in his 2015 no-hitter against the Mets is close.
i feel like i need a shower after this
Jesse DIIG No shit! Cringe worthy.
Not native speaker here, but why is this disgusting?
critex123 it’s just something we say
non-american here.. I just wanna know why it is called disgusting pitch.. Is it because the pitcher did him(batter) dirty or something?
Ben T but why?
0:51 Alexei Ramirez was all like, "shit, you got me there". That's a look of respect.
2:00 had to be the exact moment used for "rookie of the year". Huge floating pitch with a burley bearded mean looking guy who fans it
Great vid! You got a lot a nasty pitches on there but if next time you just put the names of the pitcher while the video is playing instead of having individual titles, the video would flow better. Please don't be discouraged by this tip because I know it takes a long time for you to get all the clips together for all the videos. All in all, Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what you do next!
Nice to see comments like yours, keep up your positivity 👍
Am I the only one who finds it so satisfying to watch pitches curve like this
Those knuckle balls. To perfect those is a art. You mess those up most batters will send em sailing
Kyle Snyder the knuckle ball is impossible to hit the top spin on the bat after hitting it will always make u pop up
Catchers like wheres it gonna end up
1:34
This is how the professionals throw a curveball
Underrated
This video with the funny adjectives for each pitch has interested me into baseball
Can't believe the "idiot pitch" was even a legal pitch in MLB that had more arch than a men's underarm softball pitch!
Look at Dave LaRoche. He used the eephus pitch, actually nicknamed "LaLob", Lol😅
@@johncollins7423 Arch is completely legal in MLB. The reason most MLBers avoid using Lalob is simply- you miss and you'll never see that ball again. LaRoche was a master at mixing it up.
@@michaelneckermann5798 Stormin Gorman did finally get a hit against the LaLob eventually though :)
What a tittle
What a commment
Lool
totally grossed..
What a beautiful duwang
It is titillating
That knuckle ball at 4:35 was GROSS 🤢🤮... batter didn't make contact and the catcher didn't even get his mitt within a foot of that disgusting pitch 😳
Great video. Love how you give the knuckleball the credit it deserves... one critique though, I think those two pitch's from Wakefield were also knuckleballs. He had one of the nastiest in the game. Love your videos!
HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
@@Praise___YaH shut up
Those were definitely knuckleballs
Yes. Wakefield threw basically 3 pitches. 95% were knuckleballs (maybe 99%) he also threw a slow fastball, and a change-up, to keep guys honest. I'm sure someone can find a clip in some game of him throwing breaking balls, but almost everything he threw was a kunckler. And he was one of the best ever at it.
Maddux’s slider is filthy not just because of the break, but because he threw that right-breaking two seam fastball and painted the outside corner with it regularly. If you watch the whole at bat with Servais, I’m willing to bet he’d already thrown that two seamer outside for a called strike. With two strikes, you have to protect the outside corner or you’re going to get rung up looking. But instead of the two seamer breaking back over the plate, he hits you with a slider that you need an oar to hit.
*2-seam fastball
Greg had a way of getting guys to swing at pitches that were very difficult to get the bat on. For years.
Randy Johnson’s slider was legendary. The speed and movement combination was pure insanity.
I remember growing up and seeing guys throw 80mph sliders. Now its a whole new game.
@1:41 in the background, "what the fuck was that"
Rob _ lmao
AwesomeGamer999 not see, hear
lol nice catch!
Rob _ 😂😂i hear him
😂😂😂
Those were the craziest knuckleballs I’ve ever seen.
0:29 -- My favorite, and really respect the professionalism of the pitcher (Yoervis Medina), when he could've let his ego show itself. All class leaving the mound.
Tim Wakefield is a legend. His two seam was like 70 mph tops. One of the last great technical pitchers.
He was a knuckleballer. Idk if I’d classify him as a “technical pitcher”. He threw one pitch 95% of the time and had no clue where it was going.
Unless you’re talking about earlier in his career? In which case, no his two saner wasn’t 70 mph and he wasn’t a technical pitcher hen either
Colin McMasters id like to agree with the guy who corrected you, and also add that there are tons of “technical pitchers” that can also throw heat. They are alive and well
Greg Maddux would be that guy.
@@ThatMeansHesMad can't throw heat, and never did.
Wright just walks off the mount like it's another day at the office. Got to love it.
love how each pitch name makes baseball more exciting
😂😂😂
Even the catcher was a bit fooled by chapman's nasty slider. Damn lol
It’s Bc he threw a different pitch than what he was supposed to throw
RIP Tim Wakefield. I met a friend of his outside a funeral and he ended up meeting me family and giving us tickets to Fenway where I got to meet a few of the players and wear his ring. He was an unbelievable kind man, and so were those he spent time around. I am sure he is resting easy.
Wow one of the boys from the Braves pitching staff from the 90’s that loved to live on the outside of the plate in Greg Maddux.
IN the slow mo of Darvish's curveball, LaRoche is looking at Darvish until right when the ball hits the glove
Those last few knuckleballs were insane! I kept rewinding and watching them over and over. I was a catcher for 10 years.
They weren't bad...I used to throw a knuckleball as one of my off speed pitches from Little League all the way through high school...luckily my catcher was my little brother (a year behind me). Mine would dance even more than Charlie Hough's and Tim Wakefield's knucklers....(I grew up in the 80s & 90s)
@@aaronsanborn4291 Me too, grad'd high school in '85. I miss playing ball. On few occasions, getting our butts' kicked, I'd get to pitch so as to save our pitchers arms. I had so much fun. I could throw right down the middle every time pretty much from years of accurate throws back to the pitcher. I didn't have any junk though.
one of the most challenging things to perfect in all of sports. very impressive.
How do you forgot the nastiest pitch of all time? Mariano's cutter.....not only did it dominate lefties and righties but it broke like a thousand bats in the process. 😳
Facts
00:50 Even the batter has a grin on his face after that curveball, he's just like "Yeah that was an awesome pitch, you got me fair and square!"
0:27 is this the baseball equivalent of breaking someones ankles
This video is incomplete without some of Kerry Wood’s epic pitches. That guy threw Wiffle balls before he got hurt.
I used to pitch and still have no idea how some of these are done with so much ease. Beautiful.
the Knuckleball is such a nasty pitch. I could watch em all day
You missed the Fernando Valenzuela screwball
yep
How could you not include Rivera’s Cutter? That pitch was a nightmare.
Knuckleballer Charlie Hough never got the credit he deserved.
Agreed!!!!
Kershaw's breaking ball deserves to be on here.
12-6 curveball
@@kpchessman Either one is nasty, have you seen that slider breaking from the outside of the plate to a rightys ankles.
@@anthonyperez3414 Yes I have. I knew he was Cy Young material when he came up as a rookie.
Same with Jose Berrios, either him or Julio Urias for best curveball in MLB
That thing would freeze a snowman
Wakefield curveballs? WTF…
The Koufax curveball is the filthiest pitch in baseball history.
Really fun! I still think Sandy Koufax's curve was the most impressive and consistent I've ever seen
exactly what you want from a sports highlight YT vid. No music, no fluff, the guys' names are clear, the highlights are nasty. hell yea
No Kershaw curveballs or Scherzer sliders? WTF
Holy SHIT that slow hook was amazing!
How did Clayton Kershaw’s curveball NOT make this video? His curve is quite possibly the nastiest curve ever.
I know right??
Nolan Ryan has entered the chat.
You need some Kerry Wood and Josh Beckett from their prime!!!!
Oh, and Mariano and his cutter!
All this has shown me is how little I understand about baseball. They all look more or less the same to me
That ephus pitch has got to be one of the most embarrassing at bats in mlb history
When Kerry Wood(former Chicago Cub)struck out 20,some of his pitches seemed to dance from one side to the other,or drop from top to bottom(I was hoping to see a couple of those)
The Orioles had a closer years ago named Gregg Olson who had the filthiest curveball ever. It was his out pitch. Hitters knew it was coming and they still couldn't hit it.
At 1:36 he hit em with that bugs bunny pitch. "Put it right dere, that's thee Ol peppa"😂😂😂
Made the batter do the hokey pokey!😭😭😂😂😂
Where is the Barry Zito curve that pitch broke feet and the will of most batters. You need some 12-6 curves from the “ old days “. Koufax Pedro these two their gall was always moving.
Knuckle balls are just plain rude lmao
King Felix's change-up should have made the list from his perfect game. That thing was absolutely unhittable!
I can't believe nobody in the comments section has recognized at 1:35 is where the 1993 Baseball Film, Rookie of the Year got it's inspiration with Henry Rowengardner throwing the Floater pitch to the Mets dangerous hitter to end the game and the movie. I almost thought I was watching the movie when I saw this on here.
Andrew Gordon yeah I remeber that movie
Andrew Gordon I was thinking the same thing
Regardless of the temptation, it was silly that the Brewer swung at what would have been a certain ball.
Bort McBort yeah it’s just temptation
1)That's an eephus pitch and has been a part of baseball lore and dates back much, much further than the clip in this video. 2) The pitch in the movie is delivered underhanded, more like in soft pitch softball so no, your theory is completely wrong.
the swivel slider was nasty
That was a pretty stellar compilation. Im happy to subscribe. 👍
I've never been so disgusted my whole life
I feel sick.
Hahaha 😂
#imFlaggingToRUclips I mean...
after I get home from the hospital, of course 🤢
Greg Maddux is just nast altogether! That circle change...
What's insane is that once you master the knuckleball, like Wakefield and Wright did, you can telegraph that pitch all day and it really won't matter. As long as you have the arm strength to keep it up for more than four or five innings, you are golden.
So long as you have a catcher that can stay in front of it. Catching for a knuckler is as much an art as the knuckleball itself.
It's a child play for cricket bowlers
Im disgusted
Mo's cutter???
Man, how the knuckleball just dips at the end is amazing!
How did Barry Zito and r.a. Dickey not make the list!
His pitches help explain direction changes by being so big.
Bradford and his submarine pitch wasn't in it either.
0:05 even the catcher was surprised at the movement 😭
I play Cather and I know the feeling
The movement surprised him🗿
I was 15 years old playing Babe Ruth baseball and was in the playoffs. I hadn't struck out all year, and the whole league knew it. An epheous pitch ended my streak. We still won, but damn was i pissed.
As my Dad would say, good pitching will stop great hitting any day!
This makes no sense because I don’t know how baseball works
Me too, i thought it is the worst playing compilation
Or the best?
@@mungding6271 i feel you 😂
This video is a compilation of pitchers (guys that throw the ball) throwing insanely good pitches.
That “Idiot Pitch” really does make you look like one when you miss 😂