Curveball

The Curveball (English: ball, which is thrown by the pitcher to the arcuate batsman ) denotes a union of the pitcher in baseball sports game. Here, the launcher tries the ball to throw by a certain movement of the hand and fingers so that he gets into a rotation. This spin causes the ball flies in an arc and to the batsman ( batter ) may make hitting the ball.

Forms of the Curve Balls

Either

• The ball is thrown in the direction of the strike zone and this then breaks from the straight trajectory away or
• The ball is thrown outside of the straight line for the strike zone and then flies, driven by the spin in the regular area.

In both versions, the batsman is more difficult to hitting the ball. Pitcher and Catcher agree before throwing by hidden hands, which ball is to be thrown. It is also important that hitter is at bat, because there are usually such balls thrown, with those of the respective opponents experience, has problems.

12-6 Curveball

A particularly effective variant of the Curve Balls is the 12-6 curveball. He is thrown with a topspin, whose axis of rotation transverse to the thrower stands (ie, parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the direction of flight), so that the rotation takes place exactly vertical. This provides for the batsman out as if the baseball break out in a straight line down, which runs in an imaginary clock of "12 clock after 6 clock ". A 12-6 curveball is hard to beat, because there is no horizontal movement, and is rarely met even in contact with the ball to the sweet spot of a baseball bat.

Fastballs: Cutter | Four -seam | Two -seam | Shuuto | Sinker | Split - finger

Curveball: Curveball ( 12-6 ) | Knuckle curve | Screwball | Slider | Slurve

Changeups: Circle changeup | forkball | Palm Ball | Vulcan changeup

Other: Eephus pitch | Gyroball | Knuckleball | Spitball

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