Eephus pitch

The Eephus pitch is a throwing technique a pitcher in baseball. It is a deliberately high and slowly thrown ball, which is to confuse the opponent batsman so that he either completely wrong or not hitting the ball.

History

In the 1940s, pitcher Rip Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates was known as a pitcher with a good fastball, threw the changeup as a deliberately slow arc lamp. He could throw it so surprising that this was not hit " lob " of many batsmen - to the amusement of the fans in attendance and the humiliation of dupes batsmen. Sewell called his Gag pitch the " Eephus ", meaning " nonsense " or "nothing" means in baseball long. Later Eephus users were inter alia Phil Niekro, Satchel Paige and Bill " Spaceman " Lee, who used to pitch even in the 7th game of the World Series 1975: result but was a home run by Tony Pérez, who thus initiated the victory of his Cincinnati Reds against the Boston Red Sox.

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