Posted on 10/14/2010 3:40:23 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
Breaking curveball too good to be true
Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball “break” or a fastball “rise.”
(Excerpt) Read more at rdmag.com ...
Not true, the forward velocity keeps the trajectory straight, as it nears the plate it "breaks" because of less velocity, and a build up of air on one side of the ball. That is like calling my curve ball at bowling a long curved trajectory...it breaks at about the 3/4 mark of the lane.
Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball “break” or a fastball “rise.”
Then I am sure this researcher will be the next Babe Ruth.
Nothin to it.
I new a guy with a tremendous “riseball” wiffle pitch, I don’t think I ever hit it.
Freegards
The real question is, "Does a knuckleball (no rotation) 'break'?"
yitbos
Speaking of knuckleballs, check out that grip that kid has!! Awesome.
Freegards
[“so I stepped out of the box, the next thing I see is the ball in the catcher’s mitt. Called strike three.”
You and a bunch of us too. LOL]
I was standing at bat for my younger pitcher brother was in highschool. Watched a screwball right into my jaw! Ouch. Those things curve too.
2 girls?
“Is Ground Effect the reason a Knuckleball ?floats??”
I was a big “junk” ball pitcher and ended up ruining my arm. That said, the knuckle ball is perception because its 20 mphs slower and has no spin. I could make a fastball rise by rolling the ball off my fingers in a back spin. And yes my curve was aimed at the batters head with a down left curve that would end up a strike.
Not sure. One throws like a girl. The other doesn't.
All my golf balls go straight.
Straight into the water, straight into the woods, straight out of bounds...
The article apparently isn’t saying baseballs *don’t* curve, only that a pitcher can’t make it do so. I think they’re full of it.
“Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball “break” or a fastball “rise.”...”
They obviously never played fastpitch softball......The REAL good guys throw inside curves, outside curves, risers, drop balls and really fast fastballs...........
Depends on the angle of release. The 6to 9 curve goes straight down. Not to mention the movement of a split finger fastball going down. This has been studied to death by scientists, but the fact remains that the ball does move. Some pitchers make it move differently than others
You don’t understand. This new progressive-ism driven research has found that the earth jerks around, that the ball doesn’t actually follow a curved trajectory. It’s the same sort of science the AGW authorities use.
I agree. I pitched as a teen, and I could make the ball do amazing things. It DID curve, it DID break. and I as the pitcher made it do it.
Roy Halladay can do it - just ask the Reds...
I looked through the various posts but saw nothing on a related matter, i.e., sliders. It is my amateur knowledge that a slider is a fastball that breaks (usually at the knees) just before reaching the plate. No? Otherwise, what the hell is it?
Yes, the ball is traveling in a straight line through Einsteinian curved space-time. Or something like that. :)
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