Here comes the pitch, and … freeze it there. Pause for a second. At this instant, the moment a pitcher releases the baseball, a path has been chosen, and the ball is about to embark on it. The ...

The feel of the baseball is just a little bit different. Just the way I was throwing it was not giving me any sort of the depth on the splitter.” This is the grip Tanaka used on his splitter ...

Grab a baseball, then jam it between your index and middle fingers, stretching them wide apart. After 10 or 15 throws with that awkward grip, the muscles and ligaments already begin to ache.

For Masahiro Tanaka, the discovery of the splitter grip eventually spawned two splitter variations -- a tumbling one Tanaka throws for strikes early in the count, and a sharper offering he ...

PHILADELPHIA — Baseball is a small world, and often the smallest acts can have major ramifications. Like, for example, in May when Taijuan Walker said something to Carlos Carrasco about his ...

Five trending starting pitchers and how interested we should be for fantasy baseball. ... but this version of Kevin Gausman with his long-lost splitter grip feels like it can be close to the 2023 ...

The Chicago Cubs' Shota Imanaga is one of only 16 left-handed starters in the last 17 seasons to throw a splitter, a pitch he is using to generate whiffs at an incredible rate.

With a save Thursday, Orioles relief pitcher Félix Bautista has retired 25 of his past 26 batters while striking out 14 of them. The 52.9% whiff rate on his splitter is the highest in the majors ...

How baseball got a grip about splitter risks. Kevin Gausman, the Toronto Blue Jays’ All-Star who wields one of the game’s best and most used splitters, knows all about the old splitter stigma.