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    In Major League history, the term knuckle curve or knuckle curveball has been used to describe three different pitches. All are unrelated to the similar...
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    Knuckleball (redirect from Knuckle ball)
    pitch likely resembled the knuckle curve—and Eddie Cicotte of the Chicago White Sox, who in 1908 was nicknamed "Knuckles", are two possible creators...
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    Curveball (redirect from Curve ball)
    curveball, power curveball, and the knuckle curve. Its close relatives are the slider and the slurve. The "curve" of the ball varies from pitcher to pitcher...
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    pitches. The most common breaking pitches are: 12–6 curveball Curveball Knuckle curve Screwball Slider Slurve The changeup is an off-speed pitch, usually...
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    grip a baseball in a way that resulted in an exceptional curveball (or knuckle curve), which broke radically before reaching the plate. With this technique...
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    Slider (pitch) (redirect from Nickel curve)
    Breaking balls Curveball 12–6 knuckle curve Screwball Slider sweeper Slurve Changeups Circle changeup Forkball Fosh Palmball Splitter Straight changeup...
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  • the rainbow curve—gravity curve, The Monty Brewster (a reference to the titular character in Brewster's Millions), and the Bugs Bunny curve, a reference...
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    Breaking balls Curveball 12–6 knuckle curve Screwball Slider sweeper Slurve Changeups Circle changeup Forkball Fosh Palmball Splitter Straight changeup...
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    Breaking balls Curveball 12–6 knuckle curve Screwball Slider sweeper Slurve Changeups Circle changeup Forkball Fosh Palmball Splitter Straight changeup...
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    in all of Major League Baseball. In August 2019, Darvish learned a knuckle curve from Cubs teammate Craig Kimbrel and began using the pitch. Advance...
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  • Breaking balls Curveball 12–6 knuckle curve Screwball Slider sweeper Slurve Changeups Circle changeup Forkball Fosh Palmball Splitter Straight changeup...
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    curve in the late 1870s. In the early 1880s, Clinton Scollard (1860–1932), a pitcher from Hamilton College in New York, became famous for his curve ball...
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    in the minor leagues, believing its use could make Bundy's fastball and curve less effective. Baseball portal Chen, Albert (June 13, 2011). "This Is The...
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    knuckle curve (low 80s MPH). He has decreased the use of his sinker/changeup. His strikeout pitches are high fastballs and a low inside knuckle curve...
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    out at 95 mph, a two-seam fastball, a slider, a changeup, and a plus knuckle-curve. He was always a finesse pitcher, and coming up through the Orioles'...
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    Breaking balls Curveball 12–6 knuckle curve Screwball Slider sweeper Slurve Changeups Circle changeup Forkball Fosh Palmball Splitter Straight changeup...
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    2007. Retrieved April 28, 2021. "Farrell's Fast One Alive; Bunker Controls Curve". The Miami News. May 27, 1964. p. 2B. Retrieved April 23, 2021 – via Newspapers...
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  • High School") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Knuckle Curve. It was serialized on Takeshobo's Web Comic Gamma Plus website from...
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  • and a separate room for his grandmother. After learning a devastating knuckle curve, Sugar is invited to spring training by the fictional Kansas City Knights...
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    (topping out at 99 MPH), a cut fastball that averages 92–93 MPH, and a knuckle curve in the mid-80s that he started throwing in 2013. Davis is the second-cousin...
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    5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) frame), and known for his mastery of the knuckle curve, Fitzsimmons' 217 wins were the third most by a National League (NL)...
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    153 km/h), a changeup 84 to 85 miles per hour (135–137 km/h), and a knuckle curve 79 to 81 miles per hour (127–130 km/h). Wood married his longtime girlfriend...
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    hitting the pitch at only a .167 clip. In 2017, he started to throw a knuckle curve, averaging 77–80 MPH, which he had formerly thrown in high school. In...
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    four-seam fastball, a sinker, a split-finger fastball, a slider, and a knuckle curve . Nolasco goes by the first name "Ricky" because his father named his...
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    splitter in the high 80s (his second-most used pitch in 2021), and a knuckle curve in the low 80s. Nearly half of his pitches with 2 strikes in 2021 were...
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    Gerrit Cole (category Altoona Curve players)
    102 miles per hour (164 km/h) in college. He also throws a slider, knuckle curve, changeup, and as of 2022, has reintroduced his cutter which is a pitch...
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