espn's the most devastating pitches

oooo...I have another for your list Bob*

Luis Tiant's Lob Ball

lol

 

Ah, ok. You guys are looking at a link to "today's" pitchers. Here's a link to what I was looking at.

Baseball's Greatest Pitches of All Time

 

how is shane reynolds on that list? is his splitter that dominate?

 

How good was Walter Johnson in his prime?

 

Shane has a very good splitter; not Mike Scottish though.

 

How 'bout Rip Sewell's ephus?

Also, Gooden had a pretty damn good curve there for a while.

In in first year with the Dodgers, Hideo Nomo's splitter, combined with his delivery, made him about the only successfull two pich pitcher that struck guys out as a starter. It was all fastball-spiltter, and when he could hit the strike zone, nobody could touch him.

I'd also like to point out that, until the thirties, pitches such as the slider were considered 'junk pitches' and nobody'd invented the splitfinger/forkball yet.

 

Thanks, BigM for pointing out that other article.

 

Sure, but can you remember what happened yesterday?

Actually, I remember that series too. Fred Lynn was a favorite of mine, and my dad is from Ohio, so the Reds were his favorite team. We were a house divided that October!

 

Yes I do. I saw him do it on an NBC Game of the Week. Before cable tv we only got to see 1 game a week, and that was on Saturdays.

Anyways, Perry would go behind the mound and grab the rosin bag, toss it up in the air a couple of times, until he got a good amount a rosin in his hand. He would then throw the pitch and there would be a white cloud, making it hard for the batter to pick up the pitch.

 

I actually saved (and still have) the Houston Chronicle sports pages from every game of that series It's nice to look back and refresh my memory

 

I was luckier than you, I guess. Although we lived 200 miles from Chicago, we still got WGN broadcasted to us before cable came out. We got to see all the Cubbies with Jack Brickhouse....baaaack...baaaaaaaack....baaaaaaaaaaaack....hey hey, it's a home run. Sounded like he was going to have a heart attack.

As for the Puff Ball, as I remember it, he only threw it once. Wasn't it kinda a joke in his last game only, as a way to laugh about cheating all his life.

 

You may be right, but I could swear I saw him do it on a nationally televised game in the mid 1970's. There was another pitcher that used to load up a handful of dirt and then throw the pitch (can't remember who it was). This was around the same time as Perry, so I could be confusing the 2 pitchers.

 

Good article on Perry: http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/bp/1383204.html

 

MLB's most hittable pitch: Anything thrown by Jose Lima

 

or Nelson Cruz

 

Good Article, Buck. Thanks for the link.

Now to find out who through that "dirt ball"

 

ONLY if the game is on the line, or he has a 16 run lead.