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ViewDo: How To Throw a Splitfinger Fastball

Know On the Go! - To Download this and other useful ViewDos to your portable viewer for free visit www.viewdo.com Diving heat. This variation on the fastball...

How To Pitch A Split-Fingered Fastball In Baseball

Looking for a educational resource on How To Pitch A Split-Fingered Fastball In Baseball? This invaluable video explains accurately how it's done, and will h...

The Baseball Show: Berg and Ojeda discuss the split-finger fastball

Ted Berg and Bob Ojeda discuss the split-finger fastball in the latest installment of The Baseball Show presented by Pepsi MAX.

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How to Throw a Split-Finger Fastball

Throwing a split-finger fastball in baseball is easier than you may think. Watch this About.com video to see the proper form for pitching this type of fastball.

Freddie Garcia Splitter

Take a look at this high-speed .avi video of NYY Freddie Garcia throwing a split-fingered fastball from a game on April 29, 2011. Look particularly at how th...

Splitfinger and Forkball

Short instructional video talking about the differences between a splitfinger fastball and a forkball. Go to mikescottbaseball.com for fore instructional vid...

Coaching Baseball : How to Throw a Split-Finger Fastball

The split-finger pitch has almost no rotation and has a severe drop when it reaches the plate. Find out how to throw split-finger fastballs with tips from a ...

Throwing a Split Finger Fastball

http://www.90mphclub.com/?split_finger - Coach Reddick discusses the correct way to grip and throw a Split Finger Fastball. Also, who should and should throw...

How To Grip / Throw A Split Finger - (Hardest Pitch To Hit)

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24 news items

 
ESPN
Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:22 -0700

Edward Mujica is the only pitcher in baseball to utilize the split-fingered fastball on more than half his pitches (61 percent). He has ended 12 of his 13 save opportunities with outs made on the pitch and has yet to blow a save for the Cardinals since ...

Bleacher Report

Bleacher Report
Mon, 20 May 2013 00:43:17 -0700

Last season when Tazawa established himself as a quality big league reliever, he was throwing his best pitch, a split-fingered fastball, more than 30 percent of the time. This year, he's only throwing the pitch half as often and is relying too heavily ...
 
Beyond the Box Score
Fri, 17 May 2013 08:26:38 -0700

He also is leaning more on a split fingered fastball with more vertical movement than in years past. You can see his pitch mix here: 2765142013040120130515aaaaamovement. The new and improved arsenal, plus the uptick in strikeouts make me cautiously ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Detroit Free Press
Sun, 12 May 2013 22:01:37 -0700

All of them were fastballs, not one split-fingered fastball. And through all the assorted ugliness, there yet remained the chance to record the save until Michael Brantley knocked one of those fastballs into leftfield for the game-tying run. Yup ...

The Providence Journal (subscription)

The Providence Journal (subscription)
Sat, 11 May 2013 18:18:51 -0700

Before Saturday, Buchholz hadn't bothered even once to throw his split-fingered fastball, a pitch he learned to throw last season when his changeup wasn't working. But Buchholz broke out his splitter on an 0-2 pitch to Melky Cabrera in the first inning ...
 
Eagle-Tribune
Mon, 06 May 2013 09:12:47 -0700

Uehara, on the other hand, doesn't have a blazing fastball (89.1 mph on average) but his deceptive delivery and movement make his fastball, split-fingered fastball and occasional cutter extremely effective. Ross said about Tazawa: “He has such a good ...

Boston Globe

Boston Globe
Thu, 02 May 2013 01:59:02 -0700

And then pitching coach Juan Nieves lays this bombshell on us — Buchholz has a sixth pitch – a split-fingered fastball he hasn't used yet. When asked how effective the split-fingered pitch is, Nieved just shook his head and said, “Unbelievable.” ...
 
MinnPost.com
Wed, 01 May 2013 12:39:27 -0700

Pitch classifications are always tricky, and in Correia's case, what PitchFX is calling a "changeup" is actually what he calls a split-fingered fastball. And he's throwing that pitch a whole lot more often this season while significantly reducing his ...
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