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Charles Curtis

Cubs catcher Tucker Barnhart threw the most beautiful 39 MPH eephus for a called strike

Two things came together beautifully here: We got a position player pitching, and a gorgeous eephus pitch for a strike.

The player in question in Tucker Barnhart, who came in to the 11-5 Chicago Cubs loss to the Boston Red Sox to do cleanup duty in the ninth inning and allowed just one hit. Pretty awesome.

He was throwing super slow pitches, including some eephuses (eephi?). We’ve got to concentrate on one pitch that was a 39 MPH rainbow that was called a strike, even if the broadcast angle didn’t make it look like one.

Check this beauty out and a subsequent out Barnhart got:

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