Pirates pitcher Dauri Moreta has been throwing one of the coolest pitches in baseball this season and even he doesn’t know how he does it or what it should be called.
He threw one of those beauties for a called third strike against the Padres on Tuesday and it left baseball fans wondering what they had just seen.
Here’s how he described the pitch earlier this year to TribLive.com:
“They say, ‘How do you throw that slider?’ I say, ‘I don’t know. I just throw it. [Then] they say, ‘That’s not a slider. We need to find a new name for that pitch. I grip it like a normal slider and throw it like a normal slider. I don’t know why my slider moves like that. It’s something I can’t answer right now.”
Here’s what it looked like the other night:
Dauri Moreta, Wrong Way Slider. ❓
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) July 26, 2023
14 inches of Arm Side Movement pic.twitter.com/x3UwfTuR1Q
Ridiculous.
MLB fans were in awe:
This pitch has officially broken my brain https://t.co/TFYotSXsfs
— FullCountTommy (@FullCountTommy) July 26, 2023
I think I've watched this video twenty times.
— seancahill.bsky.social (@seancahill24) July 27, 2023
I'm no closer now than I was when I started to understanding how this pitch works. https://t.co/02HmvpbZXc
This is messing with my head😵💫 https://t.co/r3Gry20eFO
— Don Waan (@royalwaan) July 26, 2023
Doesn’t matter how many times I see this, my brain will never comprehend what’s happening. https://t.co/rKcEN3VrhI
— BobbyBoom (@Bobby__Boom) July 26, 2023
This is clearly CGI. Right? RIGHT?!?!? https://t.co/c7S9lw9WGK
— Kenneth Gabbert (@Kenneth_Gabbert) July 26, 2023
How?! https://t.co/u66LFPsui2
— Eric B (@ebrimm48) July 26, 2023
I've watched this like 50 times and still don't understand how it moves like this while having slider spin. https://t.co/zp8zpltUgH
— Kollin Miller (@kollin_with_a_k) July 27, 2023
I don’t understand. https://t.co/17rlkecFvv
— Chase Turner (@CTurn20) July 26, 2023
