MLB pitchers can do some silly things with baseballs these days. Did you see that beautiful pitch by Atlanta’s Charlie Morton earlier this week? The one that started like 9 feet out of the strike zone before painting the corner for a called third strike?
It was so beautiful. I probably watched it like 50 times.
Well, now I have another incredible pitch that I can’t stop watching and it was thrown by Tampa’s Corey Kluber. Like Morton’s, this thing had 17 inches of break and the way it zips in to the catcher’s mitt is absolutely wild to me. It was also wild to the Angels’ Jared Walsh, who didn’t know what to do with it.
Check this out:
Corey Kluber, Mean 81mph Breaking Ball. 😤
17 inches of horizontal break. pic.twitter.com/CMWBhUjG8E
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) August 23, 2022
Mesmerizing. So much spin!
It’s just takes that turn to the mitt like it’s being controlled by a remote control.
Twitter loved it.
Mean? That was downright rude…
— 🏴JJ ⚾ (@jeffery410) August 24, 2022
love the slow mo clip…cool to see the ball seemingly float to the inside corner. 💪17 inch break 😲
— Renee (@RenantcC) August 24, 2022
The ball was already in the mitt when he swung 😭
— Icy (@Aka_lcy) August 23, 2022
https://t.co/jTmg4DUcr9 pic.twitter.com/CsfxdKZbXk
— Eric Mack (@chicagosportfn1) August 23, 2022
I don’t think people understand how ungodly hard it is to hit MLB pitching. https://t.co/dNOMHdMh2b
— Reed Carringer (@ReedCarringer) August 23, 2022
shoutout to the Tampa camera angles for not completely masking the horizontal movement on curveballs
— kyle schwarber ❤️ backwards Ks (@thefriffin) August 24, 2022
