How To Play Baseball: Specific Pitches

Phillips here is working on his fastball. We will want to work on now is a change up. You got to understand that hitting is timing, pitching is interrupting time to keep the hitter on that is what we have got to do is work on our own speed. The best pitch in baseball is still the fastball. However, we have got to throw the change up. We got to make him stay back and wait on us. If we do not, they will lock on load on us every time. So, what Phillip is going to do, he is going to throw the circle change up. He is going to get the grip a little bit deeper, in the palm. He has got the circle here. When he throws his change up, basically the mechanics are the same. He is going to take a tag longer strike. He is going to drag the back foot a little; that is going to enable him to slow the arm down and make the pitch die at the play. This is a good pitch right here. (Demonstration)(Music Playing) Other than the circle change, Phillip can also throw what we call it “Two-fingered shook”. Where we take the ball, we would push back deeper in the palm. Demonstration) You could grip it like a fastball; just push it deeper into his hand. He could throw a three-finger change up. They all depend on whether what the players want to try to do. Do not try to lock him into one specific change up. Let us throw a couple more. (Demonstration) What Timmy is doing now, he is working on his gut fastball. It has been proven that if you did not get inches in moving on the velocity of the ball also. The inch is going to add to that velocity. If you can make the ball move and run, you better run off as a pitcher because anything that goes straight it in my opinion, go straight out. So, we want as much movement on the balls, we can possible get. What Timmy does, he has rotate his hand a little bit more further up on the ball. He has got his thumb tucked on the back side with one another. He is going to throw through the ball, just let it kind of run out and gets a little sink and run actionably. So, he got Tito to work on the cut fastball. Remember, movement is very important. The better the more the ball moves, the better off you are going to be as a pitcher. Here we go. (Demonstration)(Music Playing) What Timmy has just done is work on his fastball and I am going to work on a curve ball a little bit with the full mechanical wind up from the mount. What I am going to ask him to do, is on his fastball, he has got his normal strategy. As you can see, which is way out here. What I asking him to do is shortened up just a little bit on the curve ball. By shorten up on a curve ball, when he gets there it goes fastball, fastball, curve. He shortens his strike. Now, he can get more leverage on top of the ball, thus been able to get over and finish it. Tim was stride out, way out, just stride way out for me Timmy. He strives out with his normal fastball strike and tries to throw a curve. (Demonstration)(Music Playing) Now, he cannot really get a good finish, so he is going to hang it curve but if he brings a strike foot back a little bit and now, he is able to throw the ball and finish and get on top of it. So, let us try it Timmy. (Demonstration)(Music Playing) He is going to concentrate just a little short of stride and saying fastball, fastball, curve and get it on top of it. (Demonstration)(Music Playing) Not bad. (Music Playing) Remember, when you throw the curve ball. You want to say to yourself, fastball, fastball, curve, get the hand in the proper position. Do your mechanical drill for this and also, we want the curve for the right hand to break low and wait for the right hand of the batter and low into the left hand. Remember that, low on the way right hander, low it in. So, basically we are going to be outside the lower right knee of your catcher. Work on the curve ball use the mechanical drills and get on top of it. (Music Playing) What Phillip is working on now is what we call the “Sinker”. This is a pitch you want to use where depth situation or there is a runner in a scoring position, a tie in run and go hit run, maybe you want that double play ball. What he does basically, is grip like his fastball, however, what his going to do is move his thumb up a little bit on the side. But you must be aware, the more you move thumb up, the more bite you are going to sink you are going to get but however, it is going to slow it down a little bit. You need to experiment with just what is enough for you so that when you get the mounting, you can get the determination of the amount of sink you want. So, his going to continue to work on it, again. Just like the fastball except we slide the thumb up on the out or the inside of the ball. The same wrist action, now, we get a little sink. Maybe we want the ground ball or double play ball. Here we go. (Demonstration) Got it. (Music Playing)