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Rip Sewell is credited with inventing the eephus pitch.
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What is an Eephous pitch?
An "eephus" pitch is a low velocity throw with a high arc, designed to trick the batter by disrupting his timing. Although the origin of the name "eephus" isn't definitively know it's suspected that it may be based on the Hebrew word "efes" meaning "nothing".
What is the eephus pitch?
When I caught in highschool it was used as a brutally slow change up. Sometimes the pitcher would throw it 10 feet in the air in a huge arc. Very demeaning to the batter. See Web Links for Video of the eephus pitch in action, Cleveland vs. New York, July 24, 1970.
How do you grip the eephus pitch?
eephus pitchlookin to be a good pitcher?...............well this is agood pitch grab a ball ......ok now pick up the ball like a change up when you throw lob it a bit and watch it strike out the batter There is a certain way you need to hold an eephus. You need to grab a baseball. The two seams you would hold to throw a two seamed fastball need to be side to side instead of up and down. Then you hold the bottom seam with your thumb and index finger. Then you throw it as a normal fastball and as you throw it the ball will fly out of your hand with the rotation going forward. Then as the ball gets closer it just tumbles down a good 5 feet. I learned to throw this from my pitching coach who played 4 years D2 ball.
Who was the first person to throw a pitch in a major league baseball game?
The first person to throw a pitch in a major league baseball game was Bobby Mathews of the Fort Wayne Kekiongas against the Cleveland Forest Cities on May 4, 1871. The first batter in a major league game, Deacon White, hit a double. I don't know if it was on the first pitch, though.
Who was the first president to not throw the first pitch of the baseball season?
George Washington.
Did Regis Philbin ever throw out the first pitch at a Yankees game?
no
Who was the first first lady to throw out a first pitch at a major league baseball game?
Barbara Bush
How fast does Alex Rodriguez pitch?
he can throw 110 mph from 3rd to first
What president didn't throw the first pitch in a baseball game?
Since the tradition was began by Taft in 1910, Jimmy Carter was the only president who never threw out an opening day pitch . He did throw out the first pitch at a World Series game in 1079.
First president to throw out the first pitch on opening day of Major League Baseball?
William Howard Taft
What President did not throw a pitch at a baseball game?
The first President to throw out a first pitch in Major League Baseball was William Howard Taft in 1910. So none of the earlier Presidents did. Since then, every US President has tossed a pitch in either the All Star Game, the World Series, or the first game of the baseball season.
How much does it cost to throw out the first pitch at a padres game?
You can do it for 220,000. - GM SD Padres.
