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There are curveballs, and then there is the pitch Zack Greinke pulled out of his procure of tricks Monday evening.
The Houston Astros starter threw a 51 mph floater to Detroit Tigers first baseman Renato Nunez within the fifth inning—a velocity Nunez seemingly hadn’t encountered since he used to be a teenager:
The energy of such a pitch is twofold:
- The batter never sees it coming. No one throws that slowly in MLB.
- The hitter is knowledgeable to react in a split second. The eephus destroys any and all calibrations.
Strive it too most frequently, on the opposite hand, and also you are going to pay.
The reveal option left for Greinke is to double down on the shortage of velocity and to lob the ball to the plate underhanded, Rookie of the 300 and sixty five days vogue. How boring can he go?
