Eephus pitch

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The Eephus pitch is a throwing technique used by a pitcher in baseball . It is a ball that is purposely thrown high and slowly, intended to confuse the opposing batsman to the point of hitting the ball completely wrong or not at all.

history

In the 1940s was pitcher Rip Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates as pitcher with a good fastball known as the changeup an intentionally slow arc lamp threw. He was able to throw it so surprisingly that this "lob" was not hit by many batsmen - to the amusement of the fans present and to the humiliation of the teased batsmen. Sewell called his gag pitch the "Eephus", which means "nonsense" or "nothing" in baseball slang. Later Eephus users were u. a. Phil Niekro , Satchel Paige or Bill "Spaceman" Lee , who even used the pitch in the 7th game of the 1975 World Series : The result was a home run by Tony Pérez , which heralded the victory of his Cincinnati Reds against the Boston Red Sox .

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