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How to Throw a Curveball
The baseball pitching grip most young pitchers want to learn how to throw is the curveball.
Except for the release, the curveball is thrown with the same mechanics as the fastball. Once a pitcher understands that important fact, he will easily learn the proper way to throw a good curveball.
A good curve breaks both vertically and horizontally and also changes speeds. For young pitchers, a flat curve will work because the hitter will bail out. However, the older a pitcher gets, the more he needs to develop downward movement, because older hitters have learned to adjust and stay in to hit the ball. The curve that breaks down is obviously more difficult to hit since the bat is narrower than it is long.
Curveball Grip: The middle finger is the primary source of pressure and is placed against the inside of a seam. It can be gripped several ways, but the most common is the four-seam grip. In this grip, the fingers go in the open end of a horseshoe and are placed against the seam (right side for a right-handed pitcher, left side for a left-handed pitcher). The curve uses a lot of the finger, unlike the fastball, which holds the ball in the fingertips. The index finder simply lies next to the middle finger in the curve grip
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