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Golf vs. Baseball

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learn about pitching is to have proper mechanics and delivery.  Different pitchers stand on different sides on the rubber of the pitching mound.  There really isn’t one right spot on the rubber.  It depends on whether the pitcher is right-handed or left-handed and how their ball moves.  For instance, both Tom Glavine and Steve Avery, two Major League players, are both lefties but they stand on different sides of the rubber.  Glavine stands on the third-base side so he can get a better angle off of his sinker and his change-up.  In contrast, Avery stands on the first-base side because he has a very powerful fast ball.

With the pitching delivery, the throwing elbow should be shoulder height with a bend of 90 degrees.  The glove arm should be pointing towards the target while the weight is still balanced between the feet.  The delivery starts by squashing the rubber with the pivot foot.  The shoulders then rotate with the hips.  The shoulders and head both remain behind the front knee.  And then, the throwing arm should travel straightforward until it gets to the release point.  The glove hand should be pulled close to the chest but not swinging it away from the body.  The chest, belly button, back knee, and chin should be pointing to the target at this point ready to release the ball.

The grip on the ball has a huge effect on the movement of the pitches.  Several pitches are gripped differently giving it different rotations on the ball.  To throw a four-seam fastball, a pitch with high velocity but barely any movement, the grip should be across the horseshoe.  With the two-seam fastball, a sinking high velocity fastball, the grip should be with the seams.  The two fingers should actually be resting and touching the seams.  The curveball or slider, a ball that curves horizontally and down, is gripped with the thumb on the bottom and the rest of the fingers on the top with either a two- or four-seam grip.  The change-up, a fastball that does not have a high velocity, is usually

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