accuracy: help needed

[Billybob622]

Today I came in for relief (i normally start, but it was a pre-season game and coach wanted all of us to pitch). I struck out the first batter, and retired the next two batters. It was only a seven inning game, and I came in the 6th. However, during the seventh inning, I got the first batter out, but then all i did was walk the next three batters. Then the coach took me out and put in another pitcher (thank god...)

I asked the coach what I was doing wrong, and he said that I was rushing on a few pitches and that I had looked really nervous and tense, but other than that everything was fine.

As for what I noticed, I usually stick or extend my GS leg out (aka Roy Oswalt). However, for some reason in the 7th after I retired the first batter, I really didn't do that, but more or less kept it bent. It kinda made me wanna stride more, not noticing the change I had. Would this have caused me to rush?

Also, i throw a "true slider" (one that uses pressure of the fingers, instead of twisting the wrist or things like that) and it didn't work today. I know how to throw a curve, but I'm not very good at it, because the break is crazy. It drops a lot, almost as much as 12-6 curve, but kinda has the same break horizonatally, breaking from the inside corner to the leftie's batter's box.

How could I get better control of it and have it break 12-6? (the catcher said that when I'd throw it, that I'd supinate(?), the opposite of pronate, my wrist and forearm, making me look like I was almost throwing sidearm.)

[Go Cardinals]

maybe you are dropping your elbow and hanging your pitches like jeff weaver does when he isn't pitching well

[Go Cardinals]

Today I came in for relief (i normally start, but it was a pre-season game and coach wanted all of us to pitch). I struck out the first batter, and retired the next two batters. It was only a seven inning game, and I came in the 6th. However, during the seventh inning, I got the first batter out, but then all i did was walk the next three batters. Then the coach took me out and put in another pitcher (thank god...)

I asked the coach what I was doing wrong, and he said that I was rushing on a few pitches and that I had looked really nervous and tense, but other than that everything was fine.

As for what I noticed, I usually stick or extend my GS leg out (aka Roy Oswalt). However, for some reason in the 7th after I retired the first batter, I really didn't do that, but more or less kept it bent. It kinda made me wanna stride more, not noticing the change I had. Would this have caused me to rush?

Also, i throw a "true slider" (one that uses pressure of the fingers, instead of twisting the wrist or things like that) and it didn't work today. I know how to throw a curve, but I'm not very good at it, because the break is crazy. It drops a lot, almost as much as 12-6 curve, but kinda has the same break horizonatally, breaking from the inside corner to the leftie's batter's box.

How could I get better control of it and have it break 12-6? (the catcher said that when I'd throw it, that I'd supinate(?), the opposite of pronate, my wrist and forearm, making me look like I was almost throwing sidearm.)

also, to me it sounds like your thinking about it too much. baseball is instincual. go out there and just be yourself, and don't worry. by pitchign well in the first inning and the first batter of the 7th shows that you an do it right.

[Billybob622]

also, to me it sounds like your thinking about it too much. baseball is instincual. go out there and just be yourself, and don't worry. by pitchign well in the first inning and the first batter of the 7th shows that you an do it right.

I came in, in the 6th. Got all the batters out, and the 1st of the 7th, then walked three.

Also, the catcher said I dropping my arm when throwing a curve. Could that cause is to move drastically to the left?

[kylebee]

I came in, in the 6th. Got all the batters out, and the 1st of the 7th, then walked three.

Also, the catcher said I dropping my arm when throwing a curve. Could that cause is to move drastically to the left?

Dropping your arm slot when you throw a breaking ball will result in the pitch getting tipped because of the different delivery and it can result in a slurve-like pitch with more horizontal break.

The best curveballs are the ones with the most vertical movement, not horiztonal movement. The batter has to line the bat up correctly on the vertical plane to make solid contact - he doesn't have to line it up perfectly on the horizontal plane.

[Go Cardinals]

I came in, in the 6th. Got all the batters out, and the 1st of the 7th, then walked three.

Also, the catcher said I dropping my arm when throwing a curve. Could that cause is to move drastically to the left?

definatly. throw a curveball side arm (slowly you can hurt ur arm), and it will go sideways, its like throwing sidearm. also, it causes the pitch to hang, then they are fat pitches down the middle. In the pictures i showed you, the outcome of the one with the cards was a strike out in the ws, the one on the dodgers was either a good hit (off a fat pitch) or a walk. you need to throw more over the top, but as i said before, don't really think about it.