TORONTO -- In Game 6 of the World Series on Friday, two of the foremost practitioners of the pitch that has defined October will duel at Rogers Centre. Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu ...
Welcome to the Postseason of the Splitter. More than pumpkin spice, the split-finger fastball has become the flavor of the month. Its use in the postseason (6% of all pitches, or 17.4 per game) has ...
The splitter had fallen out of fashion and all but disappeared from the majors. Now, it’s out of hibernation—and bamboozling ...
In that respect, Sasaki's splitter more resembled the spin killers currently deployed by the Mariners' star trio of Logan ...