Every Monday we review the nastiest pitches from the previous weekends's games in glorious HD GIFs. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite pitch and check back this weekend to see if it will be in contention for the GIF of the First Half. Did we miss your favorite pitch? Send us a tweet next time @ThePitcherList and we'll GIF it up + give you a shoutout here in the article.
Congrats to Jharel Cotton's Changeup for winning Nastiest Pitching GIF of the Week! A dirty changeup that Pedro Martinez says reminds him of himself.
Chris Sale's Fastball - Sale has gotten off to a great start to his Red Sox career showing his velocity and command right off the bat. Here he uses a pristine Fastball right on the inside corner to get Rickie Weeks looking.
I refuse to believe that Kimbrel’s is a curveball, that has slider spin all over it.
Side angle delivery makes it seem more like a Slider, but it’s a Knuckle-Curve through-and-through.
This is one of the nastiest set of nasty pitching gifs that I’ve seen on PL! The fastball placement by Sale/deGrom! Oh! But those curveballs are all SOOO nasty. I knew I was voting for Strasburg… until I scrolled and saw Nola’s… and then Betances’… and then Kimbrel’s. And to top it off, Thor’s change might be the straight nastiest of all of these!