Kazuhisa Makita’s Changeup + The Nastiest Pitching GIFs From Monday’s Games

Check out the ten nastiest pitches from Monday's games.

Every morning we review the nastiest pitches from the previous day'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 Contest. Did we miss your favorite pitch? Send us a tweet next time @PitcherList and we'll GIF it up + give you a shoutout here in the article.

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Kazuhisa Makita's Changeup - They say that pitches don't actually rise, but rather have the illusion of rise due to high spin rate.  In this case, Makita's submarine delivery DOES cause this changeup to rise - and cause Trea Turner to swing about 6 inches under it.

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Jessica DeLine

Jessica has about 10 years experience playing (7 with the boys when young and 3 with adult women) baseball. She is from Minnesota but now lives in San Diego. Aside from writing for PitcherList, she is also Editor in Chief at Halos Heaven.

2 responses to “Kazuhisa Makita’s Changeup + The Nastiest Pitching GIFs From Monday’s Games”

  1. Pickles the Drummer says:

    Where’s Ottavino’s Fastball?

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