Every week we review the nastiest pitches from the previous week in glorious HD GIFs. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite pitch and check back Saturday to see if it will be in contention for the GIF of the First Half Contest. Week 3's winner was Adam Ottavino's Slider.
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.
This was my favorite week of the season so far for nasty pitches! Will Blake Treinen's Slider win out this week? Or will it be Noah Syndegaard's Sinker? Maybe Blake Snell's Curveball? It's tough to pick just one, but vote now and check back next week to see which pitch carried the week.
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Chaz Roe's Slider - The 31-year-old is getting a ridiculous 12.5 inches of horizontal break on this pitch so far, which is up from 2017's 9.8 (the average righty sits at roughly 2.8 inches). That's so awe-inspiring, even his catcher couldn't track it—at least not on this offering to Philadelphia's Scott Kingery.
Great work on this column, keep them coming! These are so much fun to enjoy.
I need to take a shower after all that filthy.
I wish we had catcher’s eye views of these pitches. It would be simultaneously terrifying and enthralling to see the movement without center field camera distortion. That Syndergaard pitch looks like it’s gonna paint the outside corner, then just nopes out of there.
BWE Glossary= best website ever…