The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with ... “Some days it was like, ‘I don’t know how to control this thing.’” Nelson indeed could be wild, but he routinely ...

TAMPA — There’s a new slider sweeping Yankeetown. It’s often thrown with a two-seam grip, works the horizontal plane more than a typical slider does, and is developed to play off of true two ...

It’s not a slider. It’s just his breaking ball—the pitch that helped him win the Cy Young in 2014 and ’17, and that still bedevils hitters today, with far more horizontal break than a ...

However, each falls into the classification of cutter and shares a similar trait of having less horizontal movement than a fastball or slider while cutting only a few inches. A more standard ...