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Alex

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Armadon said:
Any other other ballpark offer summer passes? I bought one for the dbacks for 180 bucks to go to all the game June. July. And August. Not amny people show up so you can pretty much sit anywhere. Just curious if it's just a dbacks thing. It is nice just going to the ballpark when you got nothing going on.
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Nothing like that. But I've bought ticket packages for multiple games throughout the season. Used to do it for the A's back in 2012-2015 when they actually tried. My dad would get us passes to the Reds when we were growing up too. It would be for 20 games throughout the season or something like that.
 
Armadon

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I felt like sitting here for tonight's game
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TheNozz

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Hey what kind of pitch is this called?

I drew an arrow to trace the path of the theoretical pitch, I’m not concerned with the speed although if there are different versions based on speed, what are they called?

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The pitch intially looks like it’s going inside towards the batter but then breaks back into the zone

In this example it’s righty vs righty, but what would it be called if it could be done a righty pitcher vs a lefty batter?
 
Jovec

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Batter doesn't matter, pitch types are determined the pitcher's throwing arm and the direction the ball moves. Your example would be a cutter or slider depending on pitch speed and amount of movement (which are usually related).

fast and straight (near level) = fastball
fast and some glove side movement = cutter
fast and some throwing side movement = two-seamer
fast and some down movement = sinker

slow and more glove side movement (6"), typically w/some down movement = slider
slow and even more glove side movement (15"), typically w/some down movement = sweeper / sweeper slider
slow and some throwing side movement, typically w/some down movement= change up
slow and more down movement = curve

It's not quite that black and white as pitches types get blended.
 
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Alex

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Ken Griffey Jr's last deferred payment from the Reds is today.
 
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Kaines

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Ohtani and the Dodgers are going to make these deferred payments look like a child's allowance when those payments come due.
 
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Fight

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Gavinmad said:
Speaking of hilarious disappointments, how about that catastrophic decline by Tim Anderson? From league batting title and arguably the hottest rising star in the sport to one of the worst, if not the worst player in the league in just a couple years
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That white sox stank is hard to get off, and Jose Ramirez punches hard. Tim is done.
 
DickTrickle

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Gavinmad said:
Speaking of hilarious disappointments, how about that catastrophic decline by Tim Anderson? From league batting title and arguably the hottest rising star in the sport to one of the worst, if not the worst player in the league in just a couple years.
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Ever since he got butt hurt about being called Jackie mockingly and trying to make it about racism instead of someone mocking him about his ego.
 
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Gavinmad

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Unidin said:
Or he injured his knee which effected his swing. But yeah, go with the Jackie thing.
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He's always been laughably undisciplined in the batter's box and an at best "decent" fielder who was constantly injured. But yeah, go with the knee thing.
 
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Anyone happen to be at the Dodgers game last night for the 7th inning stretch? lmao
 
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