How to Throw a Knuckleball
When you've got this pitch under control, hitters have no idea when to swing. When it's out of control, though, even the pitcher doesn't know where the ball is going! Here are a few easy steps to fool your hitters.
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Instructions
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Grip the baseball by clenching the top of the ball with the tips of your index, middle and ring fingers just below the seams. Dig the tips of your fingers deep into the ball.
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Place your thumb below the ball to give it support. Keep your pinkie off to the side.
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Go into your windup. Remember to pivot and shift your body weight from the back foot forward toward home plate.
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Throw the ball toward home, but don't snap your wrist - keep it stable, eliminating as much spin as possible.
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Follow through. Extend all fingers toward home plate as you release the pitch. Your feet should be parallel at the end of the pitch, and your throwing arm should come across the front of your body.
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Tips & Warnings
An effective knuckleball moves in two or three different directions in flight.
Try a variation on the knuckleball grip by using just the index and middle fingers on the top of the ball. The ring finger joins the pinkie off to the side.
The slower the pitch, the more time the ball has to weave toward home plate.
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Comments
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how do you throw a knuckleball and fastball because I don't know how.
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hi! mom
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Wonderfull It Feels Good To Throw Again! My Technique Is Slightly Different Tho, I Don't use my ring finger at all and throw side armed so its more or less a curved knuckle. not very accurate, but itll sure throw them for a loop!
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danmaxwell
Mar 05, 2010
I threw a submarine style knuckleball in college. Tossing the ball from only a foot off the ground I would let drift upward and sail back down. Holding runners at first was efffective from the stretch by holding both hands down, thus the release in either direction was a single move. -
bmarek
Oct 21, 2009
I found that the less effort you put into throwing a knuckleball the nastier it gets. Basically if you throw like you are letting your arm go limp in mid throw the ball has more time to travel, and thus more time for the wind to act on the ball.
