How to Throw a Slider Pitch

Video Transcript

"The slider is one of the most common pitches and one of the most widely used pitches in baseball. Basically the slider is accomplished by gripping a two seam type grip with the longest finger on your hand being the control finger, the finger that has the most pressure on it, very light amount of pressure on your first finger. It is thrown similar to the curve ball but the velocity is thrown at much more the rate of the fast ball, much more high velocity pitch. The ball breaks a little bit less than a curve ball and breaks very late if it is effective with some downward sinking. Basically the ball is thrown with your wrists more or less at a two or three o'clock position and pulling down and that creates the spin that creates the slider and that's how you grip and throw a slider."