How to Throw a Slider

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm John Riedling and I'm going to talk with you about throwing a slider. Now when throwing a slider the important thing is the grips. There's different ways you can hold it but like I said the important thing is on the grips. Where you have something to push off. Either hold it this way or you have it the long way and have more of the seam to throw against. When you're throwing a slider, mechanics have a big role in throwing a proper slider. But the key thing and the mechanics to throwing a good slider is your finishing. Now when you're throwing a slider it's just like a fastball, you want to think fastball the whole way and at the last second you turn your wrist in. Okay? And with your wrist you want to have it loose, you don't want to have it stiff. So on a slider, you think fastball, fastball, fastball, fastball, fastball, slider. That will get you the late break and that will get you a nice tight slider. And now I'm going to demonstrate how to throw a slider. I'm John Riedling and that's how you throw a slider."