How to Throw a Change-Up

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is John Riedling and I'm going to talk with you about throwing a change-up. Now throwing a change-up, there's many grips you can choose from. All a change-up is is it's a slower speed off your fastball. It's deception, change speed with it. Now with the grip, there's many ways. One way is a circle change, just like that, it shows you the circle right there. And you hold it deep in your fingers. It's just the opposite of throwing a fastball because a fastball you want to hold loose. A change-up you want to throw back in your hand and get as many fingers on it to slow the pitch down. Another way to throw a change-up is putting the ball at the back of your hand and throwing with your smaller fingers, your weaker fingers. That's another way to change the speed on a change-up. On a change-up you throw just like a fastball you don't change anything, the grip takes the speed off the pitch. So the whole time you're thinking fastball, fastball, fastball, fastball the whole way and the grip's going to take the speed off. And right now I'm going to show you how to throw a change-up. I'm John Riedling and that's how you throw a change-up."