How to Throw a Forkball

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm John Riedling and today I'm going to talk with you about throwing a fork ball. Throwing a fork ball is pretty much just a grip. It's like throwing a fast ball but all you're doing is just splitting your fingers just like that and that is how you grip a fork ball. The key in throwing a quality fork ball is your follow through, your finishing. When throwing a fork ball you want to have a loose wrist. You don't want to have it stiff, you want to have it loose and you want to finish and have full extension and what a fork ball does is it tumbles and it takes off speed and hitters will be ahead of it and it will drop late so when they have to commit on the ball the ball will tumble and they will miss the ball and now I am going to demonstrate how to throw a fork ball. I'm John Riedling and that's how you throw a fork ball."