best strikeout pitch

[experiencingtechnicaldiff]

What is the best pitch to throw in High School baseball to strike someone out?

My vote goes for a the high heat. If you can throw decently hard, it is hard for high school hitters to catch up to something around the neck...

[berry186]

What is the best pitch to throw in High School baseball to strike someone out?

My vote goes for a the high heat. If you can throw decently hard, it is hard for high school hitters to catch up to something around the neck...

i agree with him high heat    changes eye angle if dont swing and is a good waste pitch      then you can change speeds after that pitch

[knights4]

i agree probably the hardest pitch to hit, i dont think it even has to be a decent speed. it so decieving, it seems like it commin right down the tube, then u swing at a ball at ur eyes and walk back to the dugout wondering what the heck u were doing  

[experiencingtechnicaldiff]

its fun as a pitcher when you strike someone out on that and the player who strikes out yells while meandering back to the dugout.. "WHY DID I SWING AT THAT!?" Good times, good times!! It is one of the most decieving pitches to hit. If you swing, you will probably pop it up or foul off or miss everything.. There really isn't a winning situation in that if you swing...

[Number7]

High heat especially with wood bats, but you throw that pitch high and out of the zone on 0-2 and follow it with the circle change-up low and away. Theres a beautiful Strike out for You! or having someone bail out and watch a curve drop over the middle of plate is nice too

[berry186]

you have some of those swings being the tomohawk swings   that is fun to watch

[ndpreps]

Gotta be the curve specially if its good.  So sweet when the kid just bails or his knees just buckle and swings hoping to make contact.

[Strike3?]

Changeup, best pitch in baseball and a good strike out pitch

[ndpreps]

Anything that makes the batter look foolish.

[Number7]

Changeup, best pitch in baseball and a good strike out pitch

I definately agree, the hardest to master but when effective its amazing.  It definately should be taught before the curveball to young ptichers, just like a fastball on the arm and changes speed and eye-level. Its the most underrated pitch and is nasty when effective  A.K.A. Johan Santana, best change-up = Best MLB pitcher, but his change isnt the only reason he's so good

[knights4]

it's effective if u can throw a hard enough fastball, to make the change that much more harder to hit, santana throws 95, so the changeup looks like a fastball but it's slower, in high school guys dont throw that hard so the speed differencial is less, so if u get fooled u still can make good contact because it's not 15 mph slower like santana's is

[Number7]

Yea thats a very good point but it is great for easy groundballs to the left side and alot of 6-3 put outs, especially since it should dive down hitters get on top of it and pound it into the ground

[knights4]

there's no doubt about that, but i was talking strikeout pitches, and i think the best is the high heat in high school, but there are always exceptions, someone may have an exceptional curve, change, ect 

[beachy]

I personally as being a pitcher for boht school baseball and legion baseball i liek to use the curve to strike a guy out but if it is not working that day or nigh then i jsut go with a high fast ball......

[ricky bobby]

what about a fastball low and away

[sodadrinker]

depends on the pitcher... last year kevin buxa could keep batters guessing and strike them out with a fastball, slider, or change up.....i pitched alot in babe ruth and in legion and the best strike out pitch for me was a curve ball that drops in the dirt

[footballfanwatcher_99]

i agree curveball is the best, drops down and catches them looking, best strike out is to have them go down looking

[power-aid14]

no, the best strike-out pitch has got to be the Gyroball. i ring kids up constantly  with it....considering it is my best pitch

[footballfanwatcher_99]

ya i bet its not a true gyroball, just a screwball, one the other post someone put that only 2 people in the pros have thrown a true gyro ball, so ya bet its not a true gyroball just a screwball.

[sodadrinker]

ya i bet its not a true gyroball, just a screwball, one the other post someone put that only 2 people in the pros have thrown a true gyro ball, so ya bet its not a true gyroball just a screwball.

im gonna go out on a limb and say that he wasnt being seirous sayin he can throw that pitch

[knights4]

that's pretty sturdy limb more like a tree trunk, i will guarentee he was kidding, but hey ya never maybe he's matuzaka himself 

[brownbomber]

i would go with the low and away or high cheddar and a low inside change up definately the most decieving and hardest to get a piece of

[knights4]

i'm suprised at how many of u said changeup, are u talking high school, or majors, cause i dont think most guys at the high school level can throw a hard enough fastball to make the changeup effective

[power-aid14]

ya i bet its not a true gyroball, just a screwball, one the other post someone put that only 2 people in the pros have thrown a true gyro ball, so ya bet its not a true gyroball just a screwball.

im gonna go out on a limb and say that he wasnt being seirous sayin he can throw that pitch

thank you sodadrinker...you understood the joke.

[Bison Rule]

I don't know if I'd call a change up the best stike out pitch, but I think it is the best pitch, period (especially if you can make it dip a little bit).   For one thing, very few kids have one, which means the hitters don't see it very often.  In 05 when Velva went deep into the regional tournament in Minnesota the biggest single difference between Velva and everybody else, is that all their pitchers had change ups, which ranged any where from pretty good to real good.   Nothing takes the aggressiveness out of a hitter faster than getting him out on that front foot, lunging for a pitch that if he hits it, is gonna be a weak roller to third.