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Unhittable: Matt Waldron’s 82mph Knuckleball
257 sats \ 7 comments \ @grayruby 7 Jul 2024 Stacker_Sports
Welcome to another edition of Unhittable, where we marvel at the wonder of modern day pitching.
With the help of the Pitching Ninja himself, Rob Friedman, let’s take a look at San Diego Padres Starting Pitcher Matt Waldron’s 82mph Knuckleball.
Nasty stuff. Knuckleballs have a mind of their own. The pitcher doesn’t know where they will end up, so the hitter definitely has no clue. When they work, like this one did, they are Unhittable.
Sats for all, GR
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62 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 7 Jul 2024
82 MPH is too much!
Do you know how much is the fastest in Cricket? It's 100 MPH!!
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28 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 7 Jul 2024
82MPH is very slow for Major League Baseball. Avg is around 95mph and some guys throw even up to 103mph.
A knuckleball is almost a trick pitch. I am sure they have something similar in cricket bowling. The knuckleball is designed to be thrown with no rotation or very little rotation of the ball, which makes it float and do crazy things.
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89 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 7 Jul 2024
We also use knuckleballs in cricket.
I was surprised because the the bowling in baseball is like throwing a ball so it must get more MPHs, while in Cricket you've to rotate your hand completely and can only bend the knew for 15 degrees.
An Illegal Bowling Action is where a player is throwing rather than bowling the ball. This is defined by the ICC as being where the player's elbow extends by an amount of more than 15 degrees between their arm reaching the horizontal and the ball being released.
This is one big difference in Cricket and Baseball.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve 7 Jul 2024
Catching a knuckleball is not easy
I think knuckleball pitchers can play longer but they there is a lot of variance in between
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17 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 7 Jul 2024
The Blue Jays had RA Dickey for a few years and he was all kinds of fun and frustrating to watch.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 7 Jul 2024
He won a Cy Young and played for the Mets?
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 7 Jul 2024
Yeah, and he was pretty good for the Jays as well. When the knuckleball was working he was fun to watch. When it wasn’t it was a tough watch.
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