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The heavy ball: some hurlers' offerings are described as being a different sort of pitch, often due to the ball's late-breaking movement.
EVERY OFFICIAL MAJOR LEAGUE baseball weighs between 5 and 5.2 ounces. So how come it feels like catching a feather when some pitchers throw it, and a brick when others throw it? And why do batters feel as if they're hitting a bowling ball when they connect against certain pitchers' deliveries?
Physicists may say there's no such thing as a "heavy" ball if they all weigh the same. But those experts never caught Mike Flanagan or Kevin Brown or Brandon Webb, never swung a bat against Tim Hudson or Kevin Gryboski.
Most players, when asked why some pitchers throw beebees and others shot puts, respond like Phillies pitching coach Joe Kerrigan: "I've been ...
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...2001. El regreso al montculo de su as Kevin Brown, aunado al retorno a las filas de Hideo...bat de Mike Piazza y el liderazgo de Mike Scioscia. PUNTOS DEBILES: Sus pitchers estelares, Kevin Brown y Ashby, regresan despus de lesiones...
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