[轉錄]Forkball and splitter

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作者: CCLu (Lu) 看板: NY-Yankees
標題: Forkball and splitter
時間: Mon Aug 25 23:54:05 2003

早上起床看New York Times看到Mel Stottlemyre和幾個O's的打者談昨天
Contreras的splitter，他們認為那個比較像forkball而不是splitter，
這一段討論對於搞清楚這兩種球路的不同蠻有用的，所以剪貼在下面。

8/25/03 New York Times
For Contreras, a Victory; for the Yanks, Vindication
by Tyler Kepner

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Contreras threw fastballs that reached 97 miles an hour, but all
of his strikeouts came on splitters. Or, more precisely, they
came on the pitch that is now called the splitter. "It's an old-
fashioned forkball," said Mel Stottlemyre, the Yankees' pitching
coach.

The forkball is a close cousin of the split-finger fastball, which
became popular in the mid-1980's. Both pitches break late and dive
toward the dirt, but the splitter - the kind Roger Clemens throws -
breaks sharply and is thrown harder. The forkball is thrown with
the index and middle fingers spread wider, and it comes in slower,
with more of a rolling break.

"It's a good one, one of the better ones you'll see," said the
Orioles' Jeff Conine, referring to Contreras's version of the pitch.
"It's more like a forkball. Clemens has a split, like a fastball
that drops off a table. This one, you see the seams, and it almost
moves like a knuckleball."

Gibbons looked baffled with a 1-2 count in the seventh. A left-
handed hitter, he committed to swing early, planting his right foot
and then waiting as the ball hung in the air and seemed to vanish.
He managed to tip it into Jorge Posada's glove for strike three,
then turned to watch the scoreboard replay as he trudged back to
the dugout.

"It was kind of a strange pitch," Gibbons said. "It's one you want
to foul off. It looked like a curveball, and all of a sudden it's
78 or 77 miles an hour. It was almost like an eephus pitch. I
tipped it. It was good enough for me. He definitely had good stuff.
I can see why they think so highly of him."

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基本上forkball跟splitter的差別是forkball球速慢一點，在變化上差不多。
握法上投forkball時投手的食指和中指分的比較開。上面那一段裡提到了
Conine說他感覺昨天Contreras的splitter/forkball甚至有一點knuckleball
的味道，這個我就沒有聽說過了。

我不知道以後大家會叫那個球路forkball還是splitter，昨天看電視轉播時
他們還是叫它splitter，並且一直拿Clemens的splitter來比較。談到從電視
上分辨球路，這個非常有意思。不要太相信你自己的眼睛，因為即使是名人堂
球員如Joe Morgan，很多時候也是看scouting report知道投手有什麼球路，
然後看雷達槍上面顯示的球速來辨別。站在打擊區裡面的打者也許可以靠球
的縫線來判別，我們這些觀眾是看不到的。昨天晚上看ESPN轉播Red Sox vs
M's就聽到Joe Morgan和Jon Miller兩個在那裡耍寶，討論剛剛那個球是什麼
球路，他們就是從球速來看的。

這兩個不算是好播報員，不過還輪不到我來嫌棄他們。Joe Morgan是card-
carrying Red Sox hater，有的是Red Sox球迷來討厭他。XD
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