CN Pitching Performance

Our middle finger is the longest finger on our hand. It typically is the last finger to touch the ball at release.

If you have the middle finger away from the center of the ball and emphasize pressure on the inside of the finger, it’ll prevent you from creating backspin causing the ball the lift and be harder. At release, our ring finger is off the ball and just the inside of the middle finger will be left lightly spinning the ball off the inside of the finger changing the direction of spin to favor side spin. Creating a UFO like spin.

You’ll see often how the middle finger is in the center and lifts the ball. Not what we want with the CH.

Let your fingers slow down the ball!

Our grip avoids our dominant fingers like our index and middle fingers from being in command (like the fastball). When we trust the grip for our Changeup, we tend to see the fingers find a way to the inside of the ball rather than staying behind it and creating backspin and lift. That will create a high velo and flat Changeup.

I like to show guys initially in the grip to shift the middle finger to the inside of the center of the ball. Whether that’s on a lace or not, it’s whatever is comfortable to start.

The ring finger will help get that middle to the inside so we try to shift that finger closer to the center. It is much weaker and will slow the spin and force into the ball down.

The goal here is to tilt the spin axis!