Category: Pitching
Type: Tip
Equipment: baseball
Venue: Indoor & Outdoor
2-SEAM FASTBALL
2 Seam Rotated Side View Front Rotated and Normal Side View
Two-Seam Fastball
The two-seam fastball is a pitch designed to have more movement that a four-seam fastball. In my opinion, the two-seam fastball is a pitch to be used while you are ahead in the count, setting up an off-speed pitch or looking to get a strike out. I will try to explain how to throw this pitch but look for the picture to get a detailed view of what I am trying to relay.
Grab a baseball and find the area on it where the seams are the closest together. Rotate the baseball so that those seams are perpendicular to your body. Place your index and middle fingers on each of those seams respectively. Each of your fingers should be touching the seam from the pads or tips to almost the ball of each finger. Your thumb should rest underneath the ball in the middle of those two fingers.
What I have my pitchers do now is rotate the baseball directly towards their palm so that the thumb will find the apex of the horseshoe part of the seam. The thumb needs to rest on that seam from the side to the middle of its pad.
You are now ready to throw a two-seam fastball. This ball will tend to move for the pitcher a little bit depending on velocity, arm slot angle and pressure points of the fingers. This pitch also ties in directly to throwing a cut fastball, which I have explained in another article.
Submitted by: CoachB
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