07/08/2026
The answer is... curveball! 🥎
There were a lot of different guesses—and that's exactly why I wanted to share this clip.
Learning to recognize spin is a skill. It's something pitchers and catchers need to be taught and practice over time.
When pitchers learn to see the difference between sideways spin, backward spin, forward spin, and gyro spin, they start to understand why the ball moves the way it does. And when catchers learn to recognize spin, they become better communicators, receivers and even game callers!
One of my favorite ways to teach spin is by using different training tools that make it easier to both see the spin and feel what your fingers should be doing to create it. Once pitchers understand what the correct spin looks and feels like, it becomes much easier to transfer that feeling to a softball.
It's one of the many skills we'll be working on during the Summer Development Program... will you be joining us?! I hope so! 🤞💕