In baseball , sidearm is a motion for throwing a ball along a low, approximately horizontal plane rather than a high, mostly vertical plane ( overhand ).
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58-463: A side-arm delivery Vehicles [ edit ] Bell Sidewinder , a clone of the Phantom X1 aircraft Dodge Sidewinder , a 1997 concept car Kia Sidewinder , a 2006 concept car Smyth Sidewinder , a two-seat experimental aircraft developed in 1969 Shay_locomotive , A geared steam locomotive with a driveshaft connecting the side mounted cylinders with gears mounted to the end of
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116-440: A AAA baseball team Sidewinder, a freestyle skateboarding trick Sidewinder, a baseball pitcher who throws using a side-arm delivery Vehicles [ edit ] Bell Sidewinder , a clone of the Phantom X1 aircraft Dodge Sidewinder , a 1997 concept car Kia Sidewinder , a 2006 concept car Smyth Sidewinder , a two-seat experimental aircraft developed in 1969 Shay_locomotive , A geared steam locomotive with
145-408: A band from Australia Sidewinders , a barbershop quartet The Sidewinders , an Arizona rock band Sidewinder (EP) , a 1996 EP by Download The Sidewinder , a 1964 album by Lee Morgan "The Sidewinder" (composition) , a composition by Lee Morgan Sidewinder a 2017 EP by Stand Atlantic Sidewinder , an electronic music composition and album by Morton Subotnick "Sidewinder",
174-528: A character in the Kill Bill films Sidewinder, a machine in the Thunderbirds TV series The nickname of Patience Barton in the 1969 film Support Your Local Gunfighter Music [ edit ] Sidewinder (band) , a band from Australia Sidewinders , a barbershop quartet The Sidewinders , an Arizona rock band Sidewinder (EP) , a 1996 EP by Download The Sidewinder ,
203-567: A driveshaft connecting the side mounted cylinders with gears mounted to the end of the drive axles was often referred to as a sidewinder Video games [ edit ] Sidewinder (Mastertronic video game) , a 1988 video game for the Amiga Sidewinder (video game) or Mission Cobra , a 1989 action arcade game for NES Other uses [ edit ] AIM-9 Sidewinder , an air-to-air missile A mini-revolver manufactured by North American Arms Sidewinder (slot car) ,
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261-419: A natural delivery, and those who do are often discouraged by coaches who know little about sidearm mechanics, and who believe that overhand pitching affords greater velocity. This is generally true, since overhand pitching provides better mechanical leverage with which the body can use to accelerate the ball. But what the sidearm pitcher loses in velocity, they gain in ball movement and unusual release point. In
290-514: A roller coaster in Hershey, Pennsylvania Sidewinder, a ride at Sandcastle Waterworld in Blackpool, England Computing [ edit ] Microsoft SideWinder , a family of digital game controllers Sidewinder, firewall software from Secure Computing (now McAfee) Fiction [ edit ] Sidewinder (character) , a Marvel supervillain Budd ( Kill Bill ) or Sidewinder,
319-407: A sidearm delivery to fool a batter for a strikeout. It is most common to hear that sidearm pitching places less stress on the elbow and shoulder, thus reducing a pitcher's risk of injury. It is also not uncommon to hear the opposite. Analyses of pitchers' deliveries shows that arms slots are a function of shoulder tilt, not elbow angle, and this suggests that no one arm slot poses a greater threat to
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#1732773145758348-567: A song by Avenged Sevenfold from City of Evil "Sidewinder", a song by Catfish and the Bottlemen from The Balcony "Sidewinder", a song by The Cynic Project "Sidewinder", a song by Lard from Pure Chewing Satisfaction "Sidewinder", a song by Photek from Form & Function Vol. 2 "Sidewinder", a song by Stand Atlantic from Sidewinder EP Sports [ edit ] Sidewinders (X-League) , an American football team in Japan Tucson Sidewinders ,
377-422: A song by Lard from Pure Chewing Satisfaction "Sidewinder", a song by Photek from Form & Function Vol. 2 "Sidewinder", a song by Stand Atlantic from Sidewinder EP Sports [ edit ] Sidewinders (X-League) , an American football team in Japan Tucson Sidewinders , a AAA baseball team Sidewinder, a freestyle skateboarding trick Sidewinder, a baseball pitcher who throws using
406-404: A type of model car with a transverse motor Operation Sidewinder (disambiguation) See also [ edit ] " The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite ", a song by R.E.M. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sidewinder . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
435-404: A type of model car with a transverse motor Operation Sidewinder (disambiguation) See also [ edit ] " The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite ", a song by R.E.M. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sidewinder . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
464-576: A venomous pit viper found in northern Africa and parts of the Middle East Crotalus cerastes or sidewinder rattlesnake, a venomous pit viper species found in the southwestern United States Amusement park rides [ edit ] Sidewinder (roller coaster element) , an inversion involving a half-loop followed by a half-corkscrew Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens) , a roller coaster in Denver, Colorado Sidewinder (Hersheypark) ,
493-497: A venomous pit viper species found in the southwestern United States Amusement park rides [ edit ] Sidewinder (roller coaster element) , an inversion involving a half-loop followed by a half-corkscrew Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens) , a roller coaster in Denver, Colorado Sidewinder (Hersheypark) , a roller coaster in Hershey, Pennsylvania Sidewinder, a ride at Sandcastle Waterworld in Blackpool, England Computing [ edit ] Microsoft SideWinder ,
522-548: Is caused by the Magnus effect , which makes the ball move in the direction of its rotation. Batters learn these spins and their likely trajectories, but predominantly from high-axis pitchers whose pitches rotate around a mostly horizontal axis. Sidearm pitches rotate similarly, but around an approximately vertical axis. This causes common pitches to behave very uncommonly. For example, the four-seam fastball , when thrown by overhand power pitchers, seems to "hop", or rise on its way to
551-419: The plate . This is because the ball is rotating backwards, lowering the air pressure above the ball. The same pitch thrown by the sidearm pitcher causes a horizontal rotation, and consequent sideways movement. Sidearm pitchers whose deliveries are below the horizontal throw a fastball that rotates nearly forward, so the ball will sink rather than rise. Sidewinders' unusual release points make it difficult for
580-407: The 1870s, the release point of pitches had reached the pitcher's waist level. As the game continued to evolve into the 20th century, pitchers' release points continued to rise to present day levels, although some adherents continued to use the sidearm delivery. The various spins pitchers commonly employ—fastballs, curveballs, sliders, cutters—cause the ball to diverge from a "normal" trajectory. This
609-464: The ball in the infield , because many throws must be made hurriedly from the glove after fielding ground balls. An infielder's quickest throw to the bases is often from just above ground level, necessitating a horizontal release of the ball. Sidearm pitchers , also known as sidewinders , are uncommon at all levels of baseball except in Japan , where sidearm pitchers are widely popular. Few find sidearm
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#1732773145758638-438: The batter to "see" the ball because hitters are so accustomed to seeing the release from near the pitcher's head. Further, because the ball is released from alongside the rubber (and some sidearm pitchers step a little toward their pitching arm side when they deliver the ball) it can appear to a same-side batter that the ball has been thrown at him. These characteristics have typecast today's sidearm pitchers as relievers, entering
667-414: The batter, in much the same way that a basketball referee offers up a jump ball to begin play. As the game progressed towards professionalism and became more serious, pitchers began to attempt to prevent the batter from hitting the ball by throwing faster pitches. The rules governing the delivery of pitches proved to be hard to enforce, and pitchers continued to stretch the boundaries of the rules until by
696-416: The drive axles was often referred to as a sidewinder Video games [ edit ] Sidewinder (Mastertronic video game) , a 1988 video game for the Amiga Sidewinder (video game) or Mission Cobra , a 1989 action arcade game for NES Other uses [ edit ] AIM-9 Sidewinder , an air-to-air missile A mini-revolver manufactured by North American Arms Sidewinder (slot car) ,
725-429: The free dictionary. Sidewinder may refer to: Snakes [ edit ] Sidewinding , a form of locomotion used by some snakes Bitis peringueyi or sidewinding adder, a venomous adder species found in Namibia and southern Angola Cerastes cerastes or Saharan horned viper, a venomous pit viper found in northern Africa and parts of the Middle East Crotalus cerastes or sidewinder rattlesnake,
754-758: The game in the late innings as a "different look" from overhand pitchers. Though this is an effective strategy, some of the greatest starting pitchers in baseball history, notably Walter Johnson , Satchel Paige , Don Drysdale , Carl Mays , Dizzy Dean , and Randy Johnson , threw the ball sidearm. Other prominent major leaguer sidewinders include, or have included, Madison Bumgarner , Chris Sale , Jimmy Herget , Scott Feldman , Pat Neshek , Scott Sauerbeck , Dennis Eckersley , Mark Eichhorn , Javier López , Jake Peavy , Vinnie Pestano , Ted Abernathy , Gene Garber , Dave Baldwin , Bob Locker , and Kent Tekulve . Still others such as Jered Weaver , Bronson Arroyo , David Cone , and Tom Henke would sometimes "drop down" to
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841-487: The middle of the nineteenth century, the game of baseball began to evolve from a sport played by amateurs for recreation into a more serious game played by professionals . One of the most dramatic changes was the transition of the pitcher's delivery from an underhand motion to an overhanded throw. Before the American Civil War , the pitcher's role was to initiate the action by offering an underhanded throw to
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