It's a quality pitch. I had a hard time catching it, and that's a good sign. When a catcher struggles trying to hold on to the knuckleball, that's what you want. That's tells you it's a good pitch.
It's a quality pitch. I had a hard time catching it, and that's a good sign. When a catcher struggles trying to hold on to the knuckleball, that's what you want. That's tells you it's a good pitch.
The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
He's done a good job keeping the ball in the zone. He has had short, quick innings. He throws that knuckleball, and then he throws an 83-mph fastball and jams good hitters. He's got some weapons.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
I heard the dry air was brutal for a knuckleball. People told me that I was going to have trouble making the ball move.
With every pitcher, if you call a pitch you know where he's going to miss if it's not right so you prepare for it. With Wake, I don't think you have that luxury. If he throws a knuckleball, you just don't know where it's going to go.
I could barely touch his knuckleball all night, but got lucky enough a couple times.
He's always tough. It seems like his knuckleball gets tougher every time we face him.
He showed the confidence and the technique. I used to shoot a knuckleball. Used to go in, but it was a knuckleball. He showed me the proper technique, the proper rotation on it.
Obviously, he didn't have a knuckleball like Wake has. This is the best that we've seen in this era and it's one of those things that you really can't prepare for. You try to talk to as many people who have caught him and see if they've done anything that has helped them.
I think so, ... Wakefield, man, he's been fooling people every time he goes out there. He's just tough. That knuckleball, even on TV, it seemed like it was moving a lot. That's what we need from Wake.
I don't think I've ever been so nervous in a game. Even in warm-ups, the first time I saw the knuckleball I dropped a couple. I thought, 'Oh, oh. Here we go.
Wakefield was tough. You're not supposed to throw as good a knuckleball with the wind, but he did it tonight. We just couldn't get enough going.
Right now, we have to throw more fastballs and changeups on the verge of a walk, and that's not where we want to be. We want to be where, if we're behind in the count, we have the confidence to throw the knuckleball for a strike and not have to give in.
Probably the best knuckleball I threw all day. It got away from Josh. It's the nature of the beast sometimes. But I thought Josh did a great job back there.
That was a gift, no doubt about it, ... As good as his knuckleball was today, that was definitely a gift.
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