Ottavino and Holland: Two effective late-game relievers with two very different “out” pitches. Yet both call their coldhearted strikeout pitch a slider. What gives?

It's been nearly a decade since any pitcher threw a slider as fast as Jacob Misiorowski's, yet that isn't his favorite ...

TAMPA — There’s a new slider sweeping Yankeetown. It’s often thrown with a two-seam grip, works the horizontal plane more than a typical slider does, and is developed to play off of true two ...

Matt Manning, for example, now has two different sliders in his toolbox — a firmer bullet slider and a sweepier one. “I don’t do it a ton,” Casey Mize said.

Beginning with Season 3, Sliders spent more time on action-oriented episodes meant to draw in new viewers, instead of the ...

“Having three different fastballs is a game changer,” Gray agreed. “With my four-seam and my sweeper, it was more than 15 inches of separation, which is easier for them to differentiate.

As well as aiming for fun, the Madden developers aim to make each game as realistic as possible to deliver that authentic football experience to their players, and Madden 25 is no different.

Red Sox prospect Hayden Mullins elevates his four-seam fastball and pairs it with two different sliders to get a high swing-and-miss rate. He struck out 30.3% of the batters he faced in 2024.