California Change-up

[bkbjones]

Originally Posted by BretMan

the "Chinese Change-Up"

Did the Chinese change-Up start any Chinese Fire Drills?

We used to play Chinese Poker, Chinese Dominoes and a few other games, We "invented" Chinese Uno at our house. A truly great game...basically backwards Uno. If you drew the dreaded Draw four, everyone except you had to draw four...same thing for draw two. If you drew Reverse, you got to choose the player who played next, and it went in the reverse direction from there. After some debate we decided you could not call yourself as the next player to play upon drawing a reverse card.

Lotsa things used to be the Chinese whatever, until we all had PC forced on us. Here in the PC capitol of the world, we don't even have "Chinatown" any more. It is the "International District." Of course, now thinking about it, there are probly more Vietnamese and Hmong over there than Chinese. BUT...the Chinese have been up here since the late 1800s, and it will no doubt still be referred to as Chinatown, even if not officially, long after I am gone.

Can you tell I am bored? Hurry up umpire training...

[JefferMC]

Around here, we normally call it the "slip pitch." I know of a few girls who throw it. A few coaches will teach it, but won't admit it in public afterwards.

And I've personally heard an umpire compliment a pitcher who threw this pitch in a game on her "great change up." Of course, that's what I've come to expect out of a lot of WFC umpires.

I've found that just the fact that the pitcher throws it once, even if the umpire calls an IP on it, some batters are hung up watching for it for the rest of that game.

[Scooby]

Deception within the rules is ok, deception that is prohibited by the rules is not.

[scottk_61]

It has been a long time since I have seen this type of pitching motion but I have seen it and all three umps on the field called it on the second and subsequant pitches.
Yes, we all definately missed it the first time or rather it caught us off guard.