PostSportsPlus: The sideways story of the 'sweeper,' the pitch that’s suddenly everywhere you look
To some within the Yankees, it was just a tweaked slider. Some viewed it as a sweeping slider. At one point, the organization dubbed it a “whirly,” acknowledging it was a new offering altogether.
Last season, the Yankees’ Clay Holmes threw two different forms of breaking pitches, one with more horizontal movement and one with more depth . He has not changed his arsenal this year, but according to the pitch logs, he now has a new offering. Imagine the plunge of a curveball, but executed horizontally rather than vertically. A sweeper is a breaking pitch that darts sideways more than a typical slider and seems — thanks to the ball’s seams, but more on that later — to rise simply because it does not fall very much. The very best sweepers, such as Shohei Ohtani’s, can travel 20 inches from right to left for a right-handed pitcher.
Cleveland wasn’t alone, though. The forward-thinking Dodgers and Astros also discovered and taught the revelation. Others had happened upon the pitch independently, including longtime reliever Adam Ottavino, a native of Brooklyn who grew up watching David Cone, Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez and Jeff Nelson frustrate hitters with knee-buckling breaking balls.
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