Baseball Throw: Gripping The Baseball - Video Transcript
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Coach Mike Battista: What we're going to talk about now is the basic four-seam grip in baseball. This grip is going to be used by all different positions. What we do to find the grip is first look for the letter “C.” After we do that, we're going to apply our fingers – either two or three fingers depending on the size of our hand – directly on the ball. We're also going to look for the different notches of our fingers and put that on the top seam.
This grip is going to give us better direction towards our target, and also it's going to be straighter and we can throw it farther. A good way to find this grip is to flip the ball in the air, catch it, try to find the grip. Flip it in the air, catch it and try to find the grip.
