At 2:52PM, the broadcast team finally admitted the pitcher was throwing a "gyro spin,"
Bulletspin finally recognized
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bring on the gyro
For anyone who hasn't run across it 'gyro' is the term used in baseball for what we call bullet spin.
Huh. Never heard that before. Oh well. I stopped watching baseball after a few years of having fastpitch DDs. I needed to start bringing a pillow to baseball games.
I think bullet spin is a much better term. When I saw gyro in an article on seam shifted wakes I was like, what are they talking about?
Obviously gyro made me think of food ??
On bored with calling bullet spin is better!
Simply because it's more common understanding for description.
Now that there is more understanding of the different reasons a spinning ball may move. Hopefully people will be okay recognizing bullet spin can be effective.
Talking about description throwing this out here... for description purpose,
People stop being so ??frenzied about the word screwball. the ball can actually spin the direction of a screw regardless if there's a discussion about If It Moves. Screw is still a correct description word. So is there a screwball?! yes there is a pitch that spins the direction of a screw.
On bored with calling bullet spin is better!
Simply because it's more common understanding for description.
Now that there is more understanding of the different reasons a spinning ball may move. Hopefully people will be okay recognizing bullet spin can be effective.
Talking about description throwing this out here... for description purpose,
People stop being so ??frenzied about the word screwball. the ball can actually spin the direction of a screw regardless if there's a discussion about If It Moves. Screw is still a correct description word. So is there a screwball?! yes there is a pitch that spins the direction of a screw.
I watched all the games, bullet spin happens on curves, screwballs, change up’s. It’s not limited to Riseballs. Everyone throws 70. They’re not like Cat Osterman who always talked about spin in interviews. She would say if her spins were good, she was good, I see very few breaks happening, if anything they throw pitches that cut with bullet speed.
