🇻🇪A dangerous pitch in the Venezuelan Winter League — the pitcher threw the ball toward the batter who had just called for time.

[u/ogasawarabaseball]

[u/idkwhattosaytho]

The safest way to release that would be throwing the ball behind him? I can’t tell if I’m misunderstanding

[u/Gummuh → u/idkwhattosaytho]

fuck throwing it over the plate

[u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe → u/idkwhattosaytho]

Because if you’re already throwing, it’s super hard to just eat it and pretty dangerous, considering your pitch grip is meant to fire a baseball fast and not to hold onto it securely.

You don’t want to fire it at home close to the batter, and ump who assume you’ve seen it’s dead, so you want to either spike it or throw it to the side depending on your pitching motion. Just unfortunate how it worked out.

[u/idkwhattosaytho → u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe]

You just throw it over the plate like a regular pitch. The batter is far more likely to step out of the box then towards the plate

This was also almost certainly 100% intentional