Turning a foul ball into a run scoring 'triple', a breakdown

andrew heaney is on the bump he has

turned his career around more on that

after the fun stuff we got nimmo at the

plate a 2-2 count he sends it back where

it came from the old hitting machine

drill put it back in the machine kid

freeman says what are you looking at up

there what you got and he says ah you're

so silly freddy and now he's checking on

him at first checking on looking to

catch her yeah that pitch but i'm gonna

check on him one more time and the bunt

down the line now heaney decides to play

it and throws it away which turns that

into a run scoring triple

nemo's gonna go around third he's gonna

score martay gets to third base if

you're

very new to baseball and you're like

what do you mean well

you see how freddy freeman the first

baseman is putting his hand up right

here like let it go you know

like uh leave it leave it oh [ __ ] okay

you're playing it

that's

because that ball was going to go foul

it

it only matters where the ball is when

the fielder touches it

and he's like oh

maybe that would have went foul

maybe it's all coming back to me now i

didn't have to make the heroic

backhanded toss because that ball was

going to hit the grass usually gets and

go foul usually gets the lip of the

grass gives it a little ramp you know

more that way so it hits there

if that goes untouched maybe it spins

back i think

you take that risk

because this is not really a likely play

and then

in the first inning the mets have a run

don't tell strider this they got lucky

again

a little bit of a misplay by the heen

dog and now they're set up

they have the run they have a runner on

third no outs heeney shook he's going

slider slider fastball force strike to

lindorks back to the slider hits him in

the foot

so now he's on first base but before

lindor goes to first base he goes alonso

he loves that slider right now he loves

that slide right now be ready for the

slider so alonso's in there ready for

the slider gets a fastball he's like

okay regroup

find yourself think about it maybe he'll

come fastball now get ready to hit it

he's gonna put it right there

right there smack it again where's he

gonna put it right there and it's all

mine

one

two

three kaboom swung through it something

i noticed when making this i've never

seen the

digital strike zone actually shift so

this is actually lindor strike zone

alonso's bigger and watch it see that

shift it up right there mid pitch

graphics team just getting it done

lindor okay look at the i'm dancing look

at the

um anyway got the fastball swung right

through it damn

damn okay

right there

right there gets another fastball

another fastball that was the one he

wanted and then he he's sitting slider

with two strikes never got a fastball

never got a slider bad advice

was waiting for it next batter comes up

another big old guy swings at the

fastball

doesn't swing at the fastball it's one

and one swings over the slider and now

frankie lendore is saying let's make

some action i'm going to run the second

martay you go home marte you

martay

you didn't

you didn't go anywhere

they threw

martay didn't know the play was on he

didn't know what was going on lindor

looks at him after getting tagged like

dude

thought we were going to make something

happen buck little upset now hean dog

comes back with a fastball he's one

strike away from getting out of the

inning and he gets it he goes up top

[ __ ] but he's mad at himself now i told

you i was going to talk about heendog

and how his era has just drastically

improved this year and what has made

that happen because i like this stuff

you're going to like it watch this his

pitch percentage over the his years has

changed drastically in 2022 he was

curveball 22 of the time last season

with the change up at 18 and he started

throwing a slider at the very end of

last year when he got traded to the

yankees now he's slider 33 percent of

the time he doesn't throw a curveball

anymore and the chain's up dropped he's

basically a two pitch pitcher this is

his game log at the end of the year last

year when the yankees were trying to get

him to throw what they call a sweeper a

sweeping slider

seam-shifted wake is the science term

and he was trying to but couldn't really

figure it out worked on it over the

off-season and now it's his pitch and

this is the vertical break so the up and

down break some sliders dart down some

just sweep across and stay

lateral

this

is the difference so last year his

curveball and his slider were

were pretty like up and down break they

would drop a lot they would fall off the

table now his slider doesn't have that

much break at all it's kind of flat it's

just left to right movement

and his velo is way up he's throwing

this pitch

not wet not way up sorry he's throwing

it three miles per hour faster but he's

throwing it harder so here's what it

looks like

the angel's pitcher

heaney is throwing a curveball

the dodgers pitcher heaney is throwing a

slider and it's a slight difference but

you can see the numbers with your eyes

if you look at it so there's one ball

that kind of pops up out of his hand

and then comes down that's the curveball

right the new pitch kind of darts out of

his hand

it's the slider

so the one on the left is the curve pops

out of his hand and then comes down the

one on the inside was the slider you

might be wondering that really makes

that big of a difference

why well on its own it doesn't but all

secondary and breaking pitches exist

because they play off the fastball so

this is 2021 how his curveball played

off his fastball the curveball

separates right away they don't tunnel

at all it pops out of his hand look

they're separate right away and hitters

look like that the curveball will just

pop out of his hand

they're not on the same plane so it's

easy for batters to identify if they

could curveball fastball

watch the pitches that we just watched

to rough in this breakdown the slider

and the fastball

they

come out together they don't separate

till there halfway

out of the hand especially you can't

even tell he's throwing two different

pitches here it just looks like one long

blur

so that's called tunneling

and that is why the slider that he has

this year is so much more effective than

his curve last year here's side by side

on the left you have the curveball and

the fastball on the right you have the

slider and the fastball and see on the

left they're already separated

hitters that are really honed in can

already pick it apart now the slider is

still together at this point with the

fastball

now the slider is starting to break off

on the right and the curve ball is way

apart

and that's the difference and that stuff

is really cool i love when guys change

their pitch mix and figure it out so

kudos tahini you made a dumb play but

you're having a phenomenal season

because you put in the work and you use

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good stuff hene dog