{"id":42989,"date":"2024-03-18T09:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42989"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:03:49","slug":"our-continuing-homage-to-the-knuckleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42989","title":{"rendered":"Our Continuing Homage to the Knuckleball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Another video (below) for our continuing homage to the Knuckleball.   See our earlier post, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42870\">The Best Knuckleball in Fastpitch&#8221;<\/a>.  Spoiler alert:  The list so far includes &#8220;Sisko Sabate, Voldy Terkelsen, and Sean Cleary&#8221;.  Have a nominee? Drop it in to the comments section below, or reply at Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They tell me I threw a &#8220;Moonlight Graham&#8221; Knuckleball.   Warming up on the sidelines, it danced all over.  My catcher: &#8220;<em>You should throw that thing in a game<\/em>&#8220;.  So I did.  It floated but didn&#8217;t dance.  It was retrieved from the left field bleachers.  My catcher to me:  &#8220;<em>Maybe you shouldn&#8217;t throw that thing in a game<\/em>&#8220;.   Dubbed the &#8220;Moonlight Graham&#8221; knuckleball, &#8217;cause it disappeared when I crossed over from the sideline to the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">make every team throw at least one knuckleball per game<br><br>imagine what we&#39;d see <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D8qrvRodSv\">https:\/\/t.co\/D8qrvRodSv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Codify (@CodifyBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodifyBaseball\/status\/1769732176910659765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Another video (below) for our continuing homage to the Knuckleball. See our earlier post, &#8220;The Best Knuckleball in Fastpitch&#8221;. Spoiler alert: The list so far includes &#8220;Sisko Sabate, Voldy Terkelsen, and Sean Cleary&#8221;. Have a nominee? Drop it in to the comments section below, or reply at Twitter. They tell me I threw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured","7":"category-general","8":"category-players","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42990,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42989\/revisions\/42990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}