Twins’ Prospect Cory Lewis’s Slow-Motioned Knuckleball Pitch Is Going Viral

Cory Lewis, a pitcher prospect for the Twins, was caught on camera delivering his signature knuckleball, and pictures of the pitch were shared on social media.

Twins’ Prospect Cory Lewis’s Slow Motioned Knuckleball Pitch Is Going Viral

The slow-motion recording of Lewis’s knuckleball, which was made public by baseball agent Ethan Chapman, is a masterpiece. The pitch footage appears to be a screenshot that might be shown on a wall at a nearby art museum or something that could be used to a baseball movie scene.

To put it another way, nothing is more entertaining THAN a slow-motion film of a knuckleball, which isn’t meant to rotate much at all. to suddenly move and dart.

This is Cory Lewis’ slow-motion knuckleball, a prospect for the Minnesota Twins. A black-and-white slow-motion film that gives the ball the appearance of floating is amazing. We would have like to see it conclude with a direct hit on the catcher’s glove in the strike zone, but that’s alright.

The knuckleball gained popularity in the early 1900s thanks to pitchers like Toad Ramsey and Eddie Cicotte, who had a reputation for being able to confound opponents who had trouble predicting where the notoriously unpredictable pitch would end up by the time it reached the plate. There isn’t really a consensus as to who invented the knuckleball, but it started to gain popularity at that time.

The fact that a pitcher can only do so much to predict a knuckleball’s trajectory has definitely contributed to the pitch’s relative rarity in Major League Baseball.

Lewis, who excelled on the mound at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was selected in the ninth round. Lewis has already been moved up from Single-A to High-A baseball in 2023, which is his first professional season.

The Twins took the 22-year-old in the ninth round of the 2022 MLB Draft, and he is now perfecting his craft as a member of Minnesota’s “High-A” club, the Cedar Rapids Kernels.

Thanks in large part to his deadly knuckleball, Lewis has produced an 8-4 record with a 2.76 ERA and 109 strikeouts over 91 and 1/3 innings thrown across both levels.

While players at that level typically struggle to garner much notice, Lewis stands out thanks to a slow-motion video that showed his nearly stationary knuckleball moving toward an oncoming catcher.

 

 

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