It is commonly thrown by right-handed Japanese pitchers such as Hiroki Kuroda, Noboru Akiyama, Kenjiro Kawasaki, Daisuke Matsuzaka,[1] Yu Darvish[2] and Masumi Kuwata.
The pitch is mainly designed to break down and in on right-handed batters, to prevent them from making solid contact with the ball.
The two-seam fastball, the sinker, and the screwball, in differing degrees, move down and in towards a right-handed batter when thrown, or in the opposite manner of a curveball and a slider.
This is the type of pitch that Tom Selleck's character is continually unable to hit, even though he is a left-handed batter.
It was a term used from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century and it was called as a curve or a variant thereof because the sphere moved "in a certain direction" ("roughly").Many Japanese pitchers utilize the pitching style of the shot due to the varying results of the ball twisting or sinking in flight.
Aoyama Noboru stated, "In Japan's history of baseball, both curves and shoots were top notches is about Takehiko Bessho."
This requires a shift in the release point and the rotation become loose, the lateral change is also small, and the control is often lost.
When a straight ball intended to be thrown aimed on a diagonal (crossfire) shoot rotates, it heads towards the center of the strike zone, so it may be easy to hit.