Best Third Base Pickoff Move for Baseball Pitchers: Part 1

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Discover an off rubber pitching technique that flirts with balk but is still legal and can help you fake out and pickoff a runner on third base, in this free baseball video lesson for pitchers.

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Best Third Base Pickoff Move for Baseball Pitchers: Part 1
Hi! My name is Mike Lumley. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to teach you pitching. The last one, this is the one that kind of flirts on a bock move. Definitely is a lefty. If you haven't been called on a bock, you're not doing it right. What we're looking at here is we're going to get ourselves into as close to the deception as we can get. My first part is my upper body, or my body momentum. What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to carry myself on a bit of a 45. As I lift and I'm coming forward, I'm going to actually get myself in a bit of a 45. When the plate umpire sees this, and usually a base umpire is usually in this direction, will never notice my direction. The only person that doesn't see it correctly is anybody that's in direct line with where I'm throwing, so 3rd base coach, 3rd base, or on the opposite side, 1st base, 1st base coach. At times when you only have a man at 1st, if you have a 2 man system, the 1st base umpire is sitting over here calling the B-position. First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to get direction, so close to that 45. My toe is going to be pointed to 3rd. To show perception on both sides that yes, I'm actually coming this way. The other part of this is keeping my shoulders somewhat square. What I'm saying by that is my shoulders and my hands are going to come this way and I'm going to throw back. Most pitchers give things away by turning and pointing their shoulder right at where they're going. There's a lot of things in here. Direction, separation, throw, and walk. We definitely need a little bit of that momentum. We did this from a dead stop, so it's a little tougher.

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Expert: Mike Lumley, President & head instructor of Lumley School of Baseball, has played professional baseball and has 25 years of coaching experience. Read More