Best Third Base Pickoff Move for Baseball Pitchers: Part 2

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Fake out and pickoff a runner on third base during a baseball game by using an effective and deceptive pickoff move that flirts with balk but is still legal. Learn how in this free baseball video lesson for pitchers.

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Best Third Base Pickoff Move for Baseball Pitchers: Part 2
Hi! My name is Mike Lumley. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to teach you pitching. We'll try to go through it gradually and pick up the speed as we go. Direction, throw, and walk. The walking is very important because usually the first person that calls bock is the apposing team's coach. If you're stuck out here and the apposing team coach goes bock and the umpire looks, you're dead to rights, so really have to make sure that at the end we're walking towards our target. A little quicker. A little harder on the arm to do this, and obviously, somebody with a little bit more arm strength has no problem making this throw. What will happen is the guys that just can't quite make that throw will end up turning their shoulders toward their target just so that they can get themselves coiled up and be able to use their upper body more. Go through this a little quicker again. A good thing to look at is really get yourself on video to show the difference between, especially a left-hander. See if you can see the difference between you going to the plate, coming here, or you coming to the base. That distinction has got to be very, very tight. Anything that you can take a video camera is a great thing. If you can take that video camera and if you're a left-hander, take it to first base, get in line, and try to see what the 1st base runner is going to see. For me a right-hander, you've got to see exactly what the 3rd base runner is going to see. You really shouldn't see a whole lot of distinction between you going home and you going to 3rd base or 1st base.

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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