SLIDER

In baseball, a 'slider' is a pitch halfway between a curveball and a fastball. When pitched, the slider breaks laterally and down, with more speed than a curve ball but less speed than a fastball. The break on the pitch is shorter than that of a curveball. The release technique of a slider is between a curve ball and a fastball. The slider is similar to the cutter, a pitch which is thrown as a fastball, but differs in the sense that a slider tends to be more of a breaking ball.
One of the most notable Sliders is one used by Francisco Rodríguez( K-rod ) which comes in looking like a strike and then breaks out of the strike zone. ^[1]

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History

The innovator of the slider is debated, but some source Charles Albert Bender as the first to use the slider, then called a "nickel curve" in the 1910's.^[2] Bender used his slider to help him achieve a no-hitter and win 212 games in his career.^[3] Bender was the first pitcher to win six World Series.²

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