An Eephus pitch

Eephus is another one of those great baseball words I was talking about last week. It's a junk pitch, thrown with very low velocity. A good one can catch a batter off-guard with its off-speed. While a normal pitch in baseball comes in between 70-95 mph, an eephus has a high arc and came come in at less than 50 mph.

Last weekend, Barry Zito of the San Francisco Giants had a pitch get away from him against the San Diego Padres, which very much resembled an eephus. It didn't fool anyone!