The Knuckleball Can Devastate, ... He allowed only one hit, but lasted just one inning. Wright walked two batters and threw a record-tying four passed balls in that time.

"A knuckleball is like trying to hit a butterfly in a typhoon," he explains to Fresh Air's Dave Davies. "It shakes side to side; it may go straight left on one pitch.

For a century of baseball, give or take, the conventional wisdom has been that knuckleballs are hard to hit because they flutter, wobble or zigzag on their way to the plate. But a new study ...

NEW YORK — To hit a knuckleball well is to learn the art of swatting at drunken butterflies. Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has mastered the craft. Since 2003, according to data from the ...

Knuckleball: Gareth Bale strikes a free-kick for Wales against Belgium (Image: Livepic) "You want to run up and hit it as flat as you can, with a bit of top spin to get it up and over the wall ...

In the history of sports, few plays have been as tricky to pull off as the knuckleball. Its erratic and unpredictable movement, however, isn't just hard to hit and catch—scientists have long ...

In an era where pitchers throw harder than ever, and hitters are trained to react accordingly, the demand for a knuckleball pitcher could be rising in MLB. Search query. Search. News.

R. A. Dickey is one of the hottest topics in Major League Baseball right now. This right-handed Mets pitcher’s two most recent outings have been one-hitters, he has a league-leading 11 1 win ...