The Eephus pitch is one of baseball’s most peculiar pitches. It’s high-arcing, slow lob has perplex batters for decades. Where did it start? In this short segment for Backstory, Larry Potash gives us ...

Lee, as any self-respecting Sox lifer knows, specialized during his pro years in the novelty pitch that gives the film its name — “a type of curveball,” explains one benchwarmer (who looks not a ...

The title Eephus (now streaming on Mubi) isn’t just a nonsense word – it’s a baseball reference obscure enough to zing, rather ironically, right by casual fans like a 90 mph fastball. Dating back ...

It's set in a small New England town in the '90s. The film takes place over the course of one day. Two rec league baseball teams meet up to play a game in a place called Soldier's Field. This field ...

A small-town baseball game stretches on into the night in Carson Lund's adorably existential, off-kilter take on the sports movie. Their future, it should also be pointed out, is our past: Lund sets ...

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When Cincinnati Reds catcher Jose Trevino recorded the slowest pitch of the 2025 MLB season July 8 against the Miami Marlins, he was trying to break the record of a pitch he received in 2021, ...

Clayton Kershaw just trolled the Giants with an eephus pitch at 46 mph Posted: March 12, 2026 | Last updated: March 12, 2026 Enjoy Clayton Kershaw Just Trolled The Giants With an Eephus Pitch…at 46 ...

Call her an actor-singer-pitcher. Once again proving there's not much she can't do, Jennifer Hudson added a perfect first pitch ahead of the Kansas City Royals game on Tuesday to a résumé that already ...

The Gist: Fade in: The dew evaporates on Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts, a real-life field in a real-life town, pop. 9,000 or so. The world’s weariest radio DJ reads the news, including a ...