It's not just the Kershaw slider that vexes him, either. "I've been trying to throw a sweeper for three years," Skubal said, "but I can't get the ball to sweep." Stories like these, of the pitches ...

The sweeper is the hottest pitch in baseball … and Shohei Ohtani is the face of it. As more and more MLB pitchers embrace the big-breaking slider variant -- sweepers, unlike traditional, tighter ...