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 ...

Cruz already threw a slider before joining the Yankees, but already, the one he’s throwing in pinstripes is exhibiting sweepy-er characteristics akin to the sweeper that’s propagated across ...

This now gives him sliders that he can throw to batters of each handedness, since he only used the sweeper to righties 5.2% of the time in this first game. It could also create some added ...