Forkball Grip: How To Grip A Forkball

The forkball grip, also known as a splitter grip or split-finger fastball grip, is an interesting pitch. You grip a forkball by jamming the ball between your first two fingers as hard as you can and deliver it with the same action as a fastball, with the wrist coming straight over from 12 to 6 o'clock. The ball travels with a lot of velocity, but with a tumbling kind of rotation. The rotation slows down as the ball approaches the plate, and if delivered correctly, the bottom kind of falls out of it.