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Change Up By Michele Smith
Then, of course, there is the changeup, or an off-speed pitch. You want to look explosive, driving off the mound, and then, you know, hopefully, the speed of the pitch is going to be about 25% slower than your hardest pitch.
You can throw a changeup pitch with a lot of different grips. I can throw it out of my riseball grip so that people can't pick it. Because a lot of times they'll try to pick your grips. If they see a finger tuck, they'll think that's a rise. Well, if I can throw my changeup out of that same grip, they don't know if it's my rise or my changeup.
What I like to do is hold it deeper in the palm of my hand, tuck a finger so it looks like my riseball, and put all my fingers on the ball just like this.

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