Tag Archives: the lollipop pitch

It’s fun when you start learning things from an eight-year-old. Mr. B. is so infatuated with baseball that he’s constantly rattling off player and team statistics. So many that sometimes I’m tempted to believe he’s making them up. So when he described a Ranger reliever in Monday’s 9-5 Ranger win over the Yankees throwing a lollipop pitch, I couldn’t quite believe it. Never heard of it. He said it was like a curve ball. Sure enough. Also this: Hall of Fame reliever Bruce Sutter’s split-fingered fastball "came in high, looking like a lollipop, then dropped straight down."