Forkball pitchers are a rare breed, perhaps even rarer than the elusive knuckleballer. The forkball is a pitch that isn’t used much anymore in the major leagues, though its cousin, the split-finger ...

Kodai Senga, New York Mets' new acquisition's ghost forkball is making quite the buzz as the Japanese pitcher's showcase pitch made a brilliant debut in the MLB. The Mets won their game against the ...

NEW YORK – The talk around the Big Apple the past two nights when it comes to baseball has been about the Nationals’ young starting pitchers. And rightfully so. Josiah Gray (nine strikeouts over six ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Kodai Senga’s focus is getting to the regular season in optimum health. With that in mind, the Mets right-hander refrained Wednesday from throwing his signature forkball, a second ...

Wednesday night, I saw something I’d never seen before. Wednesday night, I saw an original forkball. The Angels were losing to the Royals in the ninth, and Mike Scioscia summoned 28-year-old rookie ...

CONCORD — Because he was once a skinny teenager with big glasses and a ho-hum fastball, Fred Breining loves talking to youngsters with major league dreams. Breining somehow carved out a Giants career ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Kodai Senga doesn’t quite know who started calling his forkball a “ghost fork” but he knows he heard the term about a decade ago. His signature pitch isn’t technically a splitter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. Let’s go pitch by pitch through the arsenals of all starting ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (27) is famous for throwing the fastest forkball in the world. He made headlines on April 2, 2022, when he threw a 151 km/h forkball against ...

WASHINGTON, DC. – Roki Sasaki has lost his signature pitch. He’s lost his forkball. The role that luck played in his grotesque pitching line in the Dodgers’ 8-6 victory over the Washington Nationals ...

You've read this before. It wasn't even that long ago. Three weeks ago, BP's own Dan Rozenson wrote about Tyler Clippard and his "split-finger fastball." The quotation marks are because you could ...