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Pirates Pitcher Broke the Brains of Many MLB Fans With This Ridiculous ‘Unicorn’ Pitch

The ball isn’t supposed to move like this.

Andy Nesbitt

Pirates Pitcher Broke the Brains of Many MLB Fans With This Ridiculous ‘Unicorn’ Pitch
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Pirates pitcher Dauri Moreta has been throwing one of the coolest pitches in baseball this season and even he doesn’t know how he does it or what it should be called.

He threw one of those beauties for a called third strike against the Padres on Tuesday and it left baseball fans wondering what they had just seen. 

Here’s how he described the pitch earlier this year to TribLive.com: 

“They say, ‘How do you throw that slider?’ I say, ‘I don’t know. I just throw it. [Then] they say, ‘That’s not a slider. We need to find a new name for that pitch. I grip it like a normal slider and throw it like a normal slider. I don’t know why my slider moves like that. It’s something I can’t answer right now.”

Here’s what it looked like the other night: 

Ridiculous. 

MLB fans were in awe:

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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