This Slo-Mo View of Padres Pitcher’s Perfect Knuckleball is So Beautiful
There’s nothing like watching a good knuckleball floating through the air on a warm summer night. With all the triple-digit heaters being thrown these days, there’s just something beautiful about a knuckleball barely spinning as it heads to home plate.
And you know what? Thanks to San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Waldron we can all sit back and experience just that thanks to this beautiful pitch he threw in Thursday night’s loss at home to the San Francisco Giants.
Waldron struck out Giants second baseman Thairo Estrada with a 76-mph knuckleball, and the slo-mo highlight of it so darn good.
Check this out:
Matt Waldron, Knuckleball. ????????
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 1, 2023
272 RPMs pic.twitter.com/u7LZdKLXqF
Nasty.
This one was also pretty sweet:
Matt Waldron, 75mph Knuckleball with only 112 RPMs. pic.twitter.com/hH4Il3vpnn
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 1, 2023
The world needs more knuckleballs!