VIDEO: Astros Stud Reliever Ryan Pressly's Curveball Has Impossible Amount of Movement
By Adam Weinrib
No, this isn't from a recent game. But yes, you should ABSOLUTELY still watch it. Because whatever this is, whatever we're looking at...this is not a curveball from this planet. Ryan Pressly has been nearly untouchable since coming to Houston in a deadline deal in the summer of 2018, but it's this pitch that doesn't even end up in the zone that we're all focusing on this Friday. Just. Look. At. This. Thing.
This ended up being a ball, but just look at the break Ryan Pressly gets on this monster curveball. He's unhittable. pic.twitter.com/zHPw6ytf7m
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) May 17, 2019
And you wonder why modern K rates are up on previous generations. Baseballs do witchcraft now. I don't make the rules.
Since arriving in Houston, Pressly has only allowed two earned runs in 42 appearances, none of them coming this season (he has 19 straight scoreless frames in the books thus far in 2019).
Ryan Pressly, Wicked 83mph Curveball. ? pic.twitter.com/bQVOyTD6Hm
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 16, 2019
And seeing as his pitches dip, dive, duck, and dodge, all within a 60-foot, six-inch pathway, we can understand why. Twins, your 'pen didn't have enough room for this guy?