The slurve is a baseball pitch in which the pitcher throws a curve ball as if it were a slider. The pitch is gripped like a curve ball, but thrown with a slider velocity. The term is a portmanteau of slider and curve.

History

Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves was known to throw a slurve in the 1940s. On May 6, 1998, Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs utilized the slurve in a major-league record-tying 20 strikeout game.

References

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  • The Mechanics Of A Breaking Pitch at Popular Mechanics