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Min clutches it in the same messed up looking grip, rears up, and lets another pitch go.
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It's Min's turn to pitch now.
Chryssa hands the ball over to her and heads over to the plate to bat.
Whenever you're ready!
The fielders are all backing up. Chryssa's even taller than Diya, so she looks like she could hit it pretty far.
Min clutches the ball in a claw-like grip.
She brings her arm back and then forward, hard, over the top, and lets go.
As the ball approaches the plate it does a little hop, like a hiccup.
Chryssa looks weirded out. She doesn't swing.
The flutter is just enough to throw Liz off— the ball glances off the side of her glove and bounces off her kneecap.
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What the...
It's kind of creepy, isn't it? Seeing the ball coming at you without spinning.
Yeah! It was, like, just floating at me...
Er...I couldn't tell the difference.
It looked normal to me.
Liz returns the ball to Min.
Min clutches it in the same messed up looking grip, rears up, and lets another pitch go.
Chryssa misses it by a foot. It's a pitch you couldn't hit with a tennis racket.
Liz has to twist into a weird angle to stop the ball in the dirt.
A knuckleball, huh!
What's that?
It's a rare pitch thrown with nearly no spin, so its path is unpredictable.
Oh. I get it! You're making this up as an excuse for why you missed.
I'm not making it up!
It operates on the same principle as a float serve in volleyball.
Or a knuckleball in soccer, if you know that.
Uh, no. I don't know either of those.
Okay, so when you pitch a ball normally, it spins like crazy — somewhere around 10 times on the way to the plate.
Spin is what gives a ball stability as it moves.
If you can learn to throw a ball with minimal spin, its instability will give it an unpredictable trajectory.
It starts behaving like a chaotic system, like the weather.
And that's great, because a lot of sports mastery is just recognizing situations.

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Min clutches it in the same messed up looking grip, rears up, and lets another pitch go.
Min clutches it in the same messed up looking grip, rears up, and lets another pitch go.
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game/2_noelle.rpy:1102
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2 years ago
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translations.pot, string 2736