Kelsie Whitmore may never reach the major leagues, but the Staten Island FerryHawks pitcher appears to have invented a new, nasty pitch:

“It’s a knuckle-changeup,” Whitmore said. “I don’t try to get knuckleball movement out of it. I just want it to primarily get a lot of vertical break.”

Whereas knuckleball pitchers create unpredictable action on their pitches by eliminating spin altogether, The Thing comes out of Whitmore’s hand with just a little bit of top spin. She throws it as hard as she can, trying to get the pitch to look like a fastball at first. The rotations appears to slow as the pitch nears the plate, and that’s when the bottom falls out.

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Julio Teheran, trying to work his way back to the majors, showed interest in the pitch.