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Can Jose Alvarado Get a Hit Off Pedro Martínez? · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Check this out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Think you can get a hit off Pedro?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Calmfully, I can say yeah. Get your swing ready, boy. Jose, Jose, Jose, Jose.
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  Speaker 3: I'm linking up with baseball legend Pedro Martinez. Pedro's gonna
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  Speaker 3: show me how to throw some of his best pitches.
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  Speaker 2: Then we gonna see if we gonna get a hit
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  Speaker 2: off him. Did you play?
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  Speaker 3: I was always a big fan of baseball, but I
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  Speaker 3: didn't grow up the best with living and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So it got to a point where basketball was the
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  Speaker 3: answer and I took.
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  Speaker 2: Advantage of it. What was your motivation?
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  Speaker 1: For me, bringing the trophy to Boston after 86 years.
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  Speaker 1: Now for you, how does it feel to own New York?
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  Speaker 2: It was something I really couldn't put in words. It
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  Speaker 2: was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: But my favorite part of winning the championship was seeing
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  Speaker 3: my parents when that buzzer went off. And for them
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  Speaker 3: to see their son do something that they never thought
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  Speaker 3: was possible.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be a memory for a lifetime, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Forever. We waited 86.
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  Speaker 1: He only waited 53. Come on, I'll show you something.
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  Speaker 3: Before meeting him today, I definitely had to make sure
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  Speaker 3: I came correct. So I asked Google Search for some help.
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  Speaker 3: How good was Pedro Martinez really? Greatest and most dominant
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  Speaker 3: stretch of pitching in history. Under 2.0 ERA, that boy
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  Speaker 3: was on fire. The change-up, widely regarded as the greatest
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  Speaker 3: circle change-up ever thrown.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me see right here.
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  Speaker 3: What makes a circle change-up different from a regular change-up?
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  Speaker 2: Basically the grip. It changes how the ball spins, moves,
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  Speaker 2: and drops. Sounds crazy.
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  Speaker 1: For me, fastball was that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Fingers really flexible, that's why I threw hard.
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  Speaker 2: And a change-up, That's what I really want to know.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I really want.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, a good changeup comes after a good fastball.
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  Speaker 1: So I will do fastball and off the fastball, the changeup.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the okay curve? Yeah. I just read that.
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  Speaker 1: So it looks like the same, but when you involve
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  Speaker 1: this one instead of the other two, it's not as
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  Speaker 1: strong and it will come off that finger. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have the strength of these two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you take them off, and you become circle changer.
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  Speaker 2: You get them to.
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  Speaker 1: Believe that's gonna be a fastball, fastball, fastball, and then
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  Speaker 1: you go, boom! And it's a changeup, and by the grip,
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  Speaker 1: the ball goes 10 miles an hour less.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you messing people up.
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  Speaker 1: It's all physics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see. It's like a fake. Oh yeah, like, boom!
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  Speaker 2: Got him, and then you just, it's a mind game.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mind game then. It's a cotton mouse kind
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  Speaker 2: of game. I wanna see the changeup. That's my thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you get it done.
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  Speaker 2: You hook them. Yeah, hook them. And then that butter pitch.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty dope.
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  Speaker 1: Right there. Move your fingers because you want to have
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  Speaker 1: it in between these two fingers now.
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  Speaker 2: Grip the changer. That's nice. That's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's like you're shooting a basketball off the tip
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  Speaker 1: of your fingers to that side so that the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Goes that way. Keep it loose. Keep it loose. Nice! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time you hit?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm gonna be your BP thrower.
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  Speaker 1: I wanna see if you can hit my pitches.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Get your swing ready, boy. You know fastball's coming, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Foul.
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  Speaker 1: Fly ball, out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not being stingy.
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  Speaker 3: String!
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  Speaker 2: Another fumble! I just gotta wait a little longer. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta get at least a hit. Third at bat, don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: I stood there, though. He wasn't swinging at the first
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  Speaker 2: pitch this time. Oh, basic! Finally got a hit. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to start flipping.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. It always looks like it's going to go out there,
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  Speaker 2: and it stays right here. Ball. Good take.
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  Speaker 1: See, I'm a fair umpire.
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  Speaker 2: No! One and two. It's getting good. Don't throw the fastball.
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  Speaker 1: Check this out.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha! Welcome to the change-up world.
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  Speaker 1: I told you I made a living on that pitch.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard.
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  Speaker 3: Now seeing your pitches, I understand why you got an
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  Speaker 3: under-tuned RA.
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  Speaker 2: You still got it. Just make sure y'all show me
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  Speaker 2: my hip.
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  Speaker 1: From New York to Boston, this is how we roll.
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  Speaker 2: It was fun. Thanks, Google.