When did Randy Johnson start using the eephus pitch?
Here’s the article, and a brief “history” of the eephus pitch, and a link to the video of it: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807273209355 A Brief History of the Eephus Pitch By Fred Bierman Tags: randy johnson On Sunday, Randy Johnson was facing San Francisco outfielder Fred Lewis in the first inning and threw a pitch so slow that it failed to even register on the radar gun. Lewis was obviously expecting something with a little more heat on it and the pitch fluttered in for strike two. Lewis eventually worked a single in the at bat on the way to becoming the first lefty ever to get four hits off Johnson. Arizona went on to win the game, 7-2. The slow ball, however, turned out to be inadvertent. A boat horn honked in McCovey cove right as Johnson was delivering the ball distracting the Johnson in the middle of his windup and resulting in the surprising pitch. As my colleague Tyler Kepner can t
