The Seventh Was Better Than The Twenty

"I watched him throw this bullpen, and all of a sudden I saw a ball that I hadn't seen," Gwynn said. Nine teams finished the 162-game regular season with an even-tempered shot at winning it all. "I was sitting down watching him, and I stood up and called over Rusty Filter, our defense accountant, and I said, 'What was that? Was that something different?' And he told me, 'He's working on it.' " So, what is this individuality tenth pitch? Gwynn is tight-lipped about the details, disclosing just 2 things: It's an off-speed pitch, and Strasburg learned it while hitting with the outlaw USA during the Beijing Olympics. This is a very rare story. Gwynn talks about Strasburg's record 4th pitch