Every pitch is an eephus, which, as one player explains, is a pitch thrown so slowly that it has the effect of stopping time. The players serve as an antidote to the primacy of athletic excellence in ...

Following an injury to Jared Spencer, somebody new has taken the mound for series openers. Ruger Riojas went out there against Arkansas, hoping to get Texas a win against an old rival. While the ...

An eephus pitch is a low-speed, high-arcing lob thrown with three fingers like a curveball. This trick-pitch’s power is in its slowness, which confuses batters. “You get bored watching it ...

In this slow-pitch gem of a baseball movie — a middle-aged Sandlot — time is slipping away, but they’re going down swinging. Cliff Blake in a scene from ‘Eephus.’ (Music Box Films) Money, analytics ...

Fisher also has an onscreen role in the film as Merritt Nettles, a player on the Adler’s Paint team who defines the eephus pitch to the uninitiated. Eephus had its world premiere last year at the ...

The Colonial Theatre has a special screening of Eephus on Thursday, May 29. The movie also played recently at Catamount Arts ...

The most he had given up was three heading into Thursday. Riojas rotated in an eephus pitch to Charles Davalan, Arkansas' leadoff hitter, in the third inning. Davalan struck out swinging and was ...

Riojas went deep into his bag of tricks to try and get the Razorbacks out, throwing three eephus pitches in three different at-bats all under 60 miles an hour. Cam Kozeal, getting the start at ...

Baseball makes the perfect sport for a hangout movie. Long stretches of boredom punctuated by a few seconds of excitement ...

Attaining big-screen success is no easy feat. Yet, with their new baseball film Eephus, Stephen Radochia and Nate Fisher, BC ’15, stepped up to the plate. “It’s been a very, very, very surreal ride,” ...

Every pitch is an eephus, which, as one player explains, is a pitch thrown so slowly that it has the effect of stopping time. The players serve as an antidote to the primacy of athletic excellence ...