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R.A. Dickey can apparently also throw his knuckleball sidearm

Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey throws a pitch that no other Major League pitcher throws with regularity: the knuckleball. This is how he usually throws it:

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Not content with only one oddball pitch, the 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner tossed one of his knucklers sidearm during Tuesday's Yankees-Blue Jays game. Why? Well, why not.

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Those batters who look so fooled, by-the-by, are Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez - pretty decent hitters. But the batter almost doesn't matter when a guy throws a pitch that can go anywhere, and throws it with his arm moving at just about any angle.

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(h/t Eye on Baseball)

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