Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or too late. It works like a curveball, but with no power. It looks like it stops in midair. It stays in the air forever. You get bored watching it hang there. So does the hitter. The Eephus makes him lose track of time. It is a poetically goofy pitch, not used in major league play, more a curious bit of the sports minutiae than a real thing, a conversation to displace the silence while sitting in the dugout waiting to bat.
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