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Traditionally, the baseball pitch is considered overhanded or overhead while the softball pitch is underhanded. Within this traditional rhetoric, one assumes vast differences in the two pitching styles and thus, the common misconception of the underhand softball pitch producing less stress to the upper extremity when compared to the overhand baseball pitch. Though if we take a step away from the traditional rhetoric, we can describe both the baseball and softball pitch as dynamic upper extremity movements that requires the body to efficiently generate and transfer energy in a proximal to distal sequencing. The reality is that the true difference between the two pitches is the arm slot. *Correspondence to: Gretchen D Oliver PhD, FACSM, ATC, CES, Professor, School of Kinesiology, Sports Medicine & Movement Lab, Auburn University, USA, E-mail: gdo0001@auburn.edu

Baseball pitching and softball pitching: Why the perplexity?