There has been controversy whether eating/sucking on sweets make the spit of the bowler/fielder more "sticky" and therefore more conducive to being shined. This helps the ball to swing more in the air. Lots of spit, and rubbing on their clothes. Interestingly, in cricket, the bowlers and fielders work a lot on the ball to keep one side shiny. Like Jazz said above, you want the batter to have no clue about what kind of pitch is coming so that they don't really know how to prepare for it other than by guessing. What you're talking about is accomplished by using the same pitching mechanics but delivering the ball in juuuust a little bit different of a manner somehow whether it's moving your wrist and forearm in a weird way to make the ball move differently, throwing the ball more slowly or more quickly, or even just holding the ball differently. This could be very bad depending on how quickly the defense figures out where the ball is and whether they're able to throw the ball to where the runners are going to try to tag them out. Like was said before, if the ball bounces before it gets to the pitcher, it's considered a 'ball.' This could actually be really dangerous for a defense if the ball hits the ground and goes off somewhere and isn't in any defender's control, I *think* if there are any runners on base that they're allowed to try to advance.
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