PItchFX data from Brad Lidge’s two World Series appearances from the wonderful brooksbaseball.net:
Game 1 (2 fastballs, 13 sliders):
Game 5 (4 fastballs, 12 sliders):
31 pitches over two appearances, and only 6 of them were fastballs. That’s just ridiculous, especially for a hard throwing closer. But hey, he can throw it for strikes, so why not?
Lidge has one of those rare sliders that drops straight down and has almost no horizontal movement, as you can see here (you can also follow the links and check out the pitches with vertical movement plotted). It reminds me Scott Williamson in his prime.