Victor Wembanyama Takes the Subway to Yankee Stadium to Throw First Pitch Wembanyama, the 19-year-old French basketball star, is in town for the N.B.A. draft. At more than seven feet tall, he’s hard to miss.
What Is a Sweeper? A New Pitch Enters MLB’s Lexicon The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing.