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Brandon Garza - Ambidextrous pitcher from Texas




Ambidextrous Texas high school baseball player is a switch pitcher 
 Brandon Garza has been clocked at better than 80 miles per hour with either arm.

By Mitch Stephens | MaxPreps.com - May 14, 2018

A natural right-hander, Garza told his dad as a 4-year-old he also wanted to throw with his left hand. 

Over the years, he's utilized both arms, pitching with one each game. This season, for the first time, he's pitched with different arms in the same game. 

In his first 11 starts this season, Garza was 7-4 and a 2.56 ERA in 65.2 innings. He reportedly can throw 88 miles per hour with his right hand and at least 80 mph as a lefty.
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College Park P Brandon Garza is a legitimate switch pitcher
USA Today, 18 May 2018
College Park (Texas) junior Brandon Garza has gone from being a pitcher who can alternate between pitching with his two different arms in different innings to swapping his on-mound approach from batter to batter.

Still, for College Park the biggest advantage when Garza is on the mound is the unique loophole he provides. Rather than face a 110-pitch in-game limit, Garza is allowed 110 pitches per arm, or a total of 220 per game (if needed).
[That's just crazy to think a high school pitcher should be allowed throw that much in one game. Fatigue often occurs in the legs, in young pitchers, and he only has two.]

Ambidextrous high school pitcher at College Park High School

College Park High School baseball pitcher Brandon Garza pitches with both his right and left arms.
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