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Sword Info
What Is a Sword?
A sword is the strikeout swing a hitter makes when a pitch fools him so badly the bat stops out front like he is holding a sword. SwordFinder ranks those finished at-bats with real clips, daily boards, and pitch-type splits.
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Finish the hitter
No K, no sword. A bad miss in the middle of an at-bat can disappear on the next pitch.3
Read the score
90+ makes the board. 100+ is an elite miss: the kind of ugly strikeout swing worth clipping.SwordFinder Method
No K, No Sword
A hitter can look lost on pitch two and still win the at-bat on pitch three. SwordFinder only crowns strikeout swings, because the sword is the lasting image: the pitcher finishes the hitter, and the ugly swing is what everyone remembers.
The SwordFinder Score is proprietary. It grades the nastiness of the strikeout miss using public bat-tracking and pitch context, then ranks the swings by how finished the hitter looked.
Creator Angle
Built for the shoutout
SwordFinder turns every MLB strikeout sword into a daily leaderboard with real clips, pitch-type splits, and a proprietary SwordFinder Score.
It is simple enough to explain in one sentence, but deep enough to click through: the worst swings of the day, the pitch that caused them, and the clip that proves it.
Source clips
Sword Lore
The original-platform clips that shaped the term, the celebration, and the baseball-internet joke.
Movie origin
The Benchwarmers line
The joke that gave baseball fans the phrase: do not chop at it, it is not a sword.
Pitching Ninja
Bauer collecting a sword
A clean example of the clip format that made swords part of baseball internet language.
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The Sword K Strut
The celebration angle: Bauer helped make the sword moment feel theatrical.
Watch on XTrevor Bauer
My first sword of the season
Bauer's own short-form clip, useful for the direct shoutout angle.
Trevor Bauer
Is this a sword?
A clean prompt for visitors who are learning the difference between a whiff and a sword.
Trevor Bauer
Die by the sword
The phrase in Bauer's own content, with the exact cultural hook SwordFinder can play off.
Momentum
First sword in Mexico
Shows the celebration and language traveling beyond the original MLB clips.
Now watch the board