Ryan Rigby began throwing sidearm on a whim during his junior year at Kosciusko High School.
Rigby occasionally used the delivery when playing shortstop and integrated it into his arsenal on the mound.
The right-hander finally decided to give it a shot during a particularly long at bat in which a hitter kept fouling off his pitches. He dropped down and the batter swung and missed for strike three.
Rigby continued to throw sidearm with two strikes for the next two years and on into his freshman season at East Mississippi Community College. He had so much success that his coaches at EMCC finally just told him to drop down exclusively.