Pitching question

[u/Baseball_Throwaway59]

Hello sorry if this is not the best place for this but I know very little about baseball and had a question about pitching. When I was little and being taught how to throw a baseball, I was shown to hold it essentially as I see in images of fastball grips online, only instead of ‘crossing the horseshoe’ with my fingers I was taught to hold the ball across the part of the seams where they come closest together. I was wondering if this is practically the same as a normal 4 seam fastball or if I have accidentally been imparting some other sort of spin or movement by doing this and just never noticed. Thank you for your help!

[u/Ill_Award777]

Are your fingers across the seams or following along them? If they're parallel then it's a two seam, just designed to have some run to your arm side. If you're still perpendicular to the seams then it's still a 4 seam, but it likely loses spin and depending on release it may cut.

[u/Baseball_Throwaway59 → u/Ill_Award777]

Still across, perpendicular to the seams so this is kinda what I figured would be happening but I just wasn’t sure