Player Name: Reiss Knehr
Position: RHP
School: St. Dominic ’15, Fordham ’19
Reiss is a 6’2″, two-way player with great power at the plate but only pitched on this particular night. He was named 2015 Catholic League Player of the Year.
He threw one inning against Suffolk in the All Star Game. He had an easy 1-2-3 inning to close the game and record the save.
He begins his windup with his hands low around the belt. He takes a very small step back and keeps his eyes locked in on his target. He has a leg kick that is slightly above the belt and he gets his hands shoulder height with his back leg firm. He gets good but not great drive from his back leg and swings his front leg around rather than bringing it straight forward. His stride is good length for his height and his arm angle is high 3/4. He does not finish as well as he could and he recoils as soon as he delivers the ball.
In this outing he worked with a two-pitch arsenal. He hit 91 with his fastball and threw his breaking ball in the mid 70s.
He threw only nine pitches in this outing. He got the first batter to roll over to shortstop on a 90 MPH fastball on an 0-2 pitch. He also got another 5-3 ground out on an 0-2 to the following batter. To end the game, he got ahead of the leadoff hitter on a fastball looking, then a foul ball, before catching him looking on a sweeping breaking ball.
