Late Cocking

Phase 3.

Late Cocking-Begins when your front foot makes contact with the ground. As the foot hits the grounds, your body twists to face the direction you are throwing the ball in.

Shoulder Girdle
Scapula of your throwing shoulder upward rotation using tthe trapezius muscle and serratus anterior muscle. The scapula on your glove hand shoulder downward rotates using your rhomboids and pectoralis minor muscles.

Shoulder Joint
Throwing Hand-Slightly starts to diagonally adduct by concentrically contracting your pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, and coracobrachialis muscles.
Glove Hand- Adduct shoulder joint by eccentrically contracting your latissimus dorsi, teres major, and lower pectoralis major muscles.

Elbow Joint
Flexion of your glove hand elbow by concentrically contracting the biceps brachii, brachialis, and brachioradialis muscles.
Your throwing hand forearm is slightly supinated by concentrically contracting the biceps brachii, brachioradialis, and supinator muscles.

Hip Joint
Non Throwing foot causes the hip to externally rotate by eccentrically contracting your piriformis, gemellus superior and inferior, obturator internus and externus, and quadratus femoris muscles.
The opposite side of your hip internally rotates by concentrically contracting your gracilis, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus muscles.

Knee Joint
Non throwing knee slightly flexes by concetrically contracting your biceps femoris, popliteus, semimembranosus and semitendinosus. The throwing internally rotates by isometrically contracting your popliteus, semimembranosus and semitendinosus muscles.