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Fastball meaning
A high-speed pitch of a baseball. | A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
Example sentences (20)
But that would also require political skill, and Farrell may have lost his fastball in the five-plus years he’s been out of office and instead in the venture capital business (that is, if Mark Farrell ever even had a fastball).
What Davis realized is that his success feeds off his fastball, so he developed a curveball to go with his fastball, slider and changeup.
A fastball special follows to end this one.
And sometimes I threw a fastball and they just made contact.
Bednar struck out Marsh to start the 10th, but Rojas hit a 1-2 fastball to score Pache from second, clinching the win to start the celebration.
Betts then pummeled a 99-mph fastball from Strider to right field, 371 feet from home plate, where it bounced off the top of the padded wall.
But his fastball-slider-changeup combo kept the Yankees at bay long enough.
Casas quickly reestablished Boston's four-run cushion, launching an 0-1 fastball to the center field bleachers to lead off the fourth.
Deceptive delivery, mid-90s fastball with a wicked Slurve.
Ebel said he relied on his fastball most of the game.
Exhibit A: A 2-and-2 high fastball to Ronald Acuña Jr. in the second inning, with one out and the bases loaded.
FOX Sports color commentator John Smoltz did a great job at building toward the moment when he noted how Seager has the ability to turn on a high fastball.
Graduate shortstop Zack Prajzner jumped on a two-strike fastball and ripped it 430 feet to the top of the center-field batter’s eye.
He got a 3-1 fastball and tattooed it out of the park for a solo homer.
Heim fouls off another fastball, the fifth of the at-bat.
He jumped on Zack Littell’s first-pitch fastball, driving the ball to right-center for his third homer of the season.
He threw some fastballs in fastball counts that he was able to get by good hitters.
He worked the count to 3-1 off West Aurora starter Lucas Aguirre, then turned on a fastball for a homer to left.
His fastball has sat at 93-94 mph in three Cactus League outings.
I feel like I didn’t really wake up and find my better fastball until about the third inning.