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curveball

or curve ball

[ kurv-bawl ]

noun

Baseball.
  1. a pitch with a downward spin that causes the ball to drop and veer as it approaches home plate, away from the side from which it was thrown:

    He started perfecting his curveball during his junior year in high school.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of curveball1

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
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Jackson Eisenhauer curveball is on.

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Eisenhauer has what he calls a sweeper — a combination slider/curveball — that makes his fastball even better.

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He also noted a series of pitch grip tweaks he has worked on with McGuiness — especially to a curveball that had gotten too “slurvy” in recent years, with an increasing amount of horizontal movement; but is back to featuring a hard-diving vertical drop that he can use to bury it in the dirt.

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“I think having that curveball has helped me out,” Glasnow said.

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He struck out the first two batters he faced, snapping off a nasty curveball to Michael Harris II before blowing a 98-mph fastball by Austin Riley.

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