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curveball
[ kurv-bawl ]
noun
- 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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of curveball1
Example Sentences
Jackson Eisenhauer curveball is on.
Eisenhauer has what he calls a sweeper — a combination slider/curveball — that makes his fastball even better.
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.
“I think having that curveball has helped me out,” Glasnow said.
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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