fastball
Example Sentences
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Lee, twice a Game 1 World Series starter, did not average 92 mph on his fastball but pitched 200 innings eight times.
From Los Angeles Times
The knock on him was that he occasionally lacked consistency and didn’t have much nuance to his game, not unlike a baseball pitcher who only fires 100 mph fastballs.
Striker Pence, a sophomore pitcher at Corona Santiago with a 100-mph fastball, will receive an endorsement deal from a radar gun company.
From Los Angeles Times
Imai, a 27-year-old right-hander with a fastball that reaches 99 miles per hour, is the latest heralded pitcher on his way to the majors.
Cases include electrocution, drowning, overdose, scurvy, sickle cell anemia, a nail in the chest, a fastball in the eye and gallstones, with all the personal drama one expects from a hospital show.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
