fastball

Example Sentences

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He then attacked the strike zone with back-to-back fastballs, both of which Rojas fouled away, into the stands.

From Los Angeles Times

I was thirteen and didn’t know a foul ball from a fastball, but the Tigers were in town and the moment I heard they had a Jewish slugger called Hank Greenberg, I was hooked.

From Literature

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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