Fastball Definition

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noun
fastballs
A pitch thrown with great velocity and that travels in a relatively straight line.
Webster's New World

(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.

The pitcher had a blazing fastball.
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Noun

Singular:
fastball
Plural:
fastballs

Fastball Sentence Examples

  • By holding different directions while throwing, you perform different pitches, like a curveball or fastball.

  • To understand this, you have only to imagine a baseball pitcher trying to throw a fastball with his legs shackled.

  • An affinity for baseball and a fastball that was clocked at 93 miles per hour got Moore drafted by both the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles, but his mother convinced him to go to college before embarking on a sports career.

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