NOUN
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
How To Use breaking ball In A Sentence
- As soon as the Red Sox saw he had neither, they ignored his breaking balls and feasted on his fastballs en route to a 6-4 win on Tuesday night in the Bronx. Score Sheet
- Strings popped up and I was surprised there was nobody from Wales around me because they would be onside from a breaking ball like that.
- Then in the sixth, again on a breaking ball, the pitch clanks off catcher Erik Castro and rolls out toward the mound, where Strasburg picks it up and fires to first to complete the putout. Eight Sliders Sliding
- He has good command of three pitches - a quality cutter, a backdoor breaking ball and a hard slider.
- When a breaking ball fell to the full forward his rasping shot came off the crossbar but he was alert to fist the rebound to the net.
- He also showed tighter spin on his breaking ball.
- Coming up from the minors is the right-handed-hitting Juan Uribe, who has good sock but can be undisciplined on breaking balls.
- Most are hard throwers with flawed deliveries and crude breaking balls; otherwise, they would be starters.
- It was then that he added a pitch he calls his "Frisbee," a slow, sidearm breaking ball that made him look as if he was skimming a flat rock across a still pond. When All Else Fails, Try Sidearm
- Some guys open up so much, the batboy can tell when a breaking ball is coming.
