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change-up

NOUN
  1. a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball

How To Use change-up In A Sentence

  • The band used to run from cumbia to dub to hip hop and back again all within the space of a single song, but now the change-ups mostly happen between songs.
  • The language of the game changes substantially in every generation; a rising fastball becomes a four-seam fastball which becomes a four-seamer, a forkball becomes a split-fingered fastball which becomes a splitter, a drop curve becomes an overhand curve which becomes a 12-to-6 curve, an incurve becomes a fadeaway, a fadeaway becomes a screwball, and now almost nobody throws a screwball but people throw a circle change-up that does the same thing, sort of. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • Chants of "Who's Your Daddy?" filled Yankee Stadium, and still the Bombers 'one-time archnemesis flashed a devestating change-up. Bloggin' Baseball
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