How To Use Knuckleball In A Sentence

  • The knuckleballer failed to retire any of the five batters he faced in Saturday's start against the Rockies. National League Team Notes
  • Eddie Cicotte is thought to be the first major league pitcher to specialize in throwing the knuckleball.
  • Dickey, a 37-year-old knuckleballer, has more than $4.5 million in guaranteed money left on the two-year, $7.8 million deal he signed in January. Knuckleballs of Kilimanjaro: Dickey Plots Ascent
  • Sauveur throws a fastball, knuckleball, curveball and cutter, and he changes speeds with all of them.
  • And since they're placed irregularly on an oblong shape, one researcher compared tracking the comet to trying to hit a knuckleball.
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  • Adding two more in the sixth, courtesy of a Hideki Matsui two-run single off Boston knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, the Yankees held a commanding 8–0 lead. One Season
  • R.A. Dickey wants to unteach himself the knuckleball. K-Rod Is Last Stop On Mets' Ugly Bus
  • Also in 1908, Ed Summers became known for a pitch called a “dry spitter,” but a photo shows a pitch gripped with the first knuckles on the index and middle finger; that is, a knuckleball in the most literal sense. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • Age 35 seems to regularly usher in the beginning of a career plateau of sorts for knuckleballers.
  • When there is a foul ball, the ump will throw a knuckleball back to him, then peer out from behind his mask as if to say, ‘How's that one, Sparky?’
  • Wakefield throws a knuckleball, which is indeed extremely unpredictable. — cephyn Why Don’t Sports Teams Use Randomization? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
  • When you struck it, it moved unpredictably in the air like a knuckleball in baseball. Times, Sunday Times
  • When you struck it, it moved unpredictably in the air like a knuckleball in baseball. Times, Sunday Times
  • Boston additionally agreed to the $5 million, two-year contract with 43-year-old knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. GM Brian Cashman and Yankees go back to work after whirlwind ...
  • Oblivious to the hatred surrounding them, the Red Sox, backed by three homers and solid pitching by knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, stunned the 56, 281 in attendance with a 5-2 opening-game victory. One Season
  • He had pitched in high school and occasionally had thrown a knuckleball.
  • In writing about the knuckleball, I noted that, in the 1920s, there were two quite distinct pitches being thrown, both called the knuckleball. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • One manifestation of this gut-level dislike of the knuckler was the argument that a pitcher shouldn’t throw the knuckleball as a part of a mixed repertoire; instead, the pitch should be left to specialists. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • Still, it was an amazing season for the game's greatest knuckleballer.
  • The origins of the knuckleball are a bit murky, as four different pitchers have been said to have invented a non-spinning pitch thrown off the knuckles or the fingertips at roughly the same time. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • Wakefield, Boston's 45-year-old knuckleballer, is stalled in his pursuit of his 200th career victory. Hasn't Wakefield Waited Long Enough?
  • Wilhelm and Niekro are the only two pitchers in the Hall of Fame who relied primarily on the knuckleball throughout their careers.
  • The knuckleballer is a candidate to be left off the postseason roster, joining Manny Delcarmen. Empyreal Environs
  • One was the pitch we now call the knuckleball; the other was a pitch thrown much harder and with a different break, but also called a knuckleball see entries on Eddie Rommel, Ben Cantwell, Jesse Haines and Freddie Fitzsimmons. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • You'll learn the rules of offense and defense, and all about fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs.
  • His repertoire includes a knuckleball, which is always intriguing. Series Preview: Tigers Roundtable Discussion
  • League Championship Series, Wakefield's knuckleball is still dancing. USATODAY.com
  • Maybe he has the answer of how to get a base hit off a knuckleballer - have a terrible swing.
  • Lindell was a pitcher turned outfielder turned knuckleballer who continually reinvented himself.
  • The knuckleball is one of the toughest balls to hit," said American League Baseball - Red Sox vs. Tigers
  • When knuckleballer Tim Wakefield took the mound in the bottom of the tenth inning, I noted the time. One Season
  • In baseball, this pitch is known as a knuckleball, and neither pitcher nor batter has much idea of its exact flight path. Soccer's Knuckleball
  • The 37-year-old knuckleballer followed Johan Santana's no-hitter with a dazzling performance of his own.
  • Unlike most knuckleballers, he is controlling the pitch with pinpoint accuracy.
  • With the terminology not yet standardized, this fingernail fling was quite likely what we now call a knuckleball. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • You'll learn the rules of offense and defense, and all about fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs.
  • He's sort of like a knuckleball pitcher, " Yankees Manager Joe Torre said.
  • Demographic forces are decidedly in favor of soccer's eventual success in the land of the forward pass and the knuckleball.

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