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off-speed pitch

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

How To Use off-speed pitch In A Sentence

  • Colon was expected to mix in off-speed pitches, but he has been trying to get by with average heat.
  • Two batters later, Valentin golfed a 3-2 off-speed pitch well over the wall in right field. USATODAY.com
  • The statistics don't reflect, for instance, how many times pitchers plunk batters with changeups, curveballs or other off-speed pitches, or how much effort a hitter makes to get out of the way.
  • One of the more noticeable changes has been his ability to stay away from off-speed pitches.
  • His mid-90s fastball is useful primarily in that it sets up his off-speed pitches. For CC, Weight Is Just a Number
  • In two-strike counts, he looks for off-speed pitches away.
  • His looping, often tardy swing makes solid contact against little other than hanging off-speed pitches.
  • He used his fastball to set up his off-speed pitches.
  • The latter two are promising young arms, but neither has a polished off-speed pitch.
  • He felt he out-thought himself in his last start, abandoning his fastball too quickly for off-speed pitches, and in the process lost his aggressiveness.
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