Sentences with word «fastball»

What works is having top - billed Michael Keaton throw fastballs in his delivery of amusing and sometimes touching lines — even though he dies less than halfway through.

They throw fastballs in the National League, not that American League junk.»

Pitchers should be able to exploit him with fastballs up (he's a dead low - ball hitter) and hard stuff on his hands, the way they exploit the mechanics of Jason Heyward's swing.

He's not unfocused on the plate, however, as he just threw a 94 mph fastball high on Contreras that the backstop could not lay off of.

If Doolittle still can't throw a slider, and is going to throw an endless parade of fastballs for the entire season, he'll continue to be an utterly average closer.

Then he struck the next three batters out on fastballs.

Despite the stark data, not everyone in baseball agrees that playoff baseball is better for fastball pitchers.

Shohei Ohtani, fooled by left - handed changeups in earlier at - bats, was really late on a 98 - mph fastball from right - hander Joe Kelly and strikes out for the third time tonight.

I'd like to think that Arrieta literally thought «He'll never look for a belt - high fastball in the middle of the zone!»

One that has you throwing fastballs at guys wearing tiger masks.

Afterward, he said, «I tried to throw cheese [good fastballs], but it wasn't a sharp cheddar, it was more like a soft Brie.»

Peacock had success in Game 3 relieving Lance McCullers, picking up a multi-inning save without giving up a hit despite throwing a bunch of fastballs down the middle of the plate.

Most impressive part of the at - bat: When the 19 - year - old spit on the second and third pitches he ever saw in the majors, inside fastballs with good location that were designed to punish an overanxious hitter.

Most of the great fastball pitchers were wild at some time in their careers.

This huge improvement compared to the last Camaro is in large part due to its new suspension, which manages to not only mitigate punishment from potholes, but also curb body pitch and roll even when you throw it like a four - seam fastball into a corner.

So, knowing what you now know about Palmeiro, perhaps you'll be surprised by what happened after he sent that first - pitch fastball from Carrasco streaking toward the rightfield wall at Camden Yards.

There's a much smaller part of you that realizes there's still a chance Cliff Pennington could rope a 98 - mph fastball into the gap the second time he bats in the inning.

I'm not seeing a path to the pennant for the Mets that includes a lot of 10 - 7 slugfests, which means we'll be so jazzed to watch Jacob deGrom throw to Jose Bautista, or for Syndergaard to try to sneak a 100 mph fastball past Edwin Encarnacion.

He knows if he can't throw back - to - back fastballs by you, he'll sneak in a curve... I love Tim Hudson.

They can't find the zone either, and all they seem to do is lob 98 mph straight fastballs right down the plate.

As the average fastball in baseball starts ticking up into the mid-90s, there are going to be more latent Arrietas than not.

* Say, pitchers evolving to Aroldis Chapman - like fastballs, but doing it with pinpoint control that neutralizes the big - data revolution... for a couple years, at least.

When Chicago requires late - inning help, out of the bullpen comes Bruce Sutter, whose unique «split - fingered fastball» has made him the most effective relief pitcher in the game

But I don't think he got fastball above 89?

While many pitchers can throw 90 mile - per - hour fastballs in spring training, few can hold onto the same performance during a World Series game.

The righty's 97.5 average fastball velocity was the second best in all of baseball among pitchers who threw at least 80 IP in 2017, and with a change - up that's a full 10 mph slower, he's got a devastating strikeout pitch to match it.

Or having beefcake star Dwayne Johnson flex his pectorals at incoming chokeberries, sending 3 - D major league fastballs whizzing at our heads.

When a pitcher throws a first - pitch 98 - mph fastball low in the strike zone to Cliff Pennington, he should feel like he's done a Very Good Baseball Thing.

We learn to play baseball, for instance, not by flailing a bat at fastballs until we hit one but via education: We are shown how to knock Wiffle balls off a tee and then to swing at easy lofts until we're ready for a real pitch.

Ramirez fouled a high fastball against the leg with a protective guard on it, except he didn't hit himself in said guard.

Should be an interesting season, with Brault doing a good job, Moran not so good but its one game, however if Feliz only throws dead straight fastballs he will be the guy going to Indy when the rotation stabilizes.

Jeff Locke's unraveling began with an innocuous fastball away but over the plate.

Various mechanical contrivances have been employed over the years to time fastballs.

She throws a mean fastball when she's on the pitcher's mound, and her batting special, Flower Swing, makes a garden bloom in the outfield.

Maldonado struck out on a wicked fastball down in the strike zone, as one does against Edwin Diaz.

Ever at - bat, Zim is watching a belt - high fastball go by on the first pitch, and then he's swinging at junk, almost all of it away b / c he's standing 3 feet from the plate and no longer has the athleticism to reach balls on the outer half.

In the article, Passan highlights the loss in velocity for aces like Justin Verlander, CC Sabathia and Felix Hernandez, while also identifying 13 pitchers who have seen the biggest decline in their average fastball speed (in terms of mph):

it looked like Glasnow was only throwing fastballs after Cervelli could not catch any breaking balls.

I have tried with a couple teams and just how terrible I am at slow pitch threatened to erase all the years I played fastball and wasn't half bad.

Alex Cora is an above - average defensive shortstop, but I've seen teams throw so - so fastballs right by him.

He only threw 165 innings last season and he had to figure out how to pitch without an overpowering fastball with a lot of movement (and he did).

Radar verifies what the flinch factor tells wary batsmen: California's Nolan Ryan throws the fastest fastball ever timed.

What we see might be what we get, and what we're seeing is about 600 innings of league - average pitching, with imperfect command and a much lower strikeout rate than his mid-90s fastball suggests.

Does this sudden inability to hit center cut fastballs have to mean anything?

The hiss of a nasty fastball blowing past the thick barrel of a weightlifter's thin - handled bat grows fainter.

MLB pitchers who have undergone Tommy John surgery threw on average 7 percent more fastballs than pitchers who had no surgery.

• Rising fastball.

You're talking about the biggest fastball since Rob Dibble's, topping out at 101 mph....