fastball
Example Sentences
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He punctuated his performance with a fastball on the corner that ended the inning and wound up costing Atlanta its final ABS challenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
By that point, his fastball velocity had climbed from 92 mph to 96.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He worked back, with another fastball for a strike and a foul-tipped changeup low and away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
His fastball sat around 90 mph, far from the triple digits he would reach with the Yankees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
I had been catching long enough to judge a fastball just by the sound.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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