curveball
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Matthew Liberatore, a young lefty for the St. Louis Cardinals, was thrilled when his curveball was featured on PitchingNinja.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
For the next four pitches, he alternated between his four-seam fastball and off-speed pitches — first his changeup and then curveball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Aston Villa's transfer plans were thrown a curveball by an injury to Amadou Onana.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“The U.S.-Israel war with Iran threw a major curveball at the economy,” wrote lead U.S. economist Bernard Yaros of Oxford Economics.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
So if I was wanting a fastball, I would watch and see how often he threw a fastball or if it always followed a curveball, things like that.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
No curveballs, but then there was never going to be.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
To be fair, they have been thrown some major curveballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
“Someone who retires with a set-it-and-forget-it plan may find it’s no longer relevant, because life constantly throws us curveballs, like changes in family circumstances, health and the economy.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
His secondary stuff was electric, a mix of sliders and sweepers and curveballs and splitters that kept the Phillies off balance and able to make only benign contact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
All he did was set the Say Hey Kid down swinging — on three straight curveballs.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
