curveball
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Talk about inspiration: It was as if Clayton Kershaw had seen a kid throw a curveball and said, “Not bad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
I never expected life to throw me this curveball.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
In the bottom of the third, Yamamoto gave up a leadoff single and issued two walks before Yelich came up with two outs and drove a curveball into center field for two runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
A packed Commons chamber, with curveball questions, hostile opposition politicians and the biggest TV and online audience of the week will be a world away from his nine years as Mayor of Greater Manchester.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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
Snell then struck out Sean Murphy to end the inning, finishing the at-bat with three straight curveballs for strikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He toyed around with sliders and curveballs and change-ups and even a splitter in the hopes of finding an off-speed option to complement his ever-improving fastball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
No curveballs, but then there was never going to be.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Oliver Laxe’s road movie about a father and son who caravan across Morocco with a pack of tattooed strangers is set in a vast desert where you still somehow never see the plot’s curveballs coming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
All he did was set the Say Hey Kid down swinging — on three straight curveballs.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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