sinker

An array of curveballs, cutters and sinkers complemented it perfectly, holding the Yankees hitless over the first three innings.

“You hit Tatis with a sinker after he’s two for two with a bomb and a double off of him?”

“It was kind of nice not having to worry about sinkers in and cutters and curveballs and stuff like that for a day,” he said.

"And they fell for it hook, line and sinker."

I myself was what’s known as a “sinker”; in my youth, I’d learned to overcome fear of the water and to get around in it, but I never mastered technique.