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Jimenez on the mound, armed with a 98 mph fastball and staked to a one-run lead.
From the denverpost.com
He's torn between focusing on basketball year-round and unleashing his fastball.
From the stltoday.com
He has a fabulous arm, throwing a 94-97 mph fastball with a power breaking ball.
From the freep.com
Seldom reaching 90 mph with his fastball, Braden did it mostly with a screwball.
From the freep.com
The Oakland left-hander's curve ball was flat and his fastball didn't move much.
From the sacbee.com
Howard received one fat fastball to hit, then whiffed on a nasty breaking pitch.
From the denverpost.com
He relies on one pitch, a fastball, and has a worrisome strikeout-to-walk ratio.
From the washingtonpost.com
His fastball does not exceed 85 miles per hour, so he does not overpower anyone.
From the nytimes.com
The left-handed pitcher was known for his fastball and feared for his curveball.
From the fresnobee.com
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
- The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball. Some "power pitchers," such as Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, have thrown fastballs at speeds of 95u2013106u00A0mph (152.9u2013170.59u00A0km/h) (officially) and up to 108.1u00A0mph (174u00A0km/h) (unofficially), relying purely on speed to prevent the ball from being hit...
- Fastball is an American rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in the 1990s. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records.
- Fastball is a DC Comics supervillain.
- Any of the variations of high speed pitches thrown in baseball; A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
- A very fast pitch. In Major League Baseball a fastball will be around 95 - 100 miles an hour plus or minus 2-3 mph.
- The most common pitch; it is thrown around 90 miles per hour.
