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Breaking pitch in baseball
Answer for the clue "Breaking pitch in baseball ", 6 letters:
slider
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A slider is a small rectangular piece of fabric with a grommet near each corner used to control the deployment of a "ram-air" parachute . A ram-air parachute has a tendency to open very rapidly. At high velocities, the opening shock from such a rapid deployment ...
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n. 1 (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of slide:) one who slides. 2 (context baseball English) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when ...
Usage examples of slider.
Inside the condo Jesse poured them each a Poire Williams and they stood at the glass slider and looked out past his deck at the dark harbor.
On the tenth pitch of the at bat, after fouling off four pitches with Superman swings, Sweeney takes a slider from Tam and golfs it off the 1-800-BAR-NONE sign, just over the left field wall.
A large wooden board was fixed to the wall near the sales window, with plastic sliders upon which, in Cyrillic, were the names of various destinations.
The left armrest contained a row of several joysticks or sliders that could individually be moved back and forth, left to right, between two extremes.
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We would need, I said, another slider for inspecting the undersides of the boxes and Harve, nodding, suggested I ask Nigel to make one.
He had been a wide receiver of no little renown, and on the mound of a baseball diamond had once possessed a slider that justifiably intimidated the opposition.