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Changing pitch
Answer for the clue "Changing pitch ", 9 letters:
curveball
Alternative clues for the word curveball
Word definitions for curveball in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A curveball is a type of pitch used in the sport of baseball. Curveball may also refer to: Curveball (informant) (born Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi in 1968), an Iraqi informant Curveball (Ugly Betty) , an episode of the television series Ugly Betty Curveball: ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve" 2 An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance.
Usage examples of curveball.
Between junior and real college, Barry Zito refines the delivery of his curveball to the point where it is indistinguishable, as it leaves his hand, from his otherwise uninteresting fastball.
The deliberate curveball, even as he wondered who had ratted him out to Leonard.
Castle started him off with a couple of curveballs, and he was patient enough to lay off them.
He was left-handed, threw nothing but curveballs, and had beaten us the year before, nine to two.
Screwing up his courage, John asked, "SusanSue speaking of curveballs, here's one for you.
As Brennan glanced through them he saw snippets about the sex life of politicians and the drug habits of bankers, notes on alliances between cops and gang figures, and even a list of which Dodgers had trouble with high fastballs and which were suckers for curveballs in the dirt.
Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, full count, and the pitcher had hung a curveball right over Main Street, and he was about to stroke it over the Scoreboard.
He manipulated the baseball with his right hand--index and middle fingers on top, thumb below--holding it with differ- ent grips four-seam fastball, two-seam fastball, curveball.