breaking ball

noun

baseball
: a pitch that curves
The pitcher threw a breaking ball.

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After Kurtz swung and missed a breaking ball, Abreu left another one up in the zone, and Kurtz hit it over the trees in the right field grass area at Sutter Health Park. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2025 Smith's 88 mph breaking ball caught the lower half of the strike zone, and Tellez, one of the game's harder hitters, barreled one up. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025 Last year, Doval threw his slider roughly half the time (51.5%), complementing the breaking ball with his cutter (34.9%) and sinker (13.8%). Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 May 2025 After hitting off the tee, Crow-Armstrong will go through flip drills, then hit the type of breaking ball he’s expected to see that night and finish with more swings against fastballs. Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 15 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for breaking ball

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“Breaking ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breaking%20ball. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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