Definition of changeup
: a slow pitch in baseball thrown with the same motion as a fastball in order to deceive the batter
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Examples of changeup in a Sentence
The batter struck out on a changeup.
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Albright, a 6-4 right-hander, can touch 91-mph with his fastball and his curveball hovers in the mid-70s along with an 80-mph changeup.
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Yelich took a changeup to run the count to 1–2, and then grounded out to short on a four-seamer.
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However, there *is* going to be a bit of a changeup: The show is getting a new director, Andrea Arnold, replacing season one director Jean-Marc Vallée.
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Blue Jays reliever Tyler Clippard, with the count full, tried to fool Stanton with a changeup.
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Mainieri said after two changeups, Duplantis was looking for a fastball over the plate with two outs in the ninth inning.
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Green features a two-seam fastball, a four-seam fastball, a changeup and a curveball.
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Ohtani dug out a low 0-and-2 changeup from Pedro Baez that shattered his bat and resulted in a soft line-drive out to first base in the sixth.
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His repertoire includes a four-seamer that sits at 96–97 mph, a power slider that gathered a 22.8% whiff rate last season, and a developing changeup that helped him improve his performance against lefties last season.
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First Known Use of changeup
circa 1943
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Definition of changeup for English Language Learners
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baseball : a slow pitch that is thrown with the same motion as a fastball in order to fool the batter
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