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Phillips mixed in five pitches during the outing — 17 sinkers, 14 splitters, 12 sweepers, nine curveballs and seven four-seam fastballs — and generated 10 swings and misses.—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 May 2026 Woods Richardson’s splitter has a minus-13 Run Value, tying it with Aaron Nola’s four-seam fastball for the worst pitch in baseball.—Dan Hayes, New York Times, 21 May 2026 Jeremiah Estrada relieved Canning at the start of the second and had his fifth pitch, a splitter low and inside a smidge of the plate, launched 399 feet.—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026 Aaron Judge singled off Rodríguez (0-1), who had just relieved with two outs, and Bellinger drove a low splitter into the Yankees bullpen in right-center.—CBS News, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for splitter