How to Use changeup in a Sentence

changeup

noun
  • The batter struck out on a changeup.
  • The homer came on a changeup that hung at the top of the strike zone.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 9 June 2022
  • To see that and to see the changeup thrown for strikes and the slider was good.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Like Miller, where Luke (Smith) made the jump was the changeup.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The 6-foot-3 Wicks is armed with arguably the best changeup in the draft class.
    Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
  • Ahead in the count 2-0, Ramírez whiffed on a changeup low and over the middle of the plate.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • Bracho threw a changeup, 85.5 mph, right over the heart of the plate.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Akin’s changeup and slider were among the five worst in the league.
    Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Wood allowed a full-count changeup to hang over the heart of the plate.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
  • The rest of the fingers hold the ball like a normal changeup.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Should have gone with the (two-seam fastball) off the plate or back to the changeup.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 23 July 2025
  • Gagne threw his fastball in the mid 90s (mph) with a changeup in the mid 80s.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2020
  • But a misplaced changeup led to a homer to Jonathan Schoop to start the fifth.
    Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
  • The first pitch was an 88-mph changeup away, off the plate, surely a ball.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Martínez got ahead 0-2 and threw a changeup, his best pitch.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2022
  • With the changeup, being able to mix the offspeed in and out of the zone and the fastball on both sides of the plate.
    Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2018
  • Smith was looking for the changeup from Clarke, and got it.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2022
  • The focus this spring is on his health and his changeup.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • But with two outs and two on, David Dahl took a first-pitch changeup up in the zone for a strike.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 May 2021
  • When your best pitch is your changeup, less tends to be more.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 July 2025
  • Prager throws a fastball in the mid-to-low 90s, and also throws a changeup.
    Sam Blum, Dallas News, 15 June 2021
  • The Mets couldn’t pick up his slider and were fooled on his changeup.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
  • Six of his strikeouts were through his changeup, which the Mets (18-16) flailed at as the ball spun through the strike zone.
    Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
  • And then the changeup got better as the outing went along.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
  • Grosz is a stock right-hander with a good changeup and a 96-mph heater.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 July 2025
  • The changeup that has been the backbone of his breakout carried the day.
    Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2021
  • A lot of bloopers that fell in, just getting a piece of the changeup or this or that.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
  • Changing up the changeup is not all that Webb has changed up.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • There was just one blemish on the changeup’s pitch chart.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The Phillies also made sure to give him two fastballs, and hey, even his changeup rates well.
    Eno Sarris, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025

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