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
• In fairness, Phillies lefty starter Cristopher Sánchez’s changeup is too good for most big leaguers.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
• The backbreaker, though, was the two-run shot surrendered to Taylor Trammell, who has two homers on the season, on an 82 mph changeup that sat in the middle of the zone.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025