How to Use fastball in a Sentence

fastball

noun

• He struck him out with a fastball.
• The Rangers have seen the fastball up to 98 this spring.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
• The kid pitched from the stretch and fired a fastball 92 mph.
  — Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• Of the 98 pitches Rodón threw in the game, 37 were fastballs.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
• Need to get in on the guys with the fastball a little bit more.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2024
• Wade smoked the fastball on the inside of the plate into the seats in right.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2021
• Then, Will Smith jumped a 95-mph fastball from Snell to tie it in the eighth.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
• In a full count, a lot of kids will think the fastball is coming.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
• In a 2-and-1 count, Betts got a fastball over the heart of the plate and drove it deep to the right-center-field gap.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
• That doesn’t change the fact that Sheets squared up a fastball and sent it to right field at 107 mph.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025
• Kikuchi struck him out looking on a 98 mph fastball in the fifth.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2021
• Atlanta loaded the bases again in the third, but d'Arnaud struck out on a high fastball out of the zone.
  — Paul Newberry, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• The kid was battling, gets a fastball over the middle of the plate and hammered it.
  — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• But his 93rd pitch of the night was a 98-mph fastball blown by Nolan Gorman to end the inning.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2024
• Of the 84 pitches Greene threw, 59 were his four-seam fastball.
  — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• Video of the game against Colombia showed his fastball at 90-to-95 mph.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Nov. 2021
• Blue Jays: Bichette was hit on the left elbow guard by a 97 mph fastball but stayed in the game.
  — Steven Wine, sun-sentinel.com, 22 June 2021
• But on the eighth pitch, Rodriguez dotted the top of the strike zone with a 92 miles-per-hour fastball.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• But Lauer doesn’t have an elite spin rate on his fastball.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• His fastball was in the 97-99 mph range from the start of the game to when Maddon replaced him with Aaron Loup.
  — Dylan Hernándezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• One of those, a two-strike fastball in on his hands in his debut, was a hit.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Hendricks’ 3-2 fastball caught enough of the inside plate for Haniger to turn on it.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• The freshman with the low 90s fastball and hammer curve moved from mid-week starter to No.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 30 Apr. 2021
• Kwan hit a 94 mph fastball down the left field line for his 23rd double of the season.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
• In the second inning, Loftin hit a 92.5-mph fastball over the left-field wall.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2024
• The Tigers didn’t chase his fastball.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2026
• The Texas commit possesses a triple-digit fastball and has allowed only one hit this season.
  — Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
• Freeman’s home run against Sale in the sixth came on a 97-mph sidearm fastball and was his fourth of the season.
  — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
• Sheehan fired his fastballs from 94-96 mph in the first three innings, and six of his first eight outs were strikeouts.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
• So has his swing-and-miss on fastballs.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026