How to Use forkball in a Sentence

forkball

noun

• Sasaki’s overall success played off his ability to vary speeds between his fastball and forkball.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• Hitters still struggled to hit the forkball last season, but hit his sweeper and sinker hard, and to a lesser extent, his cutter as well.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
• Only one more batter reached base over Sasaki’s four innings — Sasaki hit him with a forkball that got away from him.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• For Senga, that means holding his fastball velocity and letting his forkball play off his heater.
  — Will Sammon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
• Sitting between 90 and 91 mph, his splitter was almost six mph faster than his bread-and-butter forkball.
  — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• His move to a harder splitter in favor of the forkball has given him more in-zone options and pushed his strikeout minus walk rate from terrible to elite in a four-start stretch.
  — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• Still, given the diminished velocity on his fastball and spin on his forkball since coming stateside, the concept is worth exploring.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• Armed with a new, higher-velocity version of his splitter/forkball, Sasaki has given the Dodgers enough signs of progress to stay in their rotation.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
• Thanks to a slight grip change from McGuiness, Sasaki essentially turned his forkball into more of a traditional splitter.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 18 May 2026
• Lawrence Butler rolled over on a forkball, which should have been a double play, but Lindor failed to get into position and second baseman Marcus Semien had to field it himself.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
• Pitching in relief allows Senga to capitalize on his best pitches, his fastball and forkball, without having to think too much about using all of his other pitches to sequence against hitters three times through the order.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
• Midway through April, Sasaki approached pitching coaches Mark Prior and Connor McGuiness and suggested making a tweak to his forkball.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 18 May 2026