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
• 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
• But Lauer doesn’t have an elite spin rate on his fastball.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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 fastball and the splitter and the slider, that's really great to look down there and see.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• Ryan threw 14 pitches, 13 of them fastballs, to finish the game.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• Betts grounded out to third base in the first inning on a down-the-middle fastball.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• With one out in the sixth, Josh Naylor hit a high fastball for a double and stole third base.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 16 July 2023
• Meadows lined the fastball through the infield and into the gap in left-center field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2023
• In the 11th, Christian Walker chased a fastball inside and rolled one back to the pitcher.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• His fastball is as good as it's been during this stretch.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
• Then came heat: a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball, which Trout swung at and whiffed.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• Crawford got the count in his favor and lined a 3-1 fastball to the wall in right-center field clearing the bases.
  — Tim Booth, Chron, 7 May 2023
• Jake McCarthy hammered a one-out triple on a fastball Vesia left in.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Nick Pivetta struck out the side in the seventh armed with a fastball that averaged 96 m.p.h., a 2.1 m.p.h.
  — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• Madrigal stuck to his strength as a great high fastball hitter.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• The first Soler homer came on a fastball, a pitch that has been getting tattooed in Pfaadt’s two starts.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2023
• Leclerc said Stratton praised the fastball; Leclerc steeled himself to believe in it again.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• He’s used his sinker 28.8 percent of the time this season, which is more frequent than his fastball,.
  — Luke Scotchie, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Slater took a pair of sliders to get ahead in the count 2-0, but Anderson fought back into it with a pair of fastballs down and away to even the count.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The lefthander jumped on a 95-mile-per-hour fastball for an opposite-field homer over the Monster.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Bello’s first pitch was a fastball over the plate at 97 miles per hour that Guerrero sent over the wall in left-center field for his 23rd homer.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Lane also pitches and, as a sophomore, throws a fastball that can reach 90 mph.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2024
• Alvarez, the first batter to face Vasquez, ripped a fastball up the middle and into center field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Marlins started ace Sandy Alcantara, who has one of the fastest fastballs in baseball and is one of the best strike throwers in the league.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 13 May 2023
• The blast came on a fastball at the top of the strike zone from Rangers left-handed starter Andrew Heaney, which Mountcastle hit off the right field foul pole.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
• An error and a walk loaded the bases, and once again, Riggs reared back and fired his fastball for two more strikeouts.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2023
• Legumina, 25, is known for a sharp slider and a mid-90s fastball.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2022

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