fastball
noun
fast·ball
ˈfas(t)-ˌbȯl 
: a baseball pitch thrown at full speed and often appearing to rise slightly as it nears the plate
Examples of fastball in a Sentence
He struck him out with a fastball.
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Anderson, who looked bad on the first two pitches of the at-bat, hit a fastball that found the gap in right-center field for a triple that drove in two and staked Smyth to the lead.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
Reliever Joe Kelly pitched a scoreless seventh for the Dodgers, but Acuña clobbered a full-count, up-and-away fastball from Daniel Hudson over the left-field wall for a solo homer that tied the score 2-2 in the eighth.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
Reliever Joe Kelly pitched a scoreless seventh for the Dodgers, but Acuña clobbered a full-count, up-and-away fastball from Daniel Hudson over the left-field wall for a solo homer that tied the score 2-2 in the eighth.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
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“Fastball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fastball. Accessed 9 May. 2024.
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fastball
noun
fast·ball
ˈfas(t)-ˌbȯl
: a baseball pitch thrown at full speed
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