How to Use curveball in a Sentence

curveball

noun

• The batter struck out on a curveball.
• Farmer was called out on strikes, frozen by a curveball.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2021
• So on his own, Syndergaard decided to scrap his curveball for now as well.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• Clay Holmes entered and hit Max Muncy with a 2-0 curveball.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
• Raley followed with a curveball that got a swing-through and another that bounced for a 1-2 count.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• Those are great numbers, but there’s a visual that works just as well: The greatest curveball ever thrown.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021
• Bases loaded, two outs, full count and Buehler had struck out Francisco Lindor with … a curveball?
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• On an 0-2 count, Manaea threw a curveball that stayed up in Kyle Seager’s hitting zone.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2021
• His catcher, Haase, received the curveball and threw out Hunter Dozier trying to steal second base.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2021
• At last night’s Met gala, though, Rodrigo went for something of a curveball, landing far outside of her usual style repertoire.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2021
• The pitch, a curveball, wound up in the zone, but Kelly was apparently expecting a fastball and the confusion likely led to the pitch being called a ball.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2021
• Gavin Sheets struck out swinging on a 94 mph fastball, Engel lined out to center field and Leury Garcia struck out swinging on a filthy curveball.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
• Michael Fulmer then entered and recorded the third out by striking out Andrew Benintendi swinging with his refined curveball.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2021
• The one-two pitch on the way: curveball, tapped foul off to the left of the plate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The truth is, any time of the year can throw me a migraine curveball.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 11 Mar. 2022
• The first curveball of the sequence was well outside to run the count full.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• More of those curveballs Neville talked about loom on the horizon.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• That seems to me to set up for a curveball or two early.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2024
• Urquidy’s first pitch to Trout that day at Minute Maid Park was a curveball.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• Reyes turned on a 1-and-1 curveball, sending it over the wall in left field.
  — Tim Withers, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2022
• How Cole Kmet hit a curveball in the Chicago Bears’ blowout win.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2024
• With two on and one out, Mantiply tried to go down and away with a 1-2 curveball.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2022
• Jefferies tried a curveball and a 96 mph sinker that missed.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
• In the first inning, Stephenson hit a first pitch curveball to drive in a run.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
• But baseball can be a fickle game, and the fates can spin faster than the best curveball.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2021
• Janet Dunne made peace a long time ago with the awful curveball life threw her in 1968.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• And his curveball/changeup mix might be the best mix of secondary stuff in the system.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• With his 98th pitch, a curveball in the dirt, Snell ended the sixth inning with his 10th strikeout of the game.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Watching Tebow try to hit Triple A curveballs was more fun than this.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• In the 10th, Ketel Marte struck out looking on a curveball that appeared to miss the bottom of the zone.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024