| He also mixes in a curveball, another offspeed pitch he regularly throws for strikes. |
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| My fastball was unhittable, my changeup was devastating, and my curveball dropped off the face of the earth. |
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| He has stopped relying so heavily on his fastball and has begun to use his curveball and changeup as his primary pitches. |
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| Snyder thinks he's snapping his curveball off too hard and that's causing him to rush his delivery. |
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| His main breaking pitch is a slider, but he mixes in a curveball on occasion. |
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| His side sessions have revealed the same, old life on his curveball, slider and split-finger pitch. |
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| His most successful pitch has been a slow curveball that has been especially tough on right-handed hitters. |
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| Now that his back is feeling better, Estes is better able to locate his pitches, particularly his curveball. |
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| In Webb's case, it may be easier for him to develop his overhand curveball into a high-quality pitch. |
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| He is mixing his pitches better and throwing his curveball, a pitch he abandoned during the first two months. |
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| He wasn't getting the same snap on his curveball, and his control wasn't sharp. |
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| I knew Jimmy had to go with the curveball for the tenth pitch of the at-bat. |
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| But as has happened so often in O'Neal's life, she got hit with a curveball. |
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| His curveball came, though, in the form of a severed Achilles tendon that ended his dreams of making the majors. |
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| The ocean always seemed to bring her a sense of calmness and happiness whenever life threw her a curveball. |
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| Just when you think you know what life has in store for you, it throws you a curveball. |
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| Just know that this won't be the last time Mother Nature throws us a curveball. |
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| You pride yourself on being ready for every sartorial curveball life throws you. |
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| Honel threw a major-league fastball and curveball in the strike zone and Snyder looked foolish. |
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| There is no question that his pitches must further improve, because my guess is the right-hander has the tendency to hang his curveball. |
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| His sharp-breaking curveball fooled hitters in early batting practice sessions. |
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| Whenever you think you're on easy street, the universe always seems to throw you a curveball. |
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| Sauveur throws a fastball, knuckleball, curveball and cutter, and he changes speeds with all of them. |
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| He was able to get his curveball over and was in control with his slider and changeup. |
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| Beckett throws in the mid-90s and has a big breaking curveball that is almost unhittable. |
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| When Sele has good command of his pitches, particularly his curveball, he can be nearly unhittable. |
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| He's a bulldog competitor, but the key to his success is confidence in a spike curveball. |
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| So of course, that was precisely when the gods of fate decided to throw her a curveball. |
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| A fastball, if not overthrown, is much easier on a pitcher's arm than a curveball or a splitter. |
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| A loop, when executed properly can curve in the air as a curveball does in baseball. |
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| We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. |
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| Francis and Garland are both sinkerballers who throw a big curveball. |
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| Planning ahead is a great strategy... until life throws you a curveball. |
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| In his simulated game, his pitches were down and his curveball had bite. |
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| Getting back on track after a slight curveball is what's important. |
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| When you think that the technique has reached its peak, along comes a curveball in the shape of two CDs that are another landmark in the field of electronic music. |
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| With two strikes, Beltran watched Adam Wainwright's mesmerizing curveball tumble into the bottom of the zone. |
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| The American baseball player, Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, was known as much for mangling the English language as hitting a curveball. |
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| Trying to stick too rigidly to a plan can also mean that if life throws you a curveball, it can knock you sideways. |
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| The system identifies and displays the difference between a slider, curveball, forkball or fastball. |
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| Wells can hit 97 miles per hour with his fastball and also throws a curveball, slider, and a forkball. |
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| Nominally about Charlie's preparation for a high-stakes national spelling bee, the film is less concerned with plot than with message: that when life throws a curveball, one should brush off disappointment and try again. |
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| Scientists at NASA assumed a good curveball spins at 30 RPS, but Marinelli's invention proved them wrong. |
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| The Angels like how his big curveball and decent fastball could play against opposing lefties. |
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| I'm hoping that readers of this column yearn similarly for the answers to trivia, because I have a curveball or two of my own. |
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| By following these guidelines, you'll hit any curveball question right out of the park. |
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| The system will identify and display the difference between a slider, curveball, forkball or fastball. |
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| In 2013, for example, the Houston Astros employed an analysis based on the TrackMan system to acquire an unaccomplished pitcher called Collin McHugh, because of his fast-spinning curveball. |
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| Billingsley used his curveball again to strike out Bautista and work out off what could have been a mess. |
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| So I needed a curveball and I also wanted to throw a fastball to that side, like a cut fastball. |
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| He's got a great fastball and he mixes in a great curveball. |
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| Australia rang me out of the blue and that threw a little curveball. |
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| His nasty curveball accounted for six of the eight punch-outs. |
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| Mine drops...like a curveball thrown over-handed by a left-hander. |
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