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cut fastball

noun

A pitch thrown with an offset grip and a moderate amount of added pressure by middle finger yielding a combination of backspin and some sidespin, resulting in motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher with velocity only slightly diminished from that of a fastball

  • His cut fastball tends to break bats.

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cut fastball.

It was a cut fastball, Pettitte said.

Think of a cut fastball with a far bigger break.

Hughes also throws a cut fastball, Rivera's signature pitch.

Koch struck out Jeter on a cut fastball.

His cut fastball breaks bats and backs off hitters.

"He lives with that hard, cut fastball," Franco said.

Rivera's cut fastball is not technically a cut fastball, at least not as it is usually thrown.

After all, how could performance-enhancing drugs improve her beloved Mariano's cut fastball?

Rivera cracked Thome's bat with a first-pitch cut fastball, producing a harmless infield pop.

His arsenal of pitches remains limited, with few exceptions, to one: the cut fastball.

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