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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
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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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