Afterward, Waits said, "You don't see a sinker like that very often".
"I don't have a sinker like Mike Hampton, where I know that start after start, I can get ground balls off it".
Coffey pitched Friday night, and some Mets had noticed that he liked to start at-bats with a sinker down and away.
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He was inventive yesterday, striking out Ray Durham on a sinker that dropped like a splitter, but he also has held back from throwing his knuckle-curve, using it only a couple of times.
Coghlan does not like to see much movement, Hefner said, so he tried to throw him a sinker with plenty of break.
"The home run to Gutiérrez was supposed to be a sinker away, and it almost looked like a cutter.
"It was a sinker," Byrd said.
Jeter swung over a sinker, bounced out to short.
A sinker to me might mean something different to them.
