Sentence examples for loses velocity from inspiring English sources

When a ball cuts, it loses velocity.

Normally, Thole said, Niese loses velocity on his fastball later in games.

That is part of the reason Palmer believes that Mussina -- who will be 37 in the last year of the contract he signed yesterday -- will age well, and continue to be effective as he loses velocity and the sharpness off his breaking pitches.

One mode is simply caused by a low-level signal that cannot expand over a far distance and, thus, settles when it loses velocity.

In the other mode of the velocity-loss mechanism, an expanding signal is repulsed by another signal located nearby and, thus, loses velocity; I refer to this as the repulsive velocity-loss mechanism.

A pitcher will lose velocity, Moyer reasoned, but not his knowledge.

That injury affected Marino's throwing arm, and he lost velocity on his throws as a result.

Phil Hughes, the other, spent three months this season on the disabled list after mysteriously losing velocity on his fastball.

His command wasn't always precise, and he temporarily lost velocity when he encountered elbow and shoulder problems.

Moyer, who relies on guile and finesse, has joked that he does not have to worry about losing velocity off his fastball.

He said he lost velocity because he was not generating power with his back leg after surgery on his left ankle in 2000.