Sentence examples for to sidearm from inspiring English sources
verb
To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
He has changed his delivery from overhand to sidearm and flourished.
I tried lowering my cast, from overhand to a three-quarter angle and finally to sidearm, but even my sleek, new, nine-weight graphite rod was no match for it.
Some pitchers throw more overhand throwing a curveball or dip to sidearm while throwing a slider.
If you're not fighting someone, switch to your sidearm to sprint.
Rusch sometimes drops to a sidearm delivery against left-handers to vary his look, and he did so on this pitch.
Over the course of the season, he converted to a sidearm pitching delivery, which led to three victories in a row for him.
He dropped to a sidearm angle for his one strikeout, getting Raul Mondesi to fan at a slider.
"I never wanted to go into baseball retirement without having the opportunity to throw sidearm," Nitkowski said.
But Jones dropped to a sidearm delivery with two strikes, and Lowell bounced a breaking ball to first for the final out. Lee doubled off the left-field wall to open the fifth, then advanced to second when Alex Gonzalez bunted for a single.
Hershiser struck out Dale Murphy four times, once resorting to a rare sidearm curveball to do so, to the dismay of pitching coach Ron Perranoski, who worried about injuries caused by sidearm pitching.
The country music singer GARTH BROOKS struck out in his first at-bat of camp, fanning on a fastball from St . Louisreliever JIM DOUGHERTY, who dropped to a sidearm delivery for the pitch.
