Sentence examples for trick pitches from inspiring English sources

Deception, overpowering speed and trick pitches can all come later -- they should, anyway -- and the pitcher will be left to concentrate on the basic task of finding the plate.

Friendly enough, but in the book Peterson tells of how Ford doctored the ball to make trick pitches and how Ford warned Peterson not to send Christmas cards to his teammates until he was on the Yankees for at least five years.

Griffith encouraged him to do so, believing that developing these trick pitches would allow him to become a great pitcher, and as a result, he practiced these pitches until, according to one sportswriter, "he was so wild he couldn't hit the grand stand".

"They didn't see the knuckleball as a trick pitch; they didn't see it as some kind of illegitimate weapon that isn't worthy," Dickey said.

Wakefield had told Cliburn, his first manager, he would never make it to the majors as a hitter, so he happily agreed to undergo a drastic makeover to try to master a trick pitch.

"It almost falls into the trick-pitch category.

Who could use the Andersson trick of pitch-shifting their voice down until it sounds like a scary male butler?

Updated at 11.32pm GMT 11.29pm GMT Wicket!! Rutherford c Cook b Finn 37 Two-card trick, Finn pitched one up that invited the drive and Rutherford went for it and missed.

In the other room, Ira Rubin (South) immediately cashed three club tricks to pitch his losing diamond.

In Sound Uncovered, for example, an experiment titled "Find the Highest Note" challenges the user to find the highest note, playing tricks with pitch and volume.

It was like a tenor becoming a baritone, with a new range and depth and a new attention to feeling, but the old skills and tricks with pitch and paradox still in place, despite his circumstances, or perhaps because of them.