curveball in English

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a pitch thrown with a strong downward spin, causing the ball to drop suddenly and veer to the side as it approaches home plate.
The statistics don't reflect, for instance, how many times pitchers plunk batters with changeups, curveballs or other off-speed pitches, or how much effort a hitter makes to get out of the way.
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1. Curveball synonyms, Curveball pronunciation, Curveball translation, English dictionary definition of Curveball

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3. Listen, dad threw us a curveball.

4. Curveball reads like an investigative spy thriller

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7. The Curveball might be baseball's most beautiful pitch

8. By all accounts, he had a wicked curveball.

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10. The spin of a Curveball moves in the opposite direction

11. So what's the secret to a good Curveball? Let's take a closer look at how to grip and throw the Curveball Image source: baseball-pitching-tips.com

12. Curveball, Phish’s eleventh festival and the first to be named Curveball, will take place August 17-19, 2018 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, NY

13. ‘His Curveball came, though, in the form of a severed Achilles tendon that ended his dreams of making the majors.’ ‘Getting back on track after a slight Curveball is what's important.’ ‘Then came another Curveball in 1992: She developed cancer.’

14. The ChainOfFools/Curveball CVE-2020-0601 threat? Not so much

15. Curveball is a natural interview host and his voice is so smooth

16. Definition of Curveball : a slow or moderately fast baseball pitch thrown with spin to make it swerve downward and usually to the left when thrown from the right hand or to the right when thrown from the left hand Other Words from Curveball Example Sentences Learn More about Curveball

17. Curveball max flash duration increased 0.8 >>> 1.1 seconds The flash duration is short given how quickly he can get his Curveball out on an enemy caught out of position

18. Round one of Hollywood Week ended with a standing ovation and a Curveball

19. Blindside's blinding effect follows the same rules as Breach's Flashpoint, Phoenix's Curveball & Skye's

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21. Major League Baseball player Gregg Olson teaches you how to throw a Curveball.

22. It doesn't hurt that Glasnow's Curveball is a beauty to watch, either: The best-kept secret

23. Curveball says he helped assemble a germ-production unit on trucks at Djerf al Nadaf

24. 5 Stars! Living the Dream and the host Curveball Curtis will bring fresh content every episode

25. A Curveball is a breaking pitch that has more movement than just about any other pitch

26. Curveball was never the catalyst but merely a footnote in the administration’s foregone plan to invade Iraq

27. A Curveball is a unique pitch, in that the ball exhibits two distinct types of motions

28. This spin causes a Curveball to "break," or drop down and sweep horizontally as it

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30. Curveball definition, a pitch with a downward spin that causes the ball to drop and veer as it approaches home plate, away from the side from which it was thrown: He started perfecting his Curveball during his junior year in high school

31. The judges threw the Curveball by announcing they would be pairing contestants for the Duets round (usually they pair-up

32. The Curveball is a breaking pitch in baseball thrown with a grip and hand movement that imparts down spin to the ball.

33. The Iraqi defector Rafid al-Janabi codenamed Curveball, who falsely claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction</a>, admitted …

34. When executed correctly by a pitcher, a batter expecting a fastball will swing too early and over the top of the Curveball.

35. The harder a Curveball is thrown, the better, as it makes the break appear more sudden and forces a hitter to decide to swing (or not) sooner

36. The Curveball Affair by John Prados On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell made a dramatic presentation before the United Nations Security Council, detailing a U.S

37. An Iraqi defector who went by the codename “Curveball” has publicly admitted for the first time that he made up stories about mobile bioweapons trucks and secret factories to try to bring down

38. Curveball tells the grotesque, at times even surreal, true story of how the Iraq war was started based on nothing but fake intelligence and the involvement of the German government and the German secret service.

39. A Curveball will also have a significantly different movement profile relative to a player’s FB, as most pitchers will throw it 10 to 15 mph slower than their heater, with about 25 inches of vertical separation

40. Bouton had thrown a number of pitches in the minor leagues, including the knuckleball, but it was a conversation with Johnny Sain in 1961 that turned him into more of a traditional fastball-curveball pitcher

41. A Curveball (aka curve, hook, yakker, Uncle Charlie and The Hammer) is a breaking ball with less speed and more movement than a slider.A curve is thrown with the forearm rotated 90° inward, and often, though not always, with a deliberate snap of the wrist as the ball is released.

42. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi (Arabic: رافد أحمد علوان الجنابي ‎, Rāfid Aḥmad Alwān; born 1968), known by the Defense Intelligence Agency cryptonym "Curveball", is a German citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.