off-speed pitch

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Noun

off-speed pitch - a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball

change-of-pace, change-of-pace ball, change-up

pitch, delivery - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

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"One thing I wanted to work on is throwing a good off-speed pitch, that is something I wanted to have in my arsenal.

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Newburyport, which topped Kingston earlier in the day with a walk-off win to reach the final, took a 2-1 lead in the fifth when Tyler Chaisson and Rosario Missiti hit RBI singles off Avery, but the right-hander struck out Dan Rose with an off-speed pitch to strand two.

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Both switch hitters, both can handle the off-speed pitch. Only difference is Sarkon was drafted out of high school and Ruse'll be lucky to get a decent D-III school to look at him."

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You can fool a hitter once with an off-speed pitch, but if you come back to it, you'll get hurt.

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Gonzalez lined a 3-and-1 off-speed pitch into centre field, driving in Justin Turner and extending the Dodgers' lead to 7-4.

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The first two strikes were fastballs, the last a nasty off-speed pitch.

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"I was really just looking for an off-speed pitch to drive the other way," Eureste said.

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The Ducks then went down quietly in the bottom of the 10th, with UW reliever Jeff Brigham striking out Serna looking at an off-speed pitch to end it.