How to Use fastball in a Sentence

fastball

noun

• He struck him out with a fastball.
• The Rangers have seen the fastball up to 98 this spring.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Of the 98 pitches Rodón threw in the game, 37 were fastballs.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
• Need to get in on the guys with the fastball a little bit more.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2024
• In a full count, a lot of kids will think the fastball is coming.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
• Atlanta loaded the bases again in the third, but d'Arnaud struck out on a high fastball out of the zone.
  — Paul Newberry, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• The kid was battling, gets a fastball over the middle of the plate and hammered it.
  — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• But his 93rd pitch of the night was a 98-mph fastball blown by Nolan Gorman to end the inning.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2024
• But Lauer doesn’t have an elite spin rate on his fastball.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• One of those, a two-strike fastball in on his hands in his debut, was a hit.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Hendricks’ 3-2 fastball caught enough of the inside plate for Haniger to turn on it.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• Kwan hit a 94 mph fastball down the left field line for his 23rd double of the season.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
• In the second inning, Loftin hit a 92.5-mph fastball over the left-field wall.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2024
• Bieber’s 3-2 pitch was a fastball over the plate that Stanton sliced over the right field wall for a two-run blast.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• The fastball and the splitter and the slider, that's really great to look down there and see.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• Ryan threw 14 pitches, 13 of them fastballs, to finish the game.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• But for the Patriots to have any chance, the passing game, not the run game, needs to be their fastball.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• Betts grounded out to third base in the first inning on a down-the-middle fastball.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• With one out in the sixth, Josh Naylor hit a high fastball for a double and stole third base.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 16 July 2023
• Hill is a 6-foot-4 left hander with a fastball in the low 90s, a curveball, a slider and a change up.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024
• Meadows lined the fastball through the infield and into the gap in left-center field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2023
• Andrus’ solo homer came on a 2-0 fastball in the fifth.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• In the 11th, Christian Walker chased a fastball inside and rolled one back to the pitcher.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• His fastball is as good as it's been during this stretch.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
• Then came heat: a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball, which Trout swung at and whiffed.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• Almonte instead threw a pitch, pulling a fastball just off the plate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• The direct cause of Cole's anger was a close 98-mph 1-2 fastball to Alex Verdugo, who took it low for a ball.
  — Pete Caldera, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
• McCormick drove a fastball 335 feet to the opposite field, and the ball hit the right-field short porch and bounced into the seats.
  — Ronald Blum | Baseball Writer, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
• Jorge Polanco drilled a 1-0 fastball for a double off the right-center field wall that was nearly a home run.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
• These changes were meant to put him in a better position to hit high-velocity fastballs and adjust to breaking balls while keeping his large leg kick.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024