Faster access than browser!
75 relations: Aaron Cook (baseball), Al Leiter, Andy Pettitte, Arizona Diamondbacks, Aroldis Chapman, Baseball, Baseball field, Batted ball, Batting (baseball), Boston Red Sox, Bronson Arroyo, Bruce Sutter, Bryan Harvey, Chan Ho Park, Changeup, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chris Volstad, Clay Buchholz, Closer (baseball), Colloquialism, Colorado Rockies, Curveball, Cutter (baseball), Dan Haren, Depth perception, Derek Lowe, Dwight Gooden, Forkball, Four-seam fastball, Fred Breining, Gravity, Greg Maddux, Ground ball/fly ball ratio, Index finger, Jack Morris, Jamie Moyer, Jim Palmer, Joe Morgan, John McGraw, John Smoltz, Jonathan Papelbon, Justin Masterson, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Knuckleball, Magnus effect, Mariano Rivera, Masahiro Tanaka, Middle finger, Mike Scott (baseball), ..., New York Yankees, Nolan Ryan, Optical illusion, Pedro Martínez, Philadelphia Phillies, Pitch (baseball), Pitcher, Power pitcher, Roberto Hernández (starting pitcher), Roger Clemens, Roy Halladay, San Francisco Giants, Sandy Koufax, Screwball, Sid Fernandez, Slider, Softball, Split-finger fastball, St. Louis Cardinals, Strike zone, Submarine (baseball), Tim Hudson, Tom Seaver, Trevor Cahill, Two-seam fastball. Expand index (25 more) »
Aaron Cook (baseball)
Aaron Lane Cook (born February 8, 1979) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Aaron Cook (baseball) · See more »
Al Leiter
Alois "Al" Terry Leiter (born October 23, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed starting pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Al Leiter · See more »
Andy Pettitte
Andrew Eugene Pettitte (born June 15, 1972) is an American former baseball starting pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the New York Yankees.
New!!: Fastball and Andy Pettitte · See more »
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks, often shortened as the D-backs, are an American professional baseball franchise based in Phoenix, Arizona.
New!!: Fastball and Arizona Diamondbacks · See more »
Aroldis Chapman
Albertín Aroldis Chapman de la Cruz (born February 28, 1988) is a Cuban-American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).
New!!: Fastball and Aroldis Chapman · See more »
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.
New!!: Fastball and Baseball · See more »
Baseball field
A baseball field, also called a ball field, sandlot or a baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played.
New!!: Fastball and Baseball field · See more »
Batted ball
In baseball, a batted ball is any ball that, after a pitch, is contacted by the batter's bat.
New!!: Fastball and Batted ball · See more »
Batting (baseball)
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team.
New!!: Fastball and Batting (baseball) · See more »
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.
New!!: Fastball and Boston Red Sox · See more »
Bronson Arroyo
Bronson Anthony Arroyo (born February 24, 1977) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Bronson Arroyo · See more »
Bruce Sutter
Howard Bruce Sutter (born January 8, 1953) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Bruce Sutter · See more »
Bryan Harvey
Bryan Stanley Harvey (born June 2, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played from to for the California Angels of the American League and the Florida Marlins of the National League.
New!!: Fastball and Bryan Harvey · See more »
Chan Ho Park
Chan Ho Park (박찬호;; born June 30, 1973) is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Chan Ho Park · See more »
Changeup
A changeup is a type of pitch in baseball and fastpitch softball.
New!!: Fastball and Changeup · See more »
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
New!!: Fastball and Chicago Cubs · See more »
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
New!!: Fastball and Chicago White Sox · See more »
Chris Volstad
Christopher Kenneth Volstad (born September 23, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB).
New!!: Fastball and Chris Volstad · See more »
Clay Buchholz
Clay Daniel Buchholz (born August 14, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB).
New!!: Fastball and Clay Buchholz · See more »
Closer (baseball)
In baseball, a closing pitcher, more frequently referred to as a closer (abbreviated CL), is a relief pitcher who specializes in getting the final outs in a close game when his team is leading.
New!!: Fastball and Closer (baseball) · See more »
Colloquialism
Everyday language, everyday speech, common parlance, informal language, colloquial language, general parlance, or vernacular (but this has other meanings too), is the most used variety of a language, which is usually employed in conversation or other communication in informal situations.
New!!: Fastball and Colloquialism · See more »
Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver, Colorado.
New!!: Fastball and Colorado Rockies · See more »
Curveball
The curveball is a type of pitch in baseball thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball, causing it to dive in a downward path as it approaches the plate.
New!!: Fastball and Curveball · See more »
Cutter (baseball)
In baseball, a cutter, or fastball cutter, or cut fastball, is a type of fastball that breaks toward the pitcher's glove-hand side, as it reaches home plate.
New!!: Fastball and Cutter (baseball) · See more »
Dan Haren
Daniel John Haren (born September 17, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Dan Haren · See more »
Depth perception
Depth perception is the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D) and the distance of an object.
New!!: Fastball and Depth perception · See more »
Derek Lowe
Derek Christopher Lowe (born June 1, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Derek Lowe · See more »
Dwight Gooden
Dwight Eugene "Doc" Gooden (born November 16, 1964), nicknamed "Dr.
New!!: Fastball and Dwight Gooden · See more »
Forkball
The forkball is a type of pitch in baseball.
New!!: Fastball and Forkball · See more »
Four-seam fastball
A four-seam fastball, also called a rising fastball, a four-seamer, or a cross-seam fastball, is a pitch in baseball.
New!!: Fastball and Four-seam fastball · See more »
Fred Breining
Fred Breining (born November 15, 1955) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1980 through 1985 for the San Francisco Giants and the Montreal Expos.
New!!: Fastball and Fred Breining · See more »
Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
New!!: Fastball and Gravity · See more »
Greg Maddux
Gregory Alan Maddux (born April 14, 1966) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Greg Maddux · See more »
Ground ball/fly ball ratio
In baseball statistics, ground ball-fly ball ratio (denoted by G/F or GB/FB) is a measure of.
New!!: Fastball and Ground ball/fly ball ratio · See more »
Index finger
The index finger (also referred to as forefinger, first finger, pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, digitus II, and many other terms), is the first finger and the second digit of a human hand.
New!!: Fastball and Index finger · See more »
Jack Morris
John Scott Morris (born May 16, 1955) is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Jack Morris · See more »
Jamie Moyer
Jamie Moyer (born November 18, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Jamie Moyer · See more »
Jim Palmer
James Alvin Palmer (born October 15, 1945) is a retired American right-handed pitcher who played all of his 19 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Baltimore Orioles (1965–67, 1969–84) and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in.
New!!: Fastball and Jim Palmer · See more »
Joe Morgan
Joe Leonard Morgan (born September 19, 1943) is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984.
New!!: Fastball and Joe Morgan · See more »
John McGraw
John Joseph McGraw (April 7, 1873 – February 25, 1934), nicknamed "Little Napoleon" and "Mugsy", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player and manager of the New York Giants.
New!!: Fastball and John McGraw · See more »
John Smoltz
John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke," is an American former baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves.
New!!: Fastball and John Smoltz · See more »
Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Robert Papelbon (born November 23, 1980) is a former American professional baseball relief pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Jonathan Papelbon · See more »
Justin Masterson
Justin Daniel Masterson (born March 22, 1985) is a Jamaican-born American professional baseball starting pitcher who is a free agent.
New!!: Fastball and Justin Masterson · See more »
Kazuhiro Sasaki
Kazuhiro "Daimajin" Sasaki (佐々木 主浩 Sasaki Kazuhiro, born February 22, 1968 in Sendai City, Japan) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Kazuhiro Sasaki · See more »
Knuckleball
A knuckleball or knuckler is a baseball pitch thrown to minimize the spin of the ball in flight, causing an erratic, unpredictable motion.
New!!: Fastball and Knuckleball · See more »
Magnus effect
The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon that is commonly associated with a spinning object that drags air faster around one side, creating a difference in pressure that moves it in the direction of the lower-pressure side.
New!!: Fastball and Magnus effect · See more »
Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013.
New!!: Fastball and Mariano Rivera · See more »
Masahiro Tanaka
is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).
New!!: Fastball and Masahiro Tanaka · See more »
Middle finger
The middle finger, long finger, or tall finger is the third digit of the human hand, located between the index finger and the ring finger.
New!!: Fastball and Middle finger · See more »
Mike Scott (baseball)
Michael Warren Scott (born April 26, 1955) is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets and the Houston Astros.
New!!: Fastball and Mike Scott (baseball) · See more »
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
New!!: Fastball and New York Yankees · See more »
Nolan Ryan
Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr. (born January 31, 1947), nicknamed The Ryan Express, is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher and a previous chief executive officer (CEO) of the Texas Rangers.
New!!: Fastball and Nolan Ryan · See more »
Optical illusion
An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that (loosely said) appears to differ from reality.
New!!: Fastball and Optical illusion · See more »
Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican–American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five teams from 1992 to 2009, most notably the Boston Red Sox from 1998 to 2004.
New!!: Fastball and Pedro Martínez · See more »
Philadelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
New!!: Fastball and Philadelphia Phillies · See more »
Pitch (baseball)
In baseball, a pitch is the act of throwing a baseball toward home plate to start a play.
New!!: Fastball and Pitch (baseball) · See more »
Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.
New!!: Fastball and Pitcher · See more »
Power pitcher
Power pitcher is a term in baseball for a pitcher who relies on the velocity of his pitches, sometimes at the expense of accuracy.
New!!: Fastball and Power pitcher · See more »
Roberto Hernández (starting pitcher)
Roberto Heredia Hernández (born August 30, 1980), ESPN.com is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Roberto Hernández (starting pitcher) · See more »
Roger Clemens
William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962), nicknamed "Rocket", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four teams.
New!!: Fastball and Roger Clemens · See more »
Roy Halladay
Harry Leroy Halladay III (May 14, 1977 – November 7, 2017), known commonly as Roy Halladay and often nicknamed "Doc", was an American professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 and 2013.
New!!: Fastball and Roy Halladay · See more »
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.
New!!: Fastball and San Francisco Giants · See more »
Sandy Koufax
Sanford Koufax (born Sanford Braun; December 30, 1935) is a former American Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Sandy Koufax · See more »
Screwball
A screwball is a baseball and fastpitch softball pitch that is thrown so as to break in the opposite direction of a slider or curveball.
New!!: Fastball and Screwball · See more »
Sid Fernandez
Charles Sidney Fernandez (born October 12, 1962) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher from to.
New!!: Fastball and Sid Fernandez · See more »
Slider
In baseball, a slider is a breaking ball pitch that tails laterally and down through the batter's hitting zone; it is thrown with less speed than a fastball but greater than the pitcher's curveball.
New!!: Fastball and Slider · See more »
Softball
Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball (11 in. to 12 in. sized ball) on a smaller field.
New!!: Fastball and Softball · See more »
Split-finger fastball
A split-finger fastball or splitter is a pitch in baseball derived from the forkball.
New!!: Fastball and Split-finger fastball · See more »
St. Louis Cardinals
The St.
New!!: Fastball and St. Louis Cardinals · See more »
Strike zone
In baseball, the strike zone is the volume of space through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike, if the batter does not swing.
New!!: Fastball and Strike zone · See more »
Submarine (baseball)
In baseball, a submarine pitch is one in which the ball is released often just above the ground, but not underhanded, with the torso bent at a right angle and shoulders tilted so severely that they rotate around a nearly horizontal axis.
New!!: Fastball and Submarine (baseball) · See more »
Tim Hudson
Timothy Adam Hudson (born July 14, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher of Major League Baseball (MLB).
New!!: Fastball and Tim Hudson · See more »
Tom Seaver
George Thomas Seaver (born November 17, 1944), nicknamed Tom Terrific and The Franchise, is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher.
New!!: Fastball and Tom Seaver · See more »
Trevor Cahill
Trevor John Cahill (born March 1, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB).
New!!: Fastball and Trevor Cahill · See more »
Two-seam fastball
A two-seam fastball is a pitch in baseball and a variant of the straight fastball.
New!!: Fastball and Two-seam fastball · See more »
Redirects here:
Fast ball, Fastballs, Rising fastball, Two-seam.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastball
