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  2. Two-seam fastball - Wikipedia

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    The grip used for a two-seam fastball. A two-seam fastball is a pitch in baseball and softball.It is a variant of the straight fastball.The pitch has the speed of a fastball and can also include late-breaking action caused by varying the pressure of the index and middle fingers on the ball.

  3. Fastball - Wikipedia

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    The sinker, synonymous with the two-seam fastball, two-seamer, tailing fastball, or running fastball is a type of fastball thrown with a seam orientation that induces more downward or arm-side horizontal movement compared to four-seam fastballs or cutters. Historically, distinctions have been made between these terms, but today, they are all ...

  4. Glossary of American football terms - Wikipedia

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    A surface in space marked by a structure of two upright posts 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet apart (23 + 1 ⁄ 3 in high school football) extending above a horizontal crossbar the top edge of which is ten feet off the ground. The goal is the surface above the bar and between the lines of the inner edges of the posts, extending infinitely upward, centered ...

  5. Here's what happened when the Detroit Tigers' first-round ...

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    Good athlete, good delivery, good strike thrower, and the fastball, we saw power to the fastball." Schiefelbein has a two-seam fastball, a spike curveball, a circle change, a slider and a cutter.

  6. Varland wins spot in Twins rotation after teammate's injury - AOL

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    He's developing a two-seam fastball, though he's barely thrown it in Grapefruit League games. The Twins, like all teams, don't place much weight on spring training statistics, but Varland made it ...

  7. Tommy Kahnle looks to refine a new pitch as he works his way ...

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    “At the end of last year, I started throwing it,’’ Kahnle said of the two-seamer, a pitch he used to strike out Alex Verdugo to end a mid-September 2023 game at Fenway Park.

  8. Shuuto - Wikipedia

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    The two-seam fastball, the sinker, and the screwball, in differing degrees, move down and in towards a right-handed batter when thrown, or in the opposite manner of a curveball and a slider. The shuuto is often confused with the gyroball, perhaps because of an article by Will Carroll [4] that erroneously equated the two pitches. Although ...

  9. Identifying baseball pitch types in 2023: A modern ... - AOL

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    What is a cutter? A dart. Hitting the fairway on a dogleg hole. The slider-fastball midpoint. What does it look like? A cutter is a fastball with a hint of a slider’s bite.