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
  • The kid pitched from the stretch and fired a fastball 92 mph.
    — Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Video of the game against Colombia showed his fastball at 90-to-95 mph.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But on the eighth pitch, Rodriguez dotted the top of the strike zone with a 92 miles-per-hour fastball.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But Lauer doesn’t have an elite spin rate on his fastball.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • His fastball was in the 97-99 mph range from the start of the game to when Maddon replaced him with Aaron Loup.
    — Dylan Hernándezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Garcia had Mahle move his fastball all around the strike zone.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 15 June 2022
  • His fastball, once elite, lost some of its zip and much of its late movement.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Smith led off Texas’ first with a double and Semien sent a fastball for a two-run homer.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2022
  • The 21-year-old is now fully healthy again and his fastball is back up into the high 90s.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The fastball command, both sides of the plate, hits the low dart, the split down below that, stealing the strike with the breaking ball.
    — Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The slider is my good ‘out’ pitch and my fastball always lives.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In his second at-bat in the major leagues, Joey Gallo crushed a 92-mph fastball that Jeff Samardzija had left over the plate.
    — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025

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