Word: sinkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bobby couldn't throw much of a fastball, or a slider, or a knuckler, or a sinker -- but a change-up... Foster stood out there, and poised, waiting to pop like a firecracker. If Bobby could surprise him with a blooping, off-speed, curving ephus ball, he might just catch Foster off-balance. Anyway, the result could be no worse if Bobby pumped a mediocre fast ball right down the pipe...
...second frame brought four more scores, including a sinker from the right point by Schuster, a rising, fastball from the slot by Hozack and the first varsity goal for Randy Millen, last year's leading freshman scorer...
Wise will start in the third game in Cincinnati next Tuesday night, Johnson said. "He is a high-ball pitcher and should do better in their big ballpark and on their artificial turf. Cleveland is a sinker-ball pitcher and that causes a shaky situation...
...inches taller than Riggs, he will stick to the base line and try to keep the leggy Aussie running with his maddening array of precision placements, drop shots and lobs into the sun. "He'll serve like a pitcher in baseball," says Faunce, "using a curve, sinker, screwball, change-up and, when he needs it, the fastball." Adds Riggs: "She is going to see a couple of shots she hasn't seen before...
Chomsky said that Henry Kissinger '50 distorted the January Paris agreement on Vietnam and that even the sophisticated press like Newsweek "bought Kissinger's fabrications hook, line and sinker...