Word: slider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brunnig faced 30 batters—two more than Yale’s Josh Sowers, who had a much tougher time in the end and surrendered seven runs—but walked the tightrope with an effective fastball, slider and changeup and a splitter that Brunnig unveiled for the first time in game action...
...much less concerned with the view of a very sluggish doubleheader than they are with the speed of the ball coming off one guy’s hand—in this case, the right hand of Cornell junior Chris Schutt, a genuine prospect with a vicious slider that kept Harvard hitless for the better part of the second game...
...sunny for once—and other kids they’ve seen, and discuss the player of interest. “He’s got great breaking stuff,” one says to about five others. “He’s got that slider and another pitch that’s neither here nor there...When he’s got those going right, he’s something.” There aren’t many trade secrets when it comes to what’s in plain view...
...second inning, by contrast, was a pain in the neck. At Columbia last week, Self had success mixing a slider and a changeup into his arsenal. He didn’t get to use those pitches much yesterday, as his control problems put him behind early in most of his counts...
...early for us to start looking at the gun machine, but we’ve been getting 90 [miles per hour] readings on the kid, and that’s a magic number,” Walsh says. “He’s got a pretty nasty slider to go with it, and he developed his change as the season went along last year. He’s a three-pitch pitcher coming out of the bullpen...