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breaking ball

/brey-king bawl/US // ˈbreɪ kɪŋ ˈbɔl //

突破球,断球,碎球,突破性球

Related Words

bender弯管机,折弯机,弯曲的,弯曲的人curve曲线,弧度,曲线图,弯道googly鹅卵石,鹅黄色的,鹅蛋形的,鹅蛋形slurve斜线,斜线型,斜线图,斜线式

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Baseball.

    • : any pitch in which the ball deviates from a straight path as it approaches the batter:If you’re not sure if it was a slider or a curve, just say it was a breaking ball.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incurve ball
Synonyms
captain hook钩机长,钩长,钩子队长,钩子船长bender弯管机,折弯机,弯曲的,弯曲的人bosey波西,波塞,玻色,玻色拉curve曲线,弧度,曲线图,弯道googly鹅卵石,鹅黄色的,鹅蛋形的,鹅蛋形hook ball钩球,钩子球,钩状球,勾股球slurve斜线,斜线型,斜线图,斜线式wrong'un

Examples

  • His fastball was just a tick down to start the game, but I thought he had some good breaking balls again, threw some good change-ups, battled.

  • In the process of traveling another foot, for example, a higher percentage of breaking balls could break out of the zone, increasing walks undesirably.

  • With the count 1-2, Bass threw a breaking ball that appeared to be headed to the upper inside corner of the strike zone.

  • He explained that Scherzer was having trouble getting his slider on lefties’ hands, so the curve was added as a gateway to throwing breaking balls across his body.

  • “We saw his background and he was a Bronx guy and we started breaking the case,” Boyce says.

  • Breaking the will of ISIS, the military argues, is not a statistic.

  • One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.

  • Instead of going for the hole, I hit the ball directly into the water.

  • There is only sand, a white ball, and a flag indicating the hole.

  • It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

  • Strive to speak or sing fluently without breaking the quality of tone used.

  • A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.

  • Say that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.

  • He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.

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