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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Baseball plays, All articles with style issues, Baseball pitches
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fastball  heater  smoke  hummer  bullet
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(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity WordNet 3.0
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(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball. Wikipedia
Nickname for the baseball pitch Wikipedia Disambiguation
Type of pitch in baseball Wikidata
A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers. Wiktionary
A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity. Wiktionary
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He showed batters nothing but smoke WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
He swung late on the fastball WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Jones threw a heater under his chin. Wiktionary
The pitcher had a blazing fastball. Wiktionary
IS A
pitch
HAS KIND
slider
sinker
two-seam fastball
four-seam fastball
cut fastball
CATEGORY DOMAIN
baseball
SPORT
baseball
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet
Wikipedia
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fastball
Wikidata
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fastball
Wiktionary
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fastball, heater
Wikipedia Redirections
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fast ball, fastballs, rising fastball, two-seam

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