Synonyms for fastball
ˈfæstˌbɔl, ˈfɑst-fast·ball

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1. fastballnoun

   Synonyms:
   hummer

2. fastballnoun

   Any of the variations of high speed pitches thrown in baseball

   Synonyms:
   hummer

3. fastballnoun

   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

   The pitcher had a blazing fastball.

   Synonyms:
   hummer

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1. fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bulletnoun

   (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

   "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"

   Synonyms:
   warmer, gage, skunk, smoke, roll of tobacco, weed, dope, fume, bullet, sess, slug, green goddess, hummer, locoweed, smoking, bullet train, grass, pot, sens, heater

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1. Joe Maddon:

   Man, once he really gains even better command of the fastball and we get him stretched out a bit, pitching on a more consistent basis, I could see him going 100 pitches strong.

2. Mitch Haniger:

   On deck I was just kind of rehearsing what I wanted to get from him. I was looking for a fastball and just see myself have success and then you get that feeling that I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna come through and it happened, i was just pumped up.

3. Daniel Vogelbach:

   You have to give credit where credit is due, that’s two games in a row that he’s made it real tough on us. He has a really good fastball and he throws a curveball for a strike when he wants to. He’s just a guy in a groove right now who’s doing what he wants on the mound.

4. Branden Pinder:

   It was a fastball inside, it just cut on me a little bit. I would have liked to get it a little more inside.

5. Tommy John:

   I felt pretty good about my fastball today and I was throwing it a lot. Towards the end, I got a little tired because of that.