Examples of 'knuckleball' in a sentence

Meaning of "knuckleball"

Knuckleball is a type of pitch in baseball that is thrown with minimal spin, resulting in erratic movement.
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  • A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
  • An event that is hard to predict.
  • To pitch knuckleballs.

How to use "knuckleball" in a sentence

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It can be a result of a knuckleball shot or a straight curie.
Knuckleball in baseball is sometimes called floater.
The origins of the knuckleball are unclear.
Your knuckleball is perhaps a very powerful machine gun.
This modern pitch type is unrelated to the knuckleball.
Not every knuckleball shot is a deadball.
If she could only throw a knuckleball.
The knuckleball does provide some advantages to its practitioners.
I just hope he learns how to catch the knuckleball.
He became strictly a knuckleball pitcher when his speed declined.
I am working on my knuckleball.
It was a knuckleball from a knucklehead.
A nerd with a knuckleball.
Knuckleball master rescues Niekro.
I hate that knuckleball.

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Not sure I would do anything different other than learn a knuckleball.
He had this knuckleball.
Based on the same aerodynamic principles as baseball 's knuckleball.
Master of knuckleball.
The delivery was adopted from baseball 's knuckleball.
The physics that make a knuckleball so difficult to hit make it similarly difficult to catch.
You know how to throw Try a knuckleball.
Did that last knuckleball flutter just past the sweet spot?
There is an excellent documentary currently on Netflix called Knuckleball that I recommend to all.
Daley was a knuckleball pitcher . who threw curves of two different speeds.
Mom says I get my knuckleball from her.
Later in his career, he developed and threw a knuckleball.
On occasion, teams have traded knuckleball pitchers and their catchers in the same transaction.
You know, this may affect my knuckleball.
The ball appears to tumble in a knuckleball-like fashion; but it is much faster than a knuckleball.
That last pitch in the ninth that wasn't a knuckleball.
And in still another one, I throw a knuckleball for the first time in my life.
Toward the end of his career, he relied mostly on the knuckleball.
Think Sam will find his runaway knuckleball by then? Not a chance.
But he loved to talk baseball, especially the quest to throw the elusive knuckleball.
But he shouldn't have been the first knuckleball pitcher to win it.
As legendary hitting coach Charlie Lau once said, " There are two theories on hitting a knuckleball.
During his tenure, he got re-acquainted with the knuckleball that their father taught them.
He might try throwing sidearm, adding a cut fastball, even a knuckleball.
Baseball portal List of knuckleball pitchers " Baseball Suicides.
They were puzzlers and I still do not know if they were a knuckleball or a palm ball . ”.
Man, what a knuckleball that fellow has.
Wish he was a kid, so he could throw that knuckleball for our team.
That knuckleball is one whoo! Look, the big glove.
However, youngsters with smaller hands tend to throw the knuckleball with their knuckles.
Kenny Tyler with a knuckleball three pointer from half-court!
Think Sam will find his runaway knuckleball by then?
Mom says I get my knuckleball from her . If I know nurses, she 's probably right about that.
A free kick from Cristiano Ronaldo is very dangerous, because of a knuckleball effect.
A knuckleball specialist, he threw left-handed, and batted right-handed.

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