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split-fingered fastball
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split-fin·gered fastball  (spltfnggrd)
n. Baseball
A fastball thrown with the ball held between the index and middle finger, causing the ball to drop sharply near home plate.
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Even the pitch he's developing to go with his devastating split-finger fastball is no longer a secret.
Okajima is adding 2-seamer by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
With Maicer Izturis on third base and two out, the veteran right-hander, protecting a two-run lead and no longer capable of reaching back and throwing a fastball 97 miles per hour as he could do in years ago, Schilling instead threw a softer version of his old hard split-finger fastball.
CHANGING IT UP WORKS FOR SCHILLING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Shields throws two changeups, a ``get-me-over'' he throws to get ahead of hitters, and a ``put-away'' change with late downward movement similar to a split-finger fastball that his agent, Page Odle calls a ``Bugs Bunny pitch'' because of the cartoon-like swings it typically produces.
CHANGE IS GOOD FOR SHIELDS NEW PITCHES HELPS FORMER HART STAR by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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