Words similar to fastball

Example sentences for: fastball

How can you use “fastball” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He was tossing back a weak, hanging slider and demanding a fastball so he could hit it harder.
An Oct. 4 Time article about Jim Morris, a 35-year-old rookie for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, quotes a baseball scout saying he was "bumfuzzled " when he saw Morris' 98 mph fastball.
He got all of a 97-mph fastball, and launched it at 105 mph in the general direction of Canada.
We have often wondered if McGwire got ahold of a Randy Johnson fastball how far he could hit it, and I think we just saw it."
Instead of indulging in the usual teary nostalgia about baseball (that means you, Ken Burns), Will considered it as a craft, explaining exactly why a manager calls a hit-and-run now and not on the next pitch, how a pitcher sets up his fastball, why a shortstop moves in a step for one kind of double play and out a step for another.