1. Martinez had good velocity on his fastball.

2. Jack managed to bunt the fastball.

3. The pitcher wound up and let loose a fastball.

4. Certainly both Sloan and Fastball were obvious picks to open for Matthew Sweet, and would have made a great triple bill.

5. But Leskanic brought a first-pitch, hit-me fastball down the pipe.

6. He added a cut fastball and a change-up to go with the fastball, slider and forkball that carried him earlier.

7. Key dropped down for a sidearm fastball with two strikes, but he left it up around the chin.

8. Sabathia has a fastball in the high 90s and good command of a curveball and changeup.

9. He can overpower hitters with his fastball or fool them with his off-speed stuff.

10. Mark Wohlers has a howling fastball and a big body.

11. Paige had long lost his overpowering fastball and could only throw sidearm, yet he had retained his remarkable control.

12. Occasionally, he'll throw a split - fingered fastball, too.

13. He swung late on the fastball.

14. Give me a fastball every day of the week , and twice on Sundays.

15. But his regular four - seam fastball is legit, too.

16. Kuroda throws a two - and four - fastball, a splitter and a slider that has been called a shuuto.

17. He has a quirky windup but his fastball is great.

18. A hard, fast pitch is called a " fastball. "

19. Then Cecil Fielder rocked a three-run homer to left-center, off a fastball Erickson wished he had back.

20. If this was baseball, the next hitter would have gotten a fastball to the temple.

21. His scouting report lists him as having an average fastball and average stuff.

22. Left fielder Mark Whiten reached out and poked a tailing fastball over the left-field wall in the second.

23. Here is a look at his average change-up and average fastball from the side to show what I mean.

24. He has an aggressive approach aimed at getting ahead of hitters and to do so he relies on a sinking fastball, sharp curve and a very good change-up .

25. I was too slow to play football, and my devastating curve and drop at 12 didn't come with any more break at 16. My fastball couldn't crack a pane of glass.

26. Dan Jenkins . Nearing his 79 th birthday, the venerable author still has his fastball.

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27. Starting pitcher Andy Pettitte watched Hughes work from the dugout in the seventh inning and said the way Hughes' fastball was rising, it looked a little bit like Mariano Rivera's devastating cutter.

28. Federer, as Lendl noted , has lost a few miles per hour off his fastball.