curveball

“I’ve never known anybody else who played Major League Baseball with keratoconus. I don’t know how he sees the spin on the curveball, or fastballs.”

The Dodgers, indeed, threw their fans a curveball.

A rare area of weakness for Yamamoto early this season had been his curveball.

Despite striking out seven batters, he was knocked around for a five-spot in the third, punctuated by a hanging curveball Michael Toglia hit for a grand slam.

After responding to a leadoff single with his sixth strikeout of the game, Miller lost his feel for, what up to that point, had been an effective curveball.