cut fastball

cut fastball (plural cut fastballs)

1. (baseball) A pitch thrown with an offset grip and a moderate amount of added pressure by middle finger yielding a combination of backspin and some sidespin, resulting in motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher with velocity only slightly diminished from that of a fastball

   His cut fastball tends to break bats.

• cutter

• curveball
• fastball
• slider
• two-seam fastball
• split-finger fastball
• sinker
• screwball
• knuckleball