Synonyms for fastball
ˈfæstˌbɔl, ˈfɑst-fast·ball

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1. fastballnoun

   Synonyms:
   hummer

2. fastballnoun

   Any of the variations of high speed pitches thrown in baseball

   Synonyms:
   hummer

3. fastballnoun

   A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers

   The pitcher had a blazing fastball.

   Synonyms:
   hummer

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bulletnoun

   (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

   "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"

   Synonyms:
   warmer, gage, skunk, smoke, roll of tobacco, weed, dope, fume, bullet, sess, slug, green goddess, hummer, locoweed, smoking, bullet train, grass, pot, sens, heater

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1. Branden Pinder:

   It was a fastball inside, it just cut on me a little bit. I would have liked to get it a little more inside.

2. Curt Simmons:

   Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.

3. Tommy John:

   I felt pretty good about my fastball today and I was throwing it a lot. Towards the end, I got a little tired because of that.

4. John Schilling:

   To engage an ICBM with THAAD would be like asking a high school baseball player to hit a fastball from a major-league pitcher - literally out of his league.

5. Joe adcock:

   Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.