outcurve

[ out-kurv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Baseball.
1. a ball pitched so that it curves away from the batter.
2. the course of such a ball.
an outward curve.

First recorded in 1880–85; after the verb phrase curve out

He struck at the next and missed, and then Jim fanned him with a slow outcurve that he almost broke his back in reaching for.

The next was a wide outcurve away from the plate, but Ellis did not “bite,” and it went as a ball.

The third ball pitched was a wide outcurve at which Larry refused to bite.

Then the first ball pitched came in an outcurve which he swung at in vain.

To make him hit into a double play, Jim made the next an outcurve.

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