split-finger fastball

English

Demonstration of split-finger fastball (sense 1).

Alternative forms

• (by ellipsis) split-finger, splitter; split-fingered fastball

Noun

split-finger fastball (plural split-finger fastballs)

2. (baseball) A moderate rotation speed backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped between the index finger and middle finger; it has good velocity, may have a precessing spin, and sinks as it approaches the plate.

   His strikeout pitch was his split-finger fastball.

Translations

baseball pitch

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 快速指叉球, 指叉快速球

• Esperanto: fingrofenda rapidpilko sg, fingrofendaj rapidpilkoj pl
• French: balle fronde f, splitter (fr) m
• Korean: 스플릿 핑거 (seupeullit pinggeo), 스플릿핑거 패스트볼 (seupeullitpinggeo paeseuteubol)
• Polish: splitter (pl) m inan

See also

• curveball
• cut fastball
• fastball
• knuckleball
• screwball
• sinker
• slider
• two-seam fastball