off-speed pitch

1. 1.

   a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball

   Synonymschange-upchange-of-pacechange-of-pace ball

   Broaderpitch

Questions about off-speed pitch

What does off-speed pitch mean?

off-speed pitch means "a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball".

What is another word for off-speed pitch?

Close synonyms include change-up, change-of-pace, change-of-pace ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is off-speed pitch a common word?

off-speed pitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.