Curveball

It's hard to hit a curveball.

He's a master at the curveball.

Where'd you learn to throw that curveball?

When the lanes are dry like this, a curveball ends up in the gutter.

Tom pitched a curveball.

Tom's best pitch is his curveball.

Where did you learn to throw that curveball?

He swung the bat, trying to hit a curveball.

They threw me a curveball in the interview.

They threw me a curveball in the interview, but I knocked it out of the park.

He bit on a curveball in the dirt.

Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals.

Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.

Life has thrown him a few curveballs.

The season’s first episode, “Bart Gets an F,” got the highest ratings in its history, but “Treehouse of Horror” was the real curveball: a genre-busting effort that proudly punched above the show’s expectations.

There are two curveball nominations, one perhaps a popularity bid and the other a credibility bid. The popular one is Bieber’s Purpose.

But from time to time, June throws up a curveball, in the shape of unusual and hard to predict meteorological events.

And I think that’s an example of where faced with a seemingly intractable political reality, technology produces a solution that is a total curveball and not that imaginable a few decades ago.

Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell.

The news curveballed him. He'd been hamstrung and schizzed all the preceding weeks. He brooded in his den.