OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27075

knuckleball

Meanings (ES + gloss)
lanzamiento de nudillos
A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball.
Even the pitcher doesn't know where his knuckleball is going.
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