knuckleball
knuckler

It is easy for him to picture his life without the knuckleball.

And the Braves, then, will be on their own against the knuckleball.

We all feed off of each other - and the knuckleball.

He was also known to throw a knuckleball earlier in his career.

He is considered to be the "father" of the modern knuckleball.

His 2011 season was followed in the documentary film Knuckleball!

He's a knuckleball pitcher and may pitch 10 more years.

It is sometimes used simply as slang for the knuckleball.

However, the knuckleball does provide some advantages to its practitioners.

He developed the knuckleball in 1973, and it became his key pitch.

Learning how to catch the knuckleball is a continuous process, because it's never the same.

I didn't care if he had to throw him a knuckleball.

But Martinez's approach was to look for any knuckleball thrown high.

How many knuckleball pitchers are there in the major leagues?

I was the only guy there who threw a knuckleball."

"When you do that, you've got the freedom to throw the knuckleball all the time."

"Trying to catch a knuckleball is not an easy thing to do.

Toward the end of his career, he relied mostly on the knuckleball.

He told himself that there was "not a better way to end it than to strike out the last guy with a knuckleball."

"But there's nothing you can do to prepare to hit the knuckleball.

"Beyond that, for the receivers it was like catching a knuckleball."

But the lure of the knuckleball is known to children and scientists alike.

"The knuckleball, on the other hand, is the opposite of all that.

He is among the very few active knuckleball pitchers in baseball.

Williams was also known to throw an occasional knuckleball in games.

"He has that knuckler and he gets it over pretty good."

Knuckler leaned forward and lowered his voice to a whisper.

In either case, Knuckler would be wise enough to keep his future guesses to himself.

The better the knuckler, the more trouble Bard had.

Throwing the knuckler takes far less out of an arm than tossing any another pitch.

"If you got a knuckler, he better be in with the thieves' guild.

The homer came on a knuckler that Wakefield said he thought was a good pitch.

If you swing at a low knuckler, he said, you are going to hit it in the dirt.

Back in 1969, Hough injured his shoulder and started tinkering with the knuckler.

Doc and me will do some business about the knuckler and how it flutters.

Cliff had silenced Knuckler after the news had been spilled.

"He taught us the knuckler but he didn't throw it.

Jeff Kent then drove a ball to deep center that acted like a knuckler in the rain and wind.

Chad Curtis waited and slammed a knuckler over the wall in left-center field.

He threw both a screwball and a knuckler.

Hough's inability to control his dancing knuckler got him in trouble with two out in the first.

How about the game where Wake's knuckler got by Salty to give a game away?

In addition to the knuckler, Sparks threw an occasional slider and low-80s fastball.

But lately Wakefield's knuckler has looked the size of a softball to most hitters.

Knuckler shook his head in violent protest.

By his manner, Cliff had left Knuckler puzzled.

Sparks's knuckler was working, and he was throwing strikes.

When Flaherty was ready to throw his knuckler, he waved his hand.

Wakefield has limited the Yankees to two earned runs and eight hits in 13 2/3 innings with his knuckler this season.

"Cliff's a smart gazebo, anyway," decided "Knuckler," after a brief consideration.