I still think I can do it. I last pitched when I was 15 and had a fastball [reportedly clocked at 90 mph], curve and changeup.
我上一次投球是15岁时,拿手的是快球 (传闻中有90mph (译者: 40.2米/秒, 放到职棒中也还不错的)),曲线球和变速球.
For them, that 0-2, two-out, tie-game fastball looks as fat and slow as a volleyball.
在他们眼中,在0 - 2落后、两人出局,抑或是平局时的快速直球,棒球就像排球一样大,速度也同样缓慢。
Some are to get the batter off balance, have him swing early, and to make the fastball seem faster to the batter.
有些是为了让打者失去平衡、让打者提早出棒,或是让之后接着投出的快速球看起来更快。
By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field.
当我16岁的时候,我已经能把棒球击破,投出每小时90英里的快球,并且能击中任何在美式足球场上移动的东西。
Baseball players have it tough, trying to hit an incoming fastball with a small, rounded bat.
棒球手要想用一根短圆的球棒击中飞速而至的球很不容易。
Give me a fastball every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
比较起来,我宁可每天都打速球,即使礼拜天打两倍多的速球份量也无妨。
Some 50 years ago, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca threw a smoky fastball up and in to New York Giant, Bobby Thomson, who turned on it like a farmer wielding a machete.
大概五十年前的一场比赛,布鲁克林道奇队投手拉夫·布兰卡向纽约巨人队的鲍比·汤姆森掷出了一记冒着烟的快球,后者如同农夫挥舞镰刀一般击球。
Right-handed hitters look away for the fastball and react to the deuce.
右打者看完快速球后,对曲球进行反应。