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- noun Plural form of
slurve .
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Examples
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He spent a month in the Mexican League last fall working on the breaking pitch he needs to be an effective big leaguer, and the tall right-hander snapped off several sharp "slurves"
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As a pitcher, you drop slurves on the corners and work on your
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It's pretty clear which set of pitches are Aumont's fastballs and which are his slurves.
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He only threw 21 pitches (13 fastballs, 8 slurves) but his average fastball sat near 96 miles per hour with solid movement.
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I strongly agree with him on the pronation concept on all fastball-type pitches - all those except the supination variety (curveballs, sliders, and slurves), although he has the pronation curveball to prove it can be thrown without supinating.
unknown title Jason Parks 2008
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