fireballer

Do we yank the pitcher now and bring in our fireballer?

From the beginning, Clemens was a fireballer, Wells more of a junkballer.

A hard-throwing fireballer, Bishop never was able to fulfill the potential that he showed in the minors.

No one seemed to blame the boy, a lanky left-handed fireballer who hurled a perfect game in the series two weeks ago.

Bobby Jenks, the 24-year-old fireballer, started the ninth inning.

The 25-year-old rookie fireballer was given the chance to save the April 5 game against the Texas Rangers.

This is my repairman, Jack Bohlen, a real fireballer.

Irabu has not lived up to his billing: a Japanese fireballer poised to take the American League by storm.

When Armando Benitez, the large fireballer, came on in the tenth, he was welcomed with the low, round noises of discontent.

"The fledgling fireballer mowed down batters like tenpins at a bowling alley," he writes at one point.

The Mets went from facing a fireballer in Rocker to a sidearmer in Smoltz.

"Some told me I was too short, others thought I was in fact older than the age that appeared in my papers," said the right-handed fireballer.

There he teamed up with Dontrelle Willis, the left-handed fireballer with whom he would later join in the majors.

Most expect him to be a fastball pitcher, considering he is the same size as Seattle fireballer Randy Johnson, but they do not mirror each other in the least.

Irabu was a veteran fireballer for the Chiba Lotte Marines when he signed with the New York Yankees, in 1997.

There were memorable coaches like kindly, Zeus-like Mr. Gould and terrifying foes, like unhittable fireballer Kevin Clancy.

At age 20, he was a hulking, grim-faced fireballer who seemed poised to follow in the footsteps of his fellow Texans Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens.

This dramatic series showcased great pitching from Giant Christy Mathewson and from Boston fireballer Smoky Joe Wood.

Was Jeter surprised, a West Coast reporter asked last Thursday, to have hit a home run off the Anaheim Angels fireballer Bartolo Colón?

To Yankees fans who are looking for the old Randy Johnson, the National League fireballer who reduced batters to sawdust, the comments may be a little disconcerting.

The Indians traded fireballer "Sudden Sam" McDowell for Perry, who became the first Indian pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.

And he compared Todd Welborn, who roared from Columbia to Lynchburg to Jackson in one season, with Todd Worrell, the Cardinals' gentleman fireballer.

On August 20, he threw a one-hitter, giving up his one hit in the ninth inning and losing 1-0 to the Baltimore Orioles, and their young fireballer Matt Kilroy.

Stanley is also remembered for his quote on being struck out by fireballer Nolan Ryan, who had once no-hit the Tigers in 1973: "Those were the best pitches I ever heard."

In December 2009, Wade and the Astros signed reliever Brandon Lyon and acquired fireballer closer Matt Lindstrom from the Florida Marlins.