What's the difference between fastball and hummer?

Fastball


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then Kelly misses again, 3-2 now...Drew swings through a fastball, strike three!
  • (2) Nothing doing for Marte who can do nothing with an inside fastball - that's four strikeouts now for Wainwright - at least Marte saw 12 pitches, but that's small consolation down seven runs.
  • (3) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
  • (4) 1.05am BST Jake Peavy Dave Leese (@dl_1009) @Busfield @LengelDavid I especially like watching a pitcher who's been declared legally blind, have a go at hitting a 90mph fastball October 26, 2013 Yes, the Sox starter is legally blind without corrective lenses.
  • (5) On 2-2, Fielders swings and misses on a high fastball to strike out.
  • (6) 1.17am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, bottom of 1st Lance Lynn pus a 1-0 fastball right in the wheelhouse but Carl Crawford can only lift it to center field - John Jay is waiting, and has it, which, by the way is no longer a foregone conclusion following his dismal performance last night.
  • (7) That doesn't keep Nolasco from being aggresive however, and he uses his fastball to get yet another strikeout, one of the 93MPH variety.
  • (8) @LengelDavid October 29, 2013 1.48am GMT Red Sox 1 - Cardinals 1, top of 6th Wainwright pounds the strike zone, fastball up and in so the count stays at 2-2.
  • (9) The triceps, flexor carpi radialis, and pronator teres all showed less activity in the injured pitchers during the fastball, but only the triceps had less activity during the curveball.
  • (10) It's a low fastball that Adams lets go - he's upset, Molina pops out of the dugout to make sure he's not ejected by the umpire for arguing balls and strikes, and that's the inning.
  • (11) Gomes chops the next three foul to stay alive, the third pitch a 95mph fastball, but Wacha wins the battle by getting him to pop up to centerfield.
  • (12) 12.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, top of the 1st Dustin Pedroia is up next, he falls behind 1-2, strikes out on a fastball and it's a 1-2-3 inning for Lance Lynn.
  • (13) Smith just fouls off a fastball to stay alive and then grounds to Peralta and Verlander's working on something special here.
  • (14) 2.01am BST Tigers 0 - A's 0, bottom of the 3rd Stephen Vogt works a full count but it is for naught, as Verlander blows a fastball by him to make him his fifth strikeout victim.
  • (15) Kinsler at the plate and he gets jammed by a Price fastball but manages to muscle one just beyond the reach of the second baseman Zobrist who was pursuing the pop in right field - Gentry comes home and the Rangers have an important run back.
  • (16) 1.37am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of 1st Max Scherzer deals a fastball which flies harmlessly over the swinging bat of David Ortiz, and Big Papi becomes the second back in the back-to-back Scherzer strikeouts, ending yet another scoreless inning for Boston.
  • (17) Tigers 2 - A's 0, top of the 4th And THERE Miguel Cabrera has found his power stroke, he hits a home run on an elevated Gray fastball to straightaway leftfield for his first extra-base hit of the series!
  • (18) Physics experiments confirm that many reported trajectories are possible, but not the rising fastball.
  • (19) Nick Punto works a full count off of Michael Wacha before he strikes out on a high fastball, because he is Nick Punto, 9.43pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd Jon Jay is up next for the the Cardinals, Kershaw gets him to ground out to Mark Ellis and that's six gone after that lead-off triple.
  • (20) Hanley is hit by a Kelly fastball, one that smarted, or at least seemed to.

Hummer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
  • (n.) A humming bird.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no yellow Lamborghinis or Hummers blasting music.
  • (2) During a conference in 2008, she distributed a fleet of hummers to regional bosses.
  • (3) The latest incarnation of the Batmobile - usually a sleek sportscar - looks like someone crossed a Hummer with a Lamborghini and a stealth bomber, then got a T-Rex to sit on the result.
  • (4) Or if I'm in a more socially conscious form of my default setting, I can spend time in the end-of-the-day traffic jam being angry and disgusted at all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUVs and Hummers and V12 pickup trucks burning their wasteful, selfish, 40-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just 20 stupid feet ahead in a traffic jam, and I can think about how our children's children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and disgusting we all are, and how it all just sucks ...
  • (5) Outside Gucci, a driver kipped yesterday in a black seven-series Mercedes; nearby someone had parked their giant Hummer jeep on the pavement.
  • (6) In this traffic, all these vehicles stuck and idling in my way: it's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs have been in horrible car accidents in the past and now find driving so traumatic that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive; or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital, and he's in a much bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am - it is actually I who am in his way.
  • (7) GM, which is 60% owned by the US treasury, has cut its workforce from 318,000 three years ago to 209,000 globally and has got rid of brands such as Hummer, Saab, Pontiac and Saturn.
  • (8) I’m not going to sit back and buy a Hummer and just let it all slide.
  • (9) The organization will begin to disintegrate into several smaller, uncoordinated entities – ultimately failing in their objective of creating a strong state.” Manning was posted to Forward Operating Base Hummer outside Baghdad where as an intelligence analyst she had a ring-side seat on the largely Sunni insurgency, poring through classified databases to track the movements and tactics of groups including Isis.
  • (10) 9.01pm: Meanwhile, in other news on the motor industry front - General Motors has just announced that it is shutting down the gas-guzzling Hummer brand after a sale to China's Sichuan Tengzhong.
  • (11) Among registrations of new passenger cars were 850,000 SUVs – a rise of 24% – including 425 Hummers.
  • (12) GM, America's biggest carmaker, is selling brands such as Hummer and Saturn as it scrambles to slim down its operations.
  • (13) If the world was going to end next week I'd have commemorative ARMAGEDDON RIGHT ON IT 2K12 T-shirts made for me and 35 close mates, hire a white stretch Hummer to take us to Nando's in Brent Cross, and ride it all out over a family platter or 10 and a bucket of cheeky Vimtos.
  • (14) Yet if Punta is testament to the utter incongruence of money and taste, José Ignacio, occupying a thin peninsula in the middle of two wide coves, is a restrained, elegant demonstration of how high-end development can be done well - the Jaguar to Punta del Este's luminous yellow, souped-up Hummer.
  • (15) In fact, the biggest problem for Qahtani was her husband sitting next to her in the family Hummer.
  • (16) Hummer limousines (£400 an hour), fire engines and party buses (from £350 an hour), rickshaws and helicopters (and even tractors in rural locations) are also becoming more popular choices, Brookman says.
  • (17) This difference has been attributed [Hummer & Millán (1991) Biochem.
  • (18) When the couple eventually move here, I trust they will get their Hummer serviced at Kwik Fit, sport K-Swiss trainers on their feet and eat only Special K for breakfast, followed by KFC for lunch with a Kit Kat for pudding.
  • (19) One of the earliest personal computers, the Apple-1, will also go under the hummer alongside Turing's work.
  • (20) The prisoner was seen to be gasping for air for up to 14 minutes in a procedure that one observer, Lawrence Hummer, described in the Guardian as horrendous and inhumane.