How to Use changeup in a Sentence

changeup

noun
  • The batter struck out on a changeup.
  • The changeup played off of that.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • The pitch that needs to come is the changeup.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The sinker was good and the changeup was good.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
  • When your best pitch is your changeup, less tends to be more.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 July 2025
  • The homer came on a changeup that hung at the top of the strike zone.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 9 June 2022
  • Mead then lined a first-pitch changeup to left for a two-run homer.
    — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The only thing that kept me in the game was my changeup.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
  • The changeup is a real good one.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There are concepts to work on, his changeup among them.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That cutter and the changeup got ground balls.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
  • His changeup has one of the league’s highest whiff rates.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Andy Pages struck out on a changeup to send it to the eighth.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Brown got three swinging strikes on those changeups to end his night.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • Akin’s changeup and slider were among the five worst in the league.
    — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Raleigh’s 58th home run came on a thigh-high changeup.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Wood allowed a full-count changeup to hang over the heart of the plate.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
  • The two compared notes about changeup grips.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • To see that and to see the changeup thrown for strikes and the slider was good.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • No curves, no sliders, no changeups.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Should have gone with the (two-seam fastball) off the plate or back to the changeup.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 23 July 2025
  • Changing up the changeup is not all that Webb has changed up.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Over the years, Manaea lost his feel for the changeup.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The rest of the fingers hold the ball like a normal changeup.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • For years, Kershaw had tried and failed to throw a changeup.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Sánchez followed with a changeup.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In his first at-bat, Gil threw him two changeups and a slider.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • Mangum topped a changeup on Miller’s final pitch.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The Mets couldn’t pick up his slider and were fooled on his changeup.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
  • He's got a two-plane slider and a changeup that has some tumble to it.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023

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