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Tara2 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Here's the wind-up, the pitch! It's a high cutter.

Can you please explain the bold part?


Left field's found something better to do, center field's got a hunger pang in his second stomach and right field's digging for grubs. Play ball!

Why him?

Why now?

I won't embarrass you, Dad. Not this time.

Here's the wind-up, the pitch! It's a high cutter.

Ball!

Uh... Strike one!

I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I've seen roadkill with faster reflexes.

  

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Tara2 Here's the wind-up, the pitch! It's a high cutter. You need to watch a few minutes of a baseball game.

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Tara2Here's the wind-up, the pitch! It's a high cutter.

You need to watch a few minutes of a baseball game. Basically, you have a pitcher who throws the ball to his catcher, and the other team has a batter near the catcher who tries to hit it. In the act of throwing, the pitcher winds up, that is, changes his posture to allow him to throw effectively. That