Change-of-pace

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  change-of-pace \change-of-pace\ n. (Baseball)
     a baseball pitch thrown with little velocity when the batter
     is expecting a fastball; -- called also {change-up}.
  
     Syn: change-up, change-of-pace ball, off-speed pitch.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  change-of-pace
       n : a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is
           expecting a fastball [syn: {change-up}, {change-of-pace
           ball}, {off-speed pitch}]