But then the Palestinians and the international community threw Shavit and his friends yet another curveball.
Verducci provided a thorough explanation of how Martinez mastered the fastball, curveball and changeup.
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"The big thing going forward is to get comfortable with my curveball and cutter, " Halladay said.
Forward guidance, always a curveball with Apple, will be more heavily scrutinized this quarter than most.
"I think today, the big thing was the curveball, " Harvey said after his 19th major league start.
"When I tried to go to changeup, slider, curveball, it seemed like nothing was there, " Hughes said.
Roberts cited false information on Iraq that the Bush administration had taken from a source code-named Curveball.
Faced him a lot in the minor leagues and he was fastball-curveball, but now he developed that slider.
The CEO also faced a curveball about why there wasn't a customer bathroom at a Santa Monica store.
That didn't prevent him from throwing a biting curveball, along with some heaters.
Comer throws in the low 90s, can reach the mid 90s, features a great curveball and a very promising changeup.
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"Curveball really provided 98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon, " Roberts said.
Unfortunately, the execution of said plan is where we encounter a curveball.
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In fact, Roberts said, much information about Curveball was redacted, or blacked out, from the version of the report that was made public.
"I brought a bottle of rum to the bath and tried to work out what I should do with this curveball, " he recalls.
"He's got a two-seam fastball, curveball, slider, and changeup, " Stewart said.
Even if the Lumia 800 is a substantial hit in the UK and Spain as now seems, the quarter could be a bit of a curveball.
Cano, 4 for 12 against Balfour, took a called strike before the reliever bounced a curveball, which nicked the wrist of catcher Derek Norris, temporarily creating some numbness.
Despite umpire Marty Foster's postgame admission, Nathan still had his milestone save after a 5-4 Rangers victory Monday night that ended on a curveball that was low and outside.
Davis came up with the tying run on third base and one out in the eighth inning, only to flail wildly at a curveball in the dirt for strike three.
It is by touching their ears, noses and chins at a dizzying speed that they covertly communicate to the catcher whether the next pitch should be a fastball, curveball or changeup.
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But every so often, life throws us a curveball.
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Relying more heavily on his slider and curveball than a fastball that reaches 98 mph, Harvey gave up two runs in the third, and it could've been worse if Lagares hadn't made a sensational catch in center field.
The staff nimbly handled my requests, a bartender graciously accommodated my curveball order of a "nonsweet Mojito, " and a spa front desk attendant called me "milady" as he asked my slipper size--an unscripted moment that was even sweeter when I recalled my first visit.
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