1.   Belinda threw a sequence of fastball, slider, sinker, fastball in, and sinking fastball, which Ripken hit for a slow grounder toward shortstop John Valentin.

2.   But Miceli fell behind and then made the fatal mistake of placing a fastball in the old wheelhouse.

3.   Clemens had won only once in his last five starts and admitted that he did not have much zip on his fastball in his last start against Baltimore.

4.   Give him a steady diet of fastballs in.

5.   He liked the pitch he threw, a fastball in on the hands.

6.   He cut off some fastballs and threw some fastballs in the dirt.

7.   He hit grounders in his first two at-bats Sunday, before smashing a high fastball in the fifth inning.

8.   He hits the fastball in.

9.   He encountered one immediate problem, akin to a batter who dreads a fastball in tight.

10.   He relied on his fastball in Cleveland, last night he went more with his off-speed pitches down in the strike zone.