But the breaking ball is usually the last thing to come around for me.
The next time up, Cano took a wild swing and missed a 72 mph breaking ball by a lot.
The Bills were the favorites but the Giants came to play and established dominance with record-breaking ball control.
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Pitching with his parents in the stands, Fernandez flashed a mid-90s mph fastball and showed advanced command of his sharp breaking ball.
An intentional walk loaded the bases, and Lyon's first pitch to Greg Dobbs was a low breaking ball that got away from Recker, allowing Pierre to score.
Then Brandon Lyon's breaking ball skipped off Recker's glove for a wild pitch, which allowed Juan Pierre to score the winning run standing up with none out.
"Any time he was in a fastball count, he'd go to his breaking ball or his changeup to keep us off stride, " Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
Cano led off the third and sent an 0-2 breaking ball a few rows beyond the auxiliary scoreboard in right-center for his eighth home run of the year.
But he got some help when Buck made a tough, backhand pickup of a breaking ball in the dirt and threw out Span trying to scamper to second.
Davis was up next, and he did well to keep his hands back on a breaking ball and hit a line drive the other way to left-center for a single.
Pitching after six off days, Harvey overpowered the White Sox with a fastball in the upper 90s mph and got them guessing with a sharp breaking ball and pinpoint changeup.
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Puffs of dust were evidence of the ball breaking the surface of the pitch as it landed - and batting last should be awkward.
And Leadbitter dragged a tame shot wide after Sun Jihai, who had a torrid evening, slipped on halfway to gift the breaking Stokes the ball.
The Wallabies had burst into the lead, scrum-half Luke Burgess gathering a loose ball before breaking clear to find Turner for the first try, which made the score 10-0 following a Barnes penalty.
As the hour mark passed, Hamilton midfielder Gavin Skelton fired in, but Marian Kello parried, then Damian Casalinuovo looked set to score after breaking free with the ball, but the Hearts keeper was up to the task.
Zayatte should have belted the ball clear after breaking up an attack.
From his position in the stand, Jefferies sent four men forward, but his side were caught out at the back again and Samaras was ruled offside after breaking clear before rolling the ball into the net and the Greece forward was then denied by a good Kello save.
Scotland winger Simon Danielli was the inspiration for the home side, breaking through the defence before the ball was offloaded to Ferris.
The visitors were further buoyed when Villanueva went closest to breaking the deadlock when he collected the ball on the edge of the box and his left-footed shot clipped the bar with Jussi Jaaskelainen well beaten.
Sean Lamont's counter sparked the first, the left wing breaking through on the opposite flank before the ball was recycled for Regan King to send Priestland over.
Breaking the offside trap, he was first to the ball through the Celtic defence but his lob was athletically tipped wide by the alert Boruc.
Leeds' Mark Viduka - one of eight British-based players in Frank Farina's starting line-up - held the ball up brilliantly before delivering an overhead pass into the path of the breaking Bresciano who volleyed home.
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