If we're talking about a pitcher, like Matsuzaka, we might want to know the speed of his average fastball.

如果我们谈到一个投手，像松阪，我们可能想知道他的平均快球速度。

Soriano hit Peavy's first pitch, a 90-mph fastball, down the left-field line.

索里亚诺击中皮威的第一投，这个快球时速90英里，落在了左边线上。

Kids give you an excuse to work on your fastball.

孩子们给你一个练习快球的理由。

Right-handed hitters look away for the fastball and react to the deuce.

右打者看完快速球后，对曲球进行反应。

And the example we'll pick is considering, for example, a Matsuzaka fastball.

我们举例来考虑的是，一个松阪的快球。

For them, that 0-2, two-out, tie-game fastball looks as fat and slow as a volleyball.

在他们眼中，在0 - 2落后、两人出局，抑或是平局时的快速直球，棒球就像排球一样大，速度也同样缓慢。

My fastball couldn't crack a pane of glass. Hitters would just sit there and wait for it.

我的快攻甚至不能突破一层窗玻璃，击球员只要等在那儿就可以了。

For example, if we're talking about a pitcher, like Matsuzaka, we might want to know the speed of his average fastball.

举例来说，如果我们谈到一个投手，就像松阪，我们想知道他投出，快球的平均速度。

Hughes said he wasn't trying to cut the ball on purpose, but it's just what happens sometimes when he throws his fastball.

休斯则说他倒没有刻意要去“卡”球，但他的快速球偶尔跑起来就像卡特球。

I still think I can do it. I last pitched when I was 15 and had a fastball [reportedly clocked at 90 mph], curve and changeup.

我上一次投球是15岁时, 拿手的是快球 (传闻中有90mph (译者: 40.2米/秒, 放到职棒中也还不错的)), 曲线球和变速球.

By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field.

当我16岁的时候，我已经能把棒球击破，投出每小时90英里的快球，并且能击中任何在美式足球场上移动的东西。

So, if we're trying to figure out the wavelength of a Matsuzaka fastball, we need to consider the velocity first, which is 42 miles per hour.

如果我们尝试计算一个，松阪发出快球的波长， 我们首先需要考虑速度，每小时为42英里。

It's not always how fast you throw the fastball, sometimes it's your different styles or the different ways that you decide when to throw what.

这不总是你投出，棒球的速度有多快，有时这是你投球的类型，或者你决定采用的投球方式。

Some 50 years ago, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca threw a smoky fastball up and in to New York Giant, Bobby Thomson, who turned on it like a farmer wielding a machete.

大概五十年前的一场比赛，布鲁克林道奇队投手拉夫·布兰卡向纽约巨人队的鲍比·汤姆森掷出了一记冒着烟的快球，后者如同农夫挥舞镰刀一般击球。