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Plan: This can be a very good out-pitch with runners on base.

Scout's take: Cook vs. Lester in Game 4 2007

He will start lefties with his fastball, but he won't use it as much as an out-pitch to lefties.

Scout's take: Cook vs. Lester in Game 4 2007

It's his best out-pitch – a good swing-and-miss pitch.

Scout's take: Fogg vs. Matsuzaka in Game 3 2007

He throws this pitch hard and will use it off the plate (inside to left-handed hitters) to make room for his out-pitch, which is the split-fingered fastball.

Scout's take: Fogg vs. Matsuzaka in Game 3 2007

Movement: Cook uses his hard slider as an out-pitch to both right-handed and left-handed hitters.

Scout's take: Cook vs. Lester in Game 4 2007

They see the ball a long time, which enables them to identify and lay off Lester's best out-pitch – his slider.

Scout's take: Cook vs. Lester in Game 4 2007

Lion in Oil has a better writeup, but I just wanted to point out that Ryan, who is a longtime friend of my family my granddad was on the board of directors for his bank in Alvin, and I grew up playing baseball with his kids on the weekends at his home in Alvin, could probably still get on the mound and out-pitch Jason Jennings.

Nolan Ryan Says “Beef De Genki” « the j. botter weblog 2007

"Hopefully, I can out-pitch those guys (Glavine and Maddux)," says Millwood.

USATODAY.com - Trio scattered on Opening Day; only Millwood wins 2003

Whinnying, prancing, cavorting, away Roy tore in the lead, Robin Adair hot-foot upon him, Jean Paul striving manfully to keep his pitching seat, which he felt to out-pitch any deck ever designed by man.

Peggy Stewart at School

To pitch like this -- with an uncertain fastball and an out-pitch that goes Little League slow -- takes command, and it takes precision, and perhaps most of all it takes brashness.

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