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On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, Yamamoto turned to his splitter for the first time, barely clipping the inside edge of the strike zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Working quickly, Wrobleski pitched seven innings, worked in a splitter for the first time this season and yielded eight hits but just one run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
That’s what happens when you have a fastball that reaches 100 miles per hour, a disappearing splitter and an array of breaking balls with inconceivable movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
On the late-March phone call, the spouses brainstormed what they might sell, People reported, including some of their trailers, their ATV, a pressure washer and a wood splitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
He was not a splitter, but a lumper, a seeker of deeper anatomy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Against left-handed hitting Sung-Mun Song, he threw mostly four-seam fastballs and splitters, finishing off the six-pitch at-bat with a sweeper, according to Statcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
The Toronto Blue Jays threw more splitters than anybody in the sport and won the American League pennant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Batters across MLB put up a dismal .210 batting average against splitters last season, compared with .224 against sliders and sweepers and .225 against curveballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The Tsinghua team solved this by designing a fully integrated on-chip system with adjustable power splitters and precise delay lines.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2025
At one time he had and used as legal tender at least forty-five tops of various sizes and colors, from the thick clumsy baby tops to the lean and dangerous splitters with their needle points.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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