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Nintendo slider

Nintendo slider  n.— «“He’s got the Nintendo slider,” [Torii] Hunter said of [Jeff] Nelson. “I wasn’t trying to swing for the fence. I made contact and the ball went out. I don’t know how.”» —“M’s get...

Nintendo slider

Nintendo slider  n.— «It makes it a little easier to get right-handers out when you have more velocity, but when the velocity is lower, you throw a little more junk. Right now, my slider is working well. It looked like a Nintendo slider...

Nintendo slider

Nintendo slider n. in baseball, a pitch which breaks unexpectedly over the plate, as if remotely controlled. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Nintendo pitch

Nintendo pitch  n.— «Fiore relieved some of the Dome’s congestion by surrendering a three-run homer to Wells in the seventh. It came off Fiore’s palm ball. “That’s like a Nintendo pitch,” Wells said. “He lets it go, and...

Nintendo slider

Nintendo slider  n.— «He’s 6-foot-10, has a 97 mph fastball from the side and has a Nintendo slider.» —“Orioles do a shuffle for matchup with Johnson” by David Ginsburg in Seattle, Wash. AP Oct. 1, 1997...

Nintendo slider

Nintendo slider  n.— «In baseball parlance, a “Nintendo slider” is one that breaks as if controlled by a joystick.» —“Pitching: Nathan vs. Santana” by Jim Souhan Star Trigune (Minneapolis, Minn...

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