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Ephus vs Eephus - What's the difference?

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Ephus is an alternative form of eephus.


As nouns the difference between ephus and eephus

is that ephus is while eephus is (baseball) an off-speed pitch with unusually low velocity, intended to catch the hitter off guard.

ephus

English

Noun

  • eephus

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ephus

    Noun

    (Eephus pitch)
  • (baseball) An off-speed pitch with unusually low velocity, intended to catch the hitter off guard.
  • * 2003 , Michael Seidel, Ted Williams: a baseball life?
  • Sewell was determined to live or die by the eephus .
  • * 2004 , Fred Cicetti, Saltwater Taffy: A Summer at the Jersey Shore
  • He figured that, if it were another eephus , he'd have time to react.
  • * 2005 , Randy Roberts, The rock, the curse, and the hub: a random history of Boston sports
  • When, on his first pitch, Sewell served an eephus , Williams almost broke his back trying to get to it.