Ephus vs Eephus - What's the difference?
ephus | eephus | Alternative forms |
(baseball) An off-speed pitch with unusually low velocity, intended to catch the hitter off guard.
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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.eephus
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Alternative forms
* ephusNoun
(Eephus pitch)- Sewell was determined to live or die by the eephus .
- He figured that, if it were another eephus , he'd have time to react.
- When, on his first pitch, Sewell served an eephus , Williams almost broke his back trying to get to it.