outcurven.

1881 N.Y. Herald 29 July 6/5 Reipslaugher,..not being used to the difficult delivery of Bond, found great difficulty in handling the in-shoots and out-curves.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 74/2 A movement of the hand, an elevation of the head by the latter [sc. the catcher], lets the pitcher know that this ball is to be an in-shoot, the other an out-curve.

1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 459/2 The commonest of these swerving deliveries, and the first invented, is the out-curve, the ball coming straight towards the batsman until almost within reach of his bat, when it suddenly swerves away from him towards the right. if he be right-handed.

1943 Amer. Speech 18 106 Various types of curve ball are the sinker.., the in-curve, the out-curve,..and the screwball.

1989 P. Dickson Baseball Dict. 287/2 Outcurve/out curve, a curveball that veers away from the batter. The opposite of incurve.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 622/2 It is convenient to employ a specific name for a projection of a coast-line less pronounced than a peninsula, and for an inlet less pronounced than a bay or bight; outcurve and incurve may serve the turn.

1912 J. Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 68 The sharp outcurve of his dark head.

1945 Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 7-O/5 This designer bows to the new round-shouldered vogue, but builds hers in an ‘outcurve’, to avoid the drooping look apparent in many of the new styles.

1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse viii. 252 I did what one does on the Missouri: go slowly into the outside of the bends where the current is supposed to be, even though that out-curve was full of snags.