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pitcher
Sign in to saveAlso known as baseball pitcher, softball pitcher, hurler, twirler, feeder, thrower
thumb|Clayton Kershaw, a pitcher for the [[Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching in a game versus the New York Mets in 2015]]
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- baseball position
- Subclass of
- baseball player
- Location
- pitcher's mound
- Sport
- softball
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- Commons category
- Pitchers (baseball)
- topic's main category
- Category:Baseball pitchers
- female form of label
- metalka
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- partially coincident with
- bowler
- different from
- Pitcher
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Pitching in a game
- Inside pitching
- Rotation and specialization
- After the ball is pitched
- Pitching biomechanics
- Equipment
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Clayton Kershaw, a pitcher for the [[Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching in a game versus the New York Mets in 2015]]
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the defensive numbering system used in baseball, the pitcher is assigned the number 1. The pitcher is often considered the most important player on the defensive side of the game, and as such is situated at the right end of the defensive spectrum. There are many different types of pitchers, such as the starting pitcher, relief pitcher, middle reliever, lefty specialist, setup man, and the closer.
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