How To Use Pitcher In A Sentence
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Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?
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Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.
Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher.
WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
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It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
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Other amazing samples from the plant world will be revealed to the children, including plants with armbands to help them swim and meat-eating plants like the Pitcher plant, which is on loan from Cardiff University.
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The third-string pitcher, a kid named Ingrid, has pitched a great game.
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Don't believe the pitcher baloney.
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a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth
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Few position players or pitchers maintain an even remotely uniform level of effectiveness.
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He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
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Tell those candy-ass wannabe pitchers to stick it.
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The new pitcher made a great play on that throw to first base.
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He wanted to work on the vegetation inventory for a pitcher plant bog he had going.
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The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street
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These include the pitcher plants of the Asian tropics, known as Nepenthes, which resemble jugs brimming with nectar—or perhaps more accurately, mouths slavering with drool.
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The Padres are banking on improvement from several pitchers, headed by Ashby and Hamilton.
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Parker, who suffered a mild concussion, was monitored overnight by Dodgers officials and by his roommate, pitcher Jim Bruske.
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She poured two glasses of iced tea from a glass pitcher.
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They also asked for a pitcher of lemonade to wash down their meal with.
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He didn't knock back a pitcher of lemonade before he staggered onto the stage.
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Every other pitcher on the team steps aside to accommodate the big kahuna.
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Be especially careful not to swear in front of little children. Little pitchers have long ears.
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Huong waved with both hands in Victnamese gestures that Rob translated to mean, stow the pitcher and glasses.
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Sports would be a far more amusing place if it relaxed, exhaled and learned a lesson from this lo-fi World Series between Texas and San Francisco, which the Giants now lead three games to one after a brilliant 4-0 shutout win propelled by rookie pitcher Madison Bumgarner.
If Only the Entire Sports World Were as Wacky
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Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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In front of him was a man holding a pitcher filled with some liquid.
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That's fine, but to make the transition from pitcher to slugging outfielder is phenomenal.
Ankiel's comeback has Cardinals back in swing
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Okay, that'll be a pitcher of Bud Light and four frosty mugs.
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In a local high school game several years ago, a pitcher lost a no-hitter because of that scoring rule.
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The pitcher is famous for the speed of his delivery.
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OK. It turns out the starting pitcher for the Red Sox has an unfortunate unibrow problem.
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The pitcher loaded the bases by walking three batters.
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The Padres are banking on improvement from several pitchers, headed by Ashby and Hamilton.
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Here seems to be an allusion to the lamps which Gideon's soldiers carried in earthen pitchers, Jud. vii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Kershaw was the starting pitcher that day.
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A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.
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The only motive to devote myself to study Nepenthes viking in habitat is curiosity. Its existence is quite interesting as well as its amazing pitcher shape.
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Start with a pitcher of Martinis and your favorite spouse.
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The proportions of hot water, tea and ice are perfectly balanced to produce a fresh 24 oz. pitcher of iced tea with each infuser.
Tea Forte on Ice!
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The first piece was a giraffe whose neck was the handle of a pitcher.
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Lugo projects to have good at-bats against left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales because Lugo is a good high ball hitter and Morales tends to make most of his mistakes up in the strike zone.
Scout's take: Boston Red Sox lineup analysis
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After all, the pitcher is the one player who can dominate and take control of a game.
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But he thinks other pitcher plant processes — predator-prey interactions, mutually beneficial species, the effects of disturbance — are found across ecosystems.
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This pitcher, or wine ewer, is truly a sculptural work of art and would be a conversation piece for any room or collection.
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Callum Balfour had been up for hours, mulling over accounts and business and chugging water with Alka Seltzer by the pitcherful.
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The photo at the end of the post shows this ant walking on the pitcher plant's tendrils - and is just one of the truly incredible photos taken by Mark in the book.
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Yes, he did, " answered Pitcher ． " I asked the secretarial school to send over a few this morning ．
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Their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks.
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Can you tell me the hitter and pitcher who played the longest in the minors without ever appearing in a major league game?
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Out on the field, he watched the opposing pitchers as they warmed up, noting how they set up on the mound, toeing the left or right side or middle of the rubber.
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Looking for starting pitchers with two starts during a given week will usually give an edge in "counting" categories such as wins and strikeouts, but two bad outings can ruin your "average" categories like ERA and WHIP.
If roto is routine, try a head-to-head format
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Why oh why oh why did the Yankees think it was wise to pay $82.5 million to this 34-year-old pitcher, who has proven himself so unreliable and ineffective that the mere mention of his name causes unflappable New Yorkers to seethe?
Sympathy for A.J. Is Not Tolerated Here
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Take one teaspoon of the solution from the bottle and put it into the pitcher full of water and leave it for thirty minutes.
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He poured the milk from the Pitcher.
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They are power pitchers with at least three of these components on their fastball.
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The biggest problem was that Italy starting pitcher was good and ours was bad.
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Starting pitcher Andy Pettitte watched Hughes work from the dugout in the seventh inning and said the way Hughes' fastball was rising, it looked a little bit like Mariano Rivera's devastating cutter.
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The beaker in front of the first pitcher is a prize example of Anthony Rasch's New Orleans work, about 1825 to 1835.
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I can't imagine what a pitcher is thinking in the eighth and ninth inning of a no-hitter.
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The wine is fairly dry and needs a little aeration to open it up, so decant into a carafe, water pitcher, etc., 30 minutes before serving.
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The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning.
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That axiom is also true in fantasy baseball, where managing a pitching staff down the stretch is often the key to winning a championship because major league teams often don't have the same agendas for their pitchers as fantasy owners do.
Keep eye on starters' workloads heading down the stretch
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A pitcher throws to different parts of the plate, trying to keep the hitter off balance.
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The pitcher has to focus on his wrist movement and finger placement to keep the softball from cutting, techniques he hopes to carry into games.
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Setbacks: Highly-regarded pitchers Rob Purvis, a supplemental first-rounder from the 1999 draft, and Gary Majewski each struggled.
USATODAY.com - White Sox 2002 prospect report
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he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital
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He's fast enough to swipe bases on pitchouts, but he needs to learn how to read pitchers to know when to run.
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The pitcher stared down Pat Burrell after a called third strike to end the first, and Burrell jawed at Halladay while sprinkling in profanities.
Phillies Extend NLCS With Game 5 Victory, Giants Lead 3-2
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The pitcher tagged him out on a steal of home.
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The importance of prolonging the moistened condition as long as possible is further shown by special adaptations to retain water either between the appressed lobes of the leaves or in special pitcher-like sacs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Couldn't you or I lounge in a baseball dugout and decide whether the pitcher should bunt?
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With home shopping out of the way, Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing.
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The pitch was high, but Dante swung, hitting a dribbler back to the pitcher, who threw home to the catcher, who threw to first base, double play, game over.
Parents Behaving Badly
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The pitcher is famous for the speed of his delivery.
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There I stand in a gown and high heels, tresses piled femininely atop my head, and yet my shoulders slump forward like a pitcher on the mound, my forehead crumples, and I become decidedly resolute as I recite my carefully composed vows:
Live and Let Love
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Bladderworts, pitcher plants, and sundews all indulge their carnivorous tastes.
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My way of fighting back was to try to drive the ball as hard as I could through the pitcher's box for a base hit.
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John le Grant sat with the others, casting a glance at the pitcher as he passed.
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One of the memorably named ball players of all time was the journeyman 1950s pitcher.
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When the starting pitcher gets tired or is having an off day, a team manager calls in a reliever.
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Books and scrolls are nearby, as are servants attending him with a wine pitcher and bringing a large covered jar.
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There may not be a pitcher in baseball with a more promising future.
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The sugar bowl and the cream pitcher are permitted to be serving maids of delicacies, but I am the one who gives forth, the adviser.
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Capable of trapping and absorbing insects, as the pitcher plant.
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The learning experience can be painful for a young pitcher if his team is in a fierce fight for a title.
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Kile is among a handful of top-flight pitchers headed toward free agency.
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J Valentin bunted into fielder's choice to pitcher, P Konerko out at second.
American League Baseball - White Sox vs. Mariners
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Foremost was that pitchers should throw every day, not throw hard, but just lob the ball and play catch to loosen up.
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the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation
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On a foot-tall ewer 12th to 14th century, a dragon dives into the round belly of the pitcher, its tail curling into a handle, its head bursting out the other end as a spout.
Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul
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The pitcher threw a high inside pitch to brush the batter back.
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The four starters, key pitchers in this series, were more than a full run higher at 3.52.
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We have a lot of groundball pitchers, so it's a point of emphasis.
Diamondbacks put emphasis on defense
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Later on, when the wine and water have got thoroughly mixed, he draws off another jarful and again fills up the pitcher with water.
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this pitcher throws more strikes than balls
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This level of analysis will tell you a compact gymnast is favored and a good baseball pitcher is usually tall.
Tingilinde:
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They signed two new pitchers for the next season
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Wright, the youngest pitcher to start in the Series since Bret Saberhagen in 1985, improved to 3-0 in the postseason.
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The butler reappeared instantly bearing a silver tea tray with a glass of ice and a pitcher of cold water, which he poured into the glass and offered to me.
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At the same time, the washstand, with its bowl and pitcher, jumped forward and turned over.
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The strikeout is essentially the pitcher's unassisted contribution to the game.
Andy McDonald: Hail to the King, Baby
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He worked the pitcher for a base on balls.
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In my first at-bat, I hit one right back to the pitcher, Don Drysdale, who fielded the ball and threw me out.
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No drug can eliminate that mental torment when a hitter is supposed to deliver or a pitcher is supposed to succeed.
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Any pitcher can get overused or take a ball off their head and pow - in an instant the whole rotation or pen has changed.
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Jimmy wasn't double-jointed, but he used a similar motion to that of a double-jointed pitcher.
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Brunch can mean just about anything to your date, though, from an English muffin with butter to Nova Scotia lox on a bagel with a side of caviar and a pitcher of mimosas.
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Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
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Each of the cuplike traps on an Attenborough's pitcher plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii's) is as big as an American football—making the pitchers among the largest known.
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By Charles Krupa, AP Game 3 starting pitcher Derek Lowe, left, and the rest of the Red Sox erupt from the dugout after Nixon's 11th-inning home run.
USATODAY.com - Nixon's homer in 11th inning keeps Red Sox alive
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You've got four or five trophic levels in a pitcher plant, just like you've got four or five trophic levels in a lake, " said Ellison.
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John le Grant sat with the others, casting a glance at the pitcher as he passed.
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Only a slob would make and refrigerate a pitcherful in advance.
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The pitcher retired three batters
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Save your trades and bargain buys for starting pitchers and position players.
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Trees are poisonous and giant pitcher plants carnivorous.
Times, Sunday Times
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By opening the vault and hauling out $120 million, the Phillies added one of baseball's best pitchers, Cliff Lee, to a rotation that already includes two bonafide aces in Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt, a potential superstar in Cole Hamels and a solid citizen in Joe Blanton.
The Year of the Killer Rotation?
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Pollan in Ireland are a relatively short-lived fish, with most authors (e.g. Twomey 1956; Wilson and Pitcher 1983) encountering fish of up to five years old.
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He's not a power pitcher, but he can get his breaking stuff over no matter the count.
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The statistics don't reflect, for instance, how many times pitchers plunk batters with changeups, curveballs or other off-speed pitches, or how much effort a hitter makes to get out of the way.
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Pitcher Hal Gregg even hit a home run into the left field bullpen.
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In Borneo and Malaysia, the Nepenthes pitcher plant traps insects using a jug-shaped attachment, or pitcher, at the end of its leaves.
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The Twins were victimized by their own pitcher in a play involving baserunning miscues of the Little League variety.
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See the accompanying chart for pitchers and position players with the most years of major league service.
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The pitcher dusted off the opponent.
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Wilhelm and Niekro are the only two pitchers in the Hall of Fame who relied primarily on the knuckleball throughout their careers.
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If you enjoy watching pitchers throw baseballs from the mound toward the plate rather than folding chairs from the bullpen into the stands, then Tuesday was your kind of night.
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Pitchers aim to keep hitters off-balance by mixing their pitches, such as following a fastball with a changeup.
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Only two pitchers with 3,000 or more strikeouts failed to win a league strikeout title.
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Unlike a hockey goalie or a baseball pitcher, one dominant player is not enough to determine a game.
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A very colorful barbotine pitcher from the earthenware majolica factory of Monaco with floral motifs and a snake handle.
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No major league pitcher, to our knowledge. has ever matched his feat of retiring three runners on pickoff throws in one inning
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Luca, in scarlet coat and cloak, was beneath the big banner at the entrance watching coins clink into the glass pitcher, clink again as they were dropped into the strongbox.
Knife of Dreams
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In this study, we present the patterns of genetic differentiation of pitcher plant populations based on chloroplast DNA haplotype analysis using the sequences of five spacers.
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The evidence that the pitchers of woe about pending national insolvency are actually more worried about entitlements than insolvency is pretty clear to me: While entitlements are totally driving the long-term fiscal crisis, they have not a word of criticism for entitlements.
Grading the President in Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Hitters have their own nominees for bowling ball pitchers, whose deliveries reverberate through their arms and bodies when they make contact.
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Rule 8.01 says that once a pitcher starts his windup he must continue ‘without interruption or alteration.’
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Shoot from the stands to have the batter in the lower foreground with the pitcher in the upper midground.
How to shoot baseball and softball
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Break the windup into segments - such as stepback, leg kick, release and follow-through - that allow pitchers to isolate each of the steps.
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The old women had brought pitchers full of buttermilk and loads of bread baked in tandoors.
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The pitcher struck out both batters in the ninth inning and saved the game.
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The exhibition is on view until December 31 and includes ceramics, bone and metal implements, goblets, pitchers, fragments of marionettes, and Chinese porcelain.
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That's what you call a dominating pitcher," Benecke said.
Undefined
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He caught every type of pitch imaginable, some that are not legal today such as shine balls, spitballs and emery balls, from some of the greatest pitchers of his day.
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Six pitchers, possibly more, have a shot at winning the fourth or fifth starting job.
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As a pitcher, Luther is better than James by a long chalk.
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Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
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Carrying a glass pitcher full of dark-brown liquid, with a healthy head of foam on it, he places it and two drinking bowls before us.
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Wick downed the rest of the glass of beer and poured from the pitcher.
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~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~ tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles
Brocante / Antiques
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The handle in the shape of a hound dog was a popular treatment for mid-nineteenth-century pitcher handles.
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New York won the game the hard way after scheduled starting pitcher, Phil Hughes, was pulled due to a back problem.
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Stairs will start against righthanded pitchers, Ochoa against most lefties.
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Simply place a dry coffee filter in a clean drip coffee filter basket or colander, and place the basket or colander over a clean dry pitcher or bowl.
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Twenty years after being saved from unemployment by his reputation as a solid left-handed pitcher, David N. Mullany was once again out of work.
Making a Wiffle Ball
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Both pitchers presented with pain, tenderness, and swelling over the medial epicondyle of the humerus of the pitching arm.
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March 2, 2008 at 9:46 am liek mai caz – dem am mekkin up 4 teh lak ob a kitteh in teh pitcher!
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The blue pitcher has yellow bands around the neck.
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Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
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Baseball's going to need to get a lot smarter on how to value players, especially pitchers.
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But in softball, the pitcher must throw the ball underhand.
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As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
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People think that a pitcher who throws a no-hitter totally dominates the game, but that isn't always true.
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My glass of draught Kronenberg was expensive at £2.50: but Lili's pitcher of iced tap water, complete with slices of lemon, lime and orange, was free and gratis.
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You could buy unflashy batters far cheaper than superstar pitchers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Starting pitcher Andy Pettitte watched Hughes work from the dugout in the seventh inning and said the way Hughes' fastball was rising, it looked a little bit like Mariano Rivera's devastating cutter.
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Which, as we know, is death on a platter with two sides and bread for a pitcher.
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Radar gun readings gauge the raw ability of pitchers, but no such measure exists for hitters.
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A small bowlful of curd can turn a whole pitcher of milk into curd.
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their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks
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At the trial before His Honour Judge Pitchers the prosecution relied on expert evidence in relation to other documents alleged to have been written by the appellant for comparison purposes.
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The only motive to devote myself to study Nepenthes viking in habitat is curiosity. Its existence is quite interesting as well as its amazing pitcher shape.
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No drug can eliminate that mental torment when a hitter is supposed to deliver or a pitcher is supposed to succeed.
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Anyway, it won me a pitcher of Fosters, which I forgot to cash in.
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At times certain Euro cultures deviated from the standard (the French during the 1600's are no exception) but - on the whole, the party line trotted out is so far from the truth; And, if nobody bathed, why did the victorians turn out such beautiful marble washtstands basins and pitchers for this purpose?
Modest Active Wear
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The relief pitcher got credit for a save.
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I mean, couldn't they get some pitchers of Satan or, leastwise, Obamandingo?
Men Pursuing Purity
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It is time to pull the pitcher and put in the reliever.
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Wrap it in a rag and put it in a pitcher with a little sage, horsemint and other sweating herbs.
More Than 'Just a Spoonful of Sugar' May Be Required
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Each table had silverware and a clean glass pitcher of syrup.
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One theory behind this madness is the World Baseball Classic has thrown off pitchers 'spring routines, which would account for some dead arms, while others are working to build their stamina.
USATODAY.com - No time to panic yet
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Pitcher Jeff Juden is still bedridden with acute tonsillitis.
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‘I'm getting base hits because the pitcher isn't getting borderline strikes called,’ Johnson says.
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The pitcher has beaned as many as three batters in this game.
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As we trudged through the dense rainforest we spotted several species of birds and pitcher plants.
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There I found Camponotus schmitzi workers crawling on pitcher plants that grow as vines at the base of the meranti.
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Well lah-di-dah, we actually don't think you are worth " a pitcher of warm spit" as John Wayne once said dave s
SNEERING COMEDIANS....
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His list of vices began and ended with the bedevilment of opposing pitchers.
WILLIE MAYS
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Carlos Zambrano -- who almost defines the term "mercurial" -- can put his head in the game tonight long enough to beat a tough pitcher in Braves made bigger news than their loss last night; just a couple of days after I asked Martin at the Braves released him.
Bleed Cubbie Blue
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The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning
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She afterwards declared that when she saw the two sitting there so innocent-like, not dreaming of the _comether_ she had put upon them, she secretly and unbeknownt let a few tears fall into the cream-pitcher.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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Plenty of pitchers, including Mariano Rivera, Eric Gagne and David Wells, have had phenomenal postsurgical success; the news isn't the end of the road for Strasburg by any means.
Stephen Strasburg: What is Tommy John surgery?
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What had been a tightly played game suddenly turned into a free-for-all as the pitcher lost control.
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It's easy to compile a list of big league pitchers who went from stopper to plugger.
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In game two, pitcher Alisha Seifert '05 scattered three hits leading to the complete-game shutout of the Knights.
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It is regarded as being akin to rocket fuel so just imagine what state a person or persons would be in if they purchased a pitcher of the stuff.
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Whether it's pitchers doctoring baseballs, batters corking bats or electricians creating an eye in the sky cheating system, historically, individuals and teams sometimes do whatever is necessary to gain an edge.
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Filled with a bouquet, a creamware pitcher injects life and warmth without detouring off the clean, white path.
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Celt, and certainly no Barney McCrea of her day would have kissed her if she had spilled ever so many pitchers of sweet buttermilk over the plain; so we took the railway, and departed with delight for Limavady, where Thackeray, fresh from his visit to Charles Lever, laid his poetical tribute at the stockingless feet of Miss Margaret of that town.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
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Take an earthen pitcher or any suitable container which should be clean and washed properly.
