How To Use Pitching In A Sentence

His pitching was a legend among major league hitters.
‘We are pitching for new clients every week, and expanding our mid-cap company sector,’ he said.
In a bunt, the aircraft experiences a rapid, uncontrolled, tight forward pitching rotation.
He's a rookie, spent a year in the minors after pitching for Stanford.
What a wonderful place the city had been to leave, as I looked down at it through the free and lucid air, the plane pitching in the thunderstorm which loomed as usual over Kenscoff.

Great news for all you crazy Westlife fans who like to go camping - the fabulous fivesome will be appearing in the flesh at HMV next Friday so get pitching your tents!
The experiment indicated that the angular rate sensor can sense the angular rate of pitching of rotating carrier.
It was the "cluk-cluk" of water moving about inside the butt, its motion being caused by the pitching of the ship, and a slight rolling of the cask itself, which had not been steadily "cleated" in its place. The Boy Tar
The dynamic hysteresis depend on reduced frequency pitching rates and pivot positions.
It also places more importance on high pitching moments at high speeds, and less on the ones at low speeds.
He was pitching for Mike's Diner in Class B sandlot baseball when he was signed by a Boston Red Sox scout, receiving a $500 bonus.
The aircraft was pitching with turbulence and I was lurching about, bracing myself against the walls.
Pitching the protesting owner onto the dock, he switched the ignition on.
But unlike Mireles 'shot that recently ricocheted off the pitching machine and hit Peace's knee - leaving "dimples" - Peace's dinger missed Mireles. Undefined
Some companies are actively pitching for business.
For days at a time, a CEO must schlepp from city to city, pitching his or her company to skeptical investment bankers.
The defense has been respectable and the pitching decent.
He had just descended from the hayloft where he had been pitching down some fresh supplies for the horses.
Perhaps they'll end up pitching their tents somewhere on Romney Marsh.
Because some treat pitching for compensation like buying a lottery ticket, an attitude the legal eagles seem happy to encourage. The Sun
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
And despite underhand pitching, this isn't costume softball.
Then he mocks me with his voice, by pitching it about ten times higher than usual.
Online advertising firms are likely to be added to the list of media pitching for lucrative public information contracts under the new government.
Critics are blaming bungled attempts to find the right people to run the new Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service after pitching the initial salary too low to attract the right calibre of candidate.
And even then, with his own mount stumbling and nearly pitching him headforemost at each lurch, he was forced to admire the mare's goatlike agility, for she descended into the gorge in running leaps, never setting a wrong foot. In The Time Of Light
Like Detroit, the Arizona organization is well - stocked with genuine pitching prospects.
Stafford was one of 21 entrepreneurs pitching for funding at the First Tuesday event in Dublin last week.
He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.
The advertising account for Dublin Bus is out to tender, and it is believed over 20 agencies are pitching for it.
The pleasant rocking of the boat was replaced by a Perfect Storm pitching and yawing.
Instead of pitching around him and setting up a force at any base, he grooved one and the batter produced a two-run single.
NL West: Class AA LH Jeff Andra is another quality San Francisco pitching prospect. Minor league farm report
Scouts rave about the Cubs' abundance of young pitching - and with good reason.
In one episode, pitching hopefuls visit Citi Field, home of baseball's New York Mets, and get tips from former major-league hurler Frank Viola . Bud Angles for Buzz With Reality Show
Balfour's injury was the result of what manager Joe Maddon described as horseplay between the reliever and pitching coach Jim Hickey. CNY Central - Local News
While rain postponed the second of a three-game set between the AL Central Division rivals, they were able to rework their pitching rotations prior to concluding an abbreviated series Wednesday at Comerica Park. USATODAY.com
It already runs West Coast routes and is pitching for the East Coast.
Feliciano is on the disabled list with a strained rotator cuff, which is often synonymous with an injury to the teres minor muscle on the back of the pitching shoulder. The Pedro Feliciano Controversy
He will be in the batter's box facing Major League pitching every fifth day.
Since only a small area of the ship comes in contact with the waves, there should be less pitching, rolling and heaving in rough seas than on a conventional monohull ship of the same capacity. It Doesn't Rock, Rattle Or Roll
January 22, 2009 at 7: 52 pm if this is true then i actually think we have a better shot at getting him …. wheneer someone asks omar about a bat … he responds "pitching first" he hasnt even talked about dunn, abreu, hudson … etc … this means that once we get our rotation settled then i think he might want to get a bat and if manny is still there i dont see why he wouldnt go after him …. omar loves manny and says that he has always wanted manny on his team …. MetsBlog.com
It has fielded a third of the sales reps pitching the drug to internists. Money, Math And Medicine
Edwards, on the other hand, is pitching himself as the tribune for the forgotten Middle Americans who will protect their tax cuts.
You're pitching for business abroad and attending offshore meetings on a more regular basis.
Another gets a bit emotional when pitching her new hairstyling concept. Times, Sunday Times
Hitting coach Gerald Perry says opponents are pitching Buhner tougher than anyone in the lineup, and he has reacted to some borderline called strikes by chasing a few pitches he usually takes.
We'll see if, like his brother, Stephen can feast on Indy League pitching before making a rapid ascent to the bigs.
His pitching coach had been there since 6 a.m. "I'm not leaving until I know my buddy is okay, " he said.
So it made sense to Casey to load up with right-handers when the lefties were pitching, and vice versa.
The floor seemed to be pitching, like a boat rocked by waves.
Both pitchers presented with pain, tenderness, and swelling over the medial epicondyle of the humerus of the pitching arm.
Top-pitching and bud picking are favorable to Green Asparagus Bean based on the it's living habit and our experimental research.
While last year's top pitching prospects are at various stages of rehab from injuries, a new slew is making its presence felt. USATODAY.com
Retailers, sadly, are pitching to empty pockets and trying to flog 'woohoo' partywear to people with no place to 'woohoo'. Times, Sunday Times
The company is also pitching for government business in the Republic after entering a partnership with Version 1 software in Dublin.
The walking wounded sit, and the pitching is as thin as feared. USATODAY.com - AL Central preview
Taylor Swift's ridiculously entertaining new album, "Speak Now," is a lengthy, captivating exercise in woo-pitching, flame tending and score-settling -- with a heavy emphasis on the latter. Album review: Taylor Swift, "Speak Now"
He's one of those baseball lifers constantly pitching for his next paycheck.
That it should be pitching for the most coveted prizes in cinema is a far stranger fiction than the story itself. Times, Sunday Times
It also shows the club's commitment to bolstering a subpar pitching staff - a priority that's not always apparent.
She is pitching a TV show idea today at 5.30 pm.
The situation with the rotation is a growing concern for Brenly and pitching coach Chuck Kniffin. USATODAY.com - National League West
After we had seen the video everyone started pitching in with comments on its faults.
He called back, pitching his voice like a girl's.
And it is successfully pitching in at the upper end of the men's wear trade, producing high-quality suitings with Ireland the largest overseas market.
Hence, my advice is to concentrate on regional conferences and activities rather than pitching for events with national/international audiences.
Eventually, Davey Johnson, the Mets manager, stopped pitching Sisk at Shea, an embarrassing decision that the ballplayer glumly accepted. The One Met Their Fans Most Loved to Hate
It is currently pitching for a Government grant to create its own 40-seater cabaret-style cinema in a barn at Oxen Park.
Yogi Berra, another Yankee, gave him the most trouble until he got a tip from California pitching coach Marv Grissom.
The ship is pitching and rolling in what looks like about fifteen foot seas.
Mountain bikes feature a crosswise handlebar which helps prevent the rider from pitching over the front in case of sudden deceleration.
Soon, the big dive boat was pitching and rolling.
Looking back now, I could have made bogey and still won, but fortunately I had a good tee shot and pitching wedge into the green, and kind of eked my putt up there and tapped it in. StarTribune.com rss feed
Usually, their pitching is at the top of the league, but their 4.18 team ERA ranks just eighth. USATODAY.com - Bats give Braves new dimension
The boat's pitching all over the place, the mast is a 70-foot-tall, wet, slippery stick.
Operating on the premise that credit will improve over the next 12 to 18 months as the economy stabilizes, leading to higher earnings and fatter stock valuations, Morgan Stanley is pitching clients on the idea of selectively building positions in large-cap and mid-cap bank stocks even though bank shares are up about 8% since the end of second quarter earnings reports. Dan Dorfman: Banking's Good, Bad And Ugly
As players were getting bigger, ballparks and strike zones were getting smaller, bats and baseballs were getting harder and the quality of pitching was declining.
A hand tool for pitching hay.
Lewry kept pitching the ball on middle stump, yorking Mark Ealham and Swann.
The final was a real cracker with some marvellous pitching from both sides.
The boat, believed to have been ferrying illegal migrants, capsized, pitching more than 100 people into the sea.
Pitching quoits is common at family reunions and picnics.
On the first night only two out of 48 remained at dinner, the rest having succumbed to the pitching roll of the boat.
Hypertrophy is defined as either an increase in the size of the medial epicondylar apophysis of the pitching elbow or an increase in the thickness of the medial humeral cortex as compared to the contralateral elbow.
Was it just me or was he pitching his voice rather high?
In the fifth inning of an already snail-paced game, Martinez pulled starter Brandon Lyon, the first in what seemed like a hundred Toronto pitching changes (in reality only six).
To keep those guys to four hits in 10 innings in this ballpark is a testimony to the quality of pitching tonight. American League Baseball - Blue Jays vs. Red Sox
The best part is that pitching around while preserving the formants does really, really interesting things to the timbre of a voice: you can sound like a totally different person and still sound human.
History shows pitching players into the singles without a previous outing is a recipe for disaster. The Sun
It was middle-class votes they were pitching for.
Most such meetings also feature commercial displays and eager salesmen pitching their company's products.
This "might be something as nontraditional as putting on a photography show, " says McDowell -- or starting a blog, launching a business, or pitching in at a nonprofit.
During harvest time they were shocking bundles of grain and hauling them to the threshing outfit and pitching them into the separator.
Top-pitching and bud picking are favorable to Green Asparagus Bean based on the it's living habit and our experimental research.
As for the departing David Carpenter, he appeared to be a mid-level pitching prosect. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
'What do you call a heifer in a number-seven football jersey carrying an M-16 assault rifle?' he asked the assembly, pitching a gag he'd heard on Off The Ball. Be My Enemy
the pitching and tossing was quite exciting
Steve and I share a double-decker bunk room, and he comments on Ilona's adorability, before pulling the shades the sun doesn't set, but rather skims across the horizon and attempting to sleep in the pitching darkness. Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers
They went single file, stopping once to clear a rockfall, pitching splintered chunks of shale and hornfels into the groan - ing trench to their right. Wizard and Glass
The storm raged all day - the ship pitching and rolling heavily.
As if in slow motion, the horse stumbled, rolling his front legs and pitching his rider over his head.
I've got two wedges in addition to the pitching wedge that's part of my iron set.
What we saw at the start of the 2004 season was the potential for a breakout of young pitching dominance.
But although conditions are basic and power supplies sometimes fail, pitching the mess tent into darkness, no one is complaining too much.
If I was pitching that day, my warmup would generally consist of throwing someone's socks to the shotgun seat from the back.
Some are fishing, others are pitching pennies, others, again, playing various apparently harmless games, but all with eyes for the main chance -- an opportunity to steal anything come-at-able. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.
There aren't many teams with more pitching depth in the minors, but this bullpen is terrible.
I don't see it, which means TLR may announce next week his plans to audition Craig at the position next spring. dub the beachcomber: wave master, we have too many outfielders and the braves are looking for one. they have lots of pitching. do you see a match up? which card outfielder is most expendable and what caliber player could they bring? thanks joe STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
When I went into turn 13 I was just having an oversteering car pitching very much and obviously Michael had a clear run and caught my slipstream.
Super-sub Denny Hocking's ability to play well in the infield or outfield is the main reason the Twins have been able to carry a 12-man pitching staff.
We have gone out aggressively pitching for new business.
Attempts to re-light the boiler failed, and now the vessel was in real trouble; drifting, powerless, pitching and rolling, driven by wind and tide towards a sandbank in the dark.
One team with a surplus of pitching needs a center fielder.
The Southern League has favored pitching dramatically of late, though the Georgia outfielders will be playing in historically neutral parks.
His gutsy ten-inning pitching performance in that deciding game still stands out in Phillies' lore.
The staging was especially effective when the two families, each on a different level, feuded with each other before pitching themselves into a melee of movement using all three sections.
The unnatural construction of these molded seats is counterproductive to scooting up close to someone and pitching woo, which is of course where the love seat got its name. Sufficient Grace
Near 1,800 budding business owners responded, pitching ideas displaying ambitiousness, earnestness, smarts and yes, even misguided drive and planning. Facing the challenges of starting a small business
Swaying in the wind, they're concerned about the timing in getting on deck, with the ship pitching hard up and down.
I dont bash hendry, soriano or Z. I just never liked dempster since he's been on the cubs, starter or closer he's a great guy it seems but an average pitcher who has had some of the worst pitching collapse in the last 6 years. Chicagotribune.com -
Dbacks fan Leong15 is enjoying this below-the-line: Gallardo doesn't look as confident as in game 1, and his pitching shows it. 41 pitches in 2 innings, with Dice-Kesque nibbling of the corners with little success... Arizona Diamondbacks v Milwaukee Brewers - live! | Steve Busfield
Still, La Russa said he did not make the final decision to start Carpenter until Friday, and only did so after the pitching coach Dave Duncan had what La Russa called a heart-to-heart conversation with the pitcher to assess his true physical state. NYT > Home Page
Despite the closed hatches and the raised coaming of the hatch to the captain's quarters, a thin sheet of gray-blue water poured across the wooden deck of the captain's cabin. the Silberwelle continued to ride through a series of maneuvers, combining a slight tendency to corkscrew with irregular pitching of decreasing intensity. The Shadow Sorceress
Similarly if you are pitching a bivvy for a few days, move it back a bit.
Mike used a pitching wedge to hit a low, piercing drive into the 17th green for the ace.
Learning to bat takes a few cuts and the pitching and fielding controls are simple.
Huckabay advocates using ‘adjusted range factors,’ which calibrate for pitching staffs, ballpark effects, and so on.
I receive many letters from would-be entrepreneurs pitching their ideas.
There are many great offensive players in the game right now, maybe because the pitching is so awful.
Each of us took turns pitching the lime-stone into one of the sections, and then we would hop on one foot in each section to collect the lime-stone.
The first reference to a baseball-like game in America comes from a Christmas Day 1621 diary entry by Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Plantation, who notes some of his subjects “frolicking in ye street, at play openly; some at Virginia pitching ye ball, some at stoole ball and shuch-like sport.” WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
The unusual instrumentation, pitching clarinet against saxophone, gives the group an added facet. Times, Sunday Times
But today I'm going to go out on a limb, and predict the breakout of two more pitching prospects.
If it has an altitude-hold feature, it may cause the airplane to stall by pitching the nose up to maintain your selected altitude.
The National Pensions Reserve Fund is also interested in pitching for the M50 project.
They were, after all, still ensnarled in the whole mess, and the ennui of that debacle seemed to flood them with bad karma - not to mention bad relief pitching.
Torre indicated that Brown would be agreeable to pitching in relief.
The rear of his race car snapped out of control on the sodden track, pitching him into one barrier and then another and sending a clear warning to the rest of the drivers.
Collected from buckets at street corners, transferred to barrels, then shipped north, often to landing places where there was no harbour or beach, it was manhandled ashore from pitching boats.
We were pitching for some new clients and I had put a lot of work in.
And he was stronger than she was; he'd seen his world cloven in two and had merely adjusted his stride to match the pitching ground underneath his feet.
Winning the Triple Crown in pitching is great but I 'll have to think about that at another time," Johnson said. National League Major League Baseball - Colorado vs. Arizona
Hendley was a fireballer pitching for Lanier High School.
Free pitching isn't hated because it means established companies are in competition with unestablished ones - if anything, only established designers can afford to take part in the process - but because it is working for free. Double standards from the design industry
I don't mind pitching in a situation where staffing is short, supplies are scarce, morale is low.
While obvious fingers point to less PEDs and better pitching, a couple of guys wanted to talk about the uncommonly bad weather we've had this year.
Good chemistry is when a blooper falls when your team is hitting and is caught when your team is pitching.
Every inning seemed to feature runners on base, full counts, pickoff throws, pitching changes, and breaks to go wake up spectators who may have dozed off.
This proved to be easier than Richard had expected, and only three days after leaving Nairobi, he and his crew were pitching their tents on a sandy rise overlooking Lake Rudolf. Ancestral Passions
He threw the ball back to her and she gave the batter a whole two seconds before pitching the same ball.
As we got further out the waves got calmer, but for right now they were choppy and making the boat lurch from side to side, pitching with each rise and fall of a wave.
South ruffs a diamond in his hand, he takes the ace of clubs, ruffs a diamond, and leads the king and jack of clubs, pitching a spade from dummy when West covers.
ES: The key to pitching is to keep it short and simple. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Ellen Sandler
Don't rest on your laurels once you leave the office: pitching is also important in your personal life. Times, Sunday Times
Nearly 1,800 budding business owners responded, pitching ideas that displayed ambitiousness, earnestness, smarts and yes, even misguided drive and planning. Month 2: For business owners, finances are on their minds
He kept pitching the ball on middle stump.
We were pitching against a much larger company for the contract.
• But, then, everyone is now pitching at the well-heeled students, even the University of Winchester, where the fees are going up from £3,375 to £8,500. Hugh Muir's Diary
Tossing the caber and sheaf pitching are other crowd-pleasers.
Decide if you need a wedge with a loft between your sand wedge and pitching wedge.
You know, this is really pitching right into the hot days of the general election campaign and the reverberations are going to go on through the fall.
By pitching only the 19th perfect game in major league history, the Oakland southpaw finds his name grouped with some all-time greats. Times Record News Stories
He might have thought he was being a gamer by keeping quiet and pitching in pain last week.
The bardling tried to let the bird fly about in the pitching, rolling cabin, but Rak clung painfully to the boy's left fist, gasping and panting. Escape From Roksamur
Until the past decade, pitching wedges had 50 to 52 degrees of loft.
Reuters Education may wean away youth like Kasab from terror: Clinton Phuket: The confession of lone surviving 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab shows that he was "a young man without much purpose in life", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, pitching for good education and jobs to wean away the youth from "blandishment" of terrorist groups. India News Digest: Air India May Get Phased Equity Infusion
And his exuberance was almost uncontainable when it came to the notion of pitching to the networks the thin sliver of a sitcom non-idea concocted by myself and my screenwriting partners.
The Warriors, who won those titles consecutively from 2002-04, remained unbeaten in the league with a two-game lead -- and only three remaining -- by taking advantage of Sunnyside mistakes, running the bases well and receiving solid pitching from Daniel Espinosa and Billy Bejeckian to win 6-1 at home Friday. Home
Source:Splendor on the Diamond Rich Westcott, 2000; according to the same source, Hudson threw overhand before World War II, but developed a bone spur in his shoulder while pitching for his Army team, and came back after the war as a sidearmer. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
Varitek gets a ton of credit for being a wonderful handler of the pitching staff and a bulldog who goes all out and motivates the team and really helps out on defense, but that's all stuff that's pretty hard to quantify.
QR is pitching its shares as a play on China's demand for natural resources because Australia provides much of the coal needed by China's booming economy. Australian Rail IPO Marks Bet on Coal
The horse fell, pitching the rider forward.
On a team filled with players who are out of position or out of place, pitching was supposed to be a strength.
He's constantly pitching our services, but he always swings for the home run and whiffs, leaving it to lower-level salespeople to bring in the business that keeps us afloat.
If anything, both groups tend to over-represent pitching (31 percent of all non-Negro League and non-player selections), while significantly under-representing third basemen (five percent).
The round went a little quiet then and he bogeyed the 17th after pitching way over the green.
We've said the success of our pitching is the fact we didn't walk many hitters. USATODAY.com
Whoever coined the phrase pitching is 90 percent of the game either was really smart or was stating the obvious," Quade said. The Seattle Times
In 1984, the American baseballer Dock Ellis famously admitted that his 1970 no-hitter occurred while high on LSD ( 'Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and I was pitching to Jimi Hendrix, who was holding a guitar ...')," notes Anton Dolicek. Have any footballers been transfer-listed or sacked for being overweight?
The best club to pitch with is a sand wedge, not a pitching wedge.
It's also there in the way he ends notes in the verses, crescendoing and pitching up and then choking them off suddenly, cutting the sound short.
While obvious fingers point to less PEDs and better pitching, a couple of guys wanted to talk about the uncommonly bad weather we've had this year.
Swing low, sweet Chariot is left unaccompanied, but that involves a disturbing oddity of pitching at the start.
Enter Steve Nebraska, a goofy guy living in a small Mexican town with knack for hitting and pitching.
Well, let's say that I believe these two players will be, in one year's time, one of the 3 best 1-2 pitching prospect tandems in the minor leagues.
As I paid out I watched him come in, walking with the rolling gait of a sailor on a pitching deck.
He has a low-pitched, persuasive voice that can spin quite a spell over the listener when he's pitching a story and has probably done severe damage to many a publisher's budget in its time.
The world spun for a moment, finally settling at a thirty degree angle and pitching him off his bed.
He's moving from a hitters park inhabited by a wretched Royals squad to a neutral park with a good defensive team and pitching coach Leo Mazzone.
The pitching pitcher tonight, the Giants ace, is most famous for being - in the offseason pulled over with a small amount of marijuana in his car. Giants And Rangers Fans Talk Up Their Teams
Pitching cake with each other at birthday party is the most common scene — sweet, frolic, hurt, happiness or endurance?
But there's one music festival this summer where all three of those national theatrical treasures are pitching up. Times, Sunday Times
The boss called the Deans that morning and demanded that Paul skip pitching for the rest of the tour.63 Breadon also told the Deans to stop blabbing about their desire for new contracts. Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert
Just as he rested Tino Martinez and Larry Walker, La Russa has increasingly rested Sanders against dominant right-handed pitching.
A software firm chaired by former Baltimore Technologies boss Fran Rooney is one of ten companies pitching for funding at an investment forum this week.
Richard Chamberlain: The sound of King Lear pitching Eldorados, Didn't the Yuppie-angst thing die with "thirtysomething"? Pitching With The Stars
He said the key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging. USATODAY.com - Is D'backs' duo better than Koufax and Drysdale?
The rest of the pitching staff (especially behind Randy Wolf) looks ugly, but a good defense can do wonders for the dreggiest of dregs. Jonah Keri: 2010 MLB Predictions
Over the past several years, he's made his largest and chanciest investments in pitching, spending over $200 million on Josh Beckett SI.com

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