In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws 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 it or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1. In most cases, the object of a pitch is to deliver the ball to the catcher without allowing the batter to hit the ball. The ball is delivered in such a way that the batter either can't hit a pitch through the strike z ...

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• Pitcher - Pitching in a game
• Pitcher - After the ball is pitched
• Pitcher - Significant pitchers
• Pitcher - Baseball Hall of Fame members
• Pitcher - Other noteworthy pitchers

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The families of Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae are the best-known and most speciose groups of pitcher plants. The Nepenthaceae contains a single genus, Nepenthes, containing about 70 species and numerous hybrids and cultivars. In these Old World pitcher plants, the pitchers are borne at the end of tendrils that extend from the midrib of an otherwise unexceptional leaf. The plants themselves are often climbers, accessing the canopy of their habitats using the aforementioned tendrils, although others are found on t ...

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Effective pitching is vitally important in baseball. In baseball statistics, for each game, one pitcher will be credited with winning the game, and one pitcher will be charged with losing it. However, pitching is also physically demanding, especially if the pitcher is throwing with maximum effort. A full game usually involves 120-170 pitches thrown by each team, and most pitchers begin to tire before they reach this point. As a result, the pitcher who starts a game often will not be the one who finishes it, and he may not be recovered enough ...

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In baseball, a pitcher is credited with a win (or "W") when, in a game won by his team, he is the team's pitcher at the time that his team takes a lead that it does not relinquish for the remainder of the game. An exception to this is that a pitcher who starts a game cannot be credited with a win if he does not pitch at least five innings. If his team takes a lead it does not relinquish while that pitcher is in the game, the win is awarded to the relieving pitcher who, in the judgment of the scorer, pitched the most effectively. The winning pitcher cannot, however, be a ...

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• Win baseball - Records
• Win baseball - Career wins

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Image:000-MLB-Bob Lemon.jpg Robert Granville Lemon (September 22, 1920 - January 11, 2000) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. Born in San Bernardino, California, Lemon virtually had three careers in the baseball: one as a light-hitting left batter and sub-par third baseman, another as a stellar right-handed pitcher, an ...

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Warren Edward Spahn (April 23, 1921 – November 24, 2003) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for 21 seasons, all in the National League. Although never quite as dominating as some, he was both astonishingly consistent and durable. He won 20 games in 13 different seasons, and compiled a 23-7 record when he was aged 42. He won more games than any other left-handed pitcher, or any other pitcher who played his entire career in the post-1920 live-ball era, and is acknowledged as one of the best lef ...

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• Warren Spahn - Quotations

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Ben M. Sheets (born July 18, 1978 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. He possesses one of the best fastballs in the Major Leagues, a four-seam fastball clocked between 94-98 MPH, a big, slow breaking curveball in the 78-81 MPH range, and a changeup. He also has great command of his three pitches. Sheets graduated from St. Amant High School and went to college at Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship. He once struck out 20 batters in a game against Louisiana Tech, a fe ...

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Denton True Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) He was the pre-eminent baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. His nickname "Cy" is short for "Cyclone" (as he himself stated, since barns and fences supposedly showed tornadic damage after encountering one of his pitches) and because his fastball was blindingly fast. He was born in Gilmore, Ohio, a tiny village near Newcomerstown, Ohio whe ...

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• Cy Young - Career statistics
• Cy Young - Interesting fact
• Cy Young - External link

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Baseball Stars is a 1989 baseball game that was produced for the NES by SNK. It became a major hit in many countries worldwide, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Baseball Stars - Features. Baseball Stars was one of the first sports games to have data memory, therefore players could create a team, configure a small baseball league, and play a whole season (all while the CPU stored cumulative statistics). Baseball Stars was also the first sports game to have the ...

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• Baseball Stars - Features
• Baseball Stars - Gameplay
• Baseball Stars - Seasons and vs.
• Baseball Stars - Teams
• Baseball Stars - Statistics
• Baseball Stars - Player improvements
• Baseball Stars - Batters
• Baseball Stars - Pitchers
• Baseball Stars - Sequels

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Second in career home runs (714) First in career slugging percentage (.690) Third in career runs scored (2174) Second in career runs batted in (2213) Third in career base on balls (2062) Set single season record with 60 home runs (now is fifth all-time) Led American League in home runs 12 times Led American League in slugging percentage 13 times Led American League in runs scored 8 times Led American League in runs batted in 6 times AL MVP ...

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• Babe Ruth - Early days
• Babe Ruth - The Red Sox years
• Babe Ruth - Ruth the pitcher
• Babe Ruth - Emergence as a hitter
• Babe Ruth - Growing problems
• Babe Ruth - Sold to New York
• Babe Ruth - Ruth the Yankee
• Babe Ruth - Impact on Baseball
• Babe Ruth - Increased Attendance
• Babe Ruth - Beginning of the live ball era
• Babe Ruth - The Greatest Season Ever
• Babe Ruth - Troubled season
• Babe Ruth - The House That Ruth Built
• Babe Ruth - The Bellyache Heard Around the World
• Babe Ruth - Return to the top
• Babe Ruth - 1927: A Team for the Ages
• Babe Ruth - 1928: Repeat
• Babe Ruth - Personal life
• Babe Ruth - Personality
• Babe Ruth - Marital separation and the death of first wife
• Babe Ruth - New marriage
• Babe Ruth - 1929–31
• Babe Ruth - Last Glory: The Called Shot
• Babe Ruth - Decline and end with Yankees
• Babe Ruth - Return to Boston
• Babe Ruth - Retirement and later years
• Babe Ruth - Illness
• Babe Ruth - Death
• Babe Ruth - Statistics
• Babe Ruth - Trivia
• Babe Ruth - The Home Run Asterisk

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The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, the culmination of the sport's postseason each October. It is played between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy, as well as World Series rings. Baseball has employed various championship formulas since the 1850s. The modern World Series has been an annual even ...

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• World Series - Introduction
• World Series - Precursors to the World Series 1857-1901
• World Series - The modern World Series 1903-present
• World Series - The first attempt
• World Series - The boycott of 1904
• World Series - List of World Series after 1904
• World Series - 1905-1919: The Dead ball era
• World Series - 1920-1941: The Live Ball Era sometimes The Golden Age
• World Series - 1942-1945: The War Years
• World Series - 1946-1960: The Mad Dash and all New York
• World Series - 1961-1968: The Era of Pitchers
• World Series - 1969-1976: Miracles Dynasties and Fisk Waves It Fair
• World Series - 1977-1992: Mr. October and Surprises
• World Series - 1993-1997: Carter's Blast The Player's Strike Tomahawk Choppin' The Florida Who? and Resurgence of the Yankees
• World Series - 1998-present: Yankee Domination the November Series Rally Monkeys Fighting Fish and Curses Reversed

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In baseball, a closer is a relief pitcher who specializes in closing games, i.e., getting the final outs in a close game. Since closers appear almost exclusively when a game is on the line, the role usually goes to a team's best reliever. Closers, while typically possessing as much pitching talent as any other pitcher on their respective teams, may not have a wide enough variety of pitches or enough reliability over several innings to become a starting pitcher. Some closers, however, have been starting pitchers who due to injury or fading durability became closers later in the ...

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In baseball, the Cy Young Award is an honor given annually to the best pitchers in the Major Leagues. The award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young who passed away in 1955. The award was originally given to the single best pitcher in the major leagues. In 1967, the year after Frick retired as Commissioner, the practice began of honoring one pitcher in each league. The award is voted on by 28 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Each places a vote f ...

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• Cy Young Award - Controversy
• Cy Young Award - List of Cy Young Award winners
• Cy Young Award - Major Leagues Combined 1956-1966
• Cy Young Award - American League 1967-present
• Cy Young Award - National League 1967-present

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In baseball, a complete game (denoted by CG) is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game himself, without the benefit of a relief pitcher. A complete game can be either a win or a loss. As demonstrated by the charts below, in the late 1800's, it was common for most good pitchers to pitch a complete game almost every start. As the 20th century went on, complete games became less and less common, to the point where a good pitcher typically achieves only 1 or 2 complete games a season today. To put in perspective, as recently ...

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• Complete game - Career Leaders
• Complete game - Active Career Leaders
• Complete game - Single-season Leaders

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Howard Bruce Sutter (born January 8, 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who became possibly the first pitcher to make effective use of the split-finger fastball. One of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he became the only pitcher to lead the National League in saves five times (1979-1982, 1984), and retired with 300 saves – at the time, the third highest total in history, behind Rollie Fingers (341) and Rich "Goose" Gossage (302), and an N ...

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1868, May 12: The United States Patent Office grants patent to Dr. Samuel Pitcher of Barnstable, Massachusetts for a cathartic composed of senna, sodium bicarbonate, essence of wintergreen, taraxicum, sugar and water. The United States Patent image is located at this link. Castoria was initially sold under the name Pitcher's Castoria. In 1871, The Centaur Company was formed by Charles Henry Fletcher at 80 Varick Street, New York City to purchase the rights to and manufacture Pitcher's Castoria. It was renamed Fletcher's Castoria. Together with Demas Barnes and Joseph B. Rose who had purchased the formula for Centau ...

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James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter (April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999) was a prolific Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher between 1965 and 1979. Hunter was known as a skilled control pitcher and was one of the best big game pitchers during the early 1970's. He won 21 or more games five years in a row (1971-1975) and tied for the major league lead in wins in 1974 (25) and 1975 (23). Hunter also led the major leagues in Earned Run Average in 1974 while while winning the American League Cy Young Award. Hunter earned ...

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• Catfish Hunter - Career statistics
• Catfish Hunter - Quotes

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In baseball, a pitcher may commit a number of illegal motions or actions which constitute a balk. When a balk occurs, immediate ensuing play is allowed to continue. If each baserunner advances one base safely, the infraction is ignored. Otherwise, the balk is called "no pitch" and each runner is awarded one base. There are two motivations behind the balk rule. A pitcher is constrained to a certain set of motions prior to and during a pitch; if these are violated, a procedural balk will be called. Some pitching ...

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• Balk - Balkable actions
• Balk - Clarifications
• Balk - Common Misconceptions

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William Arthur "Candy" Cummings (October 18, 1848 - May 16, 1924) was a 19th century professional baseball pitcher in the National Association and National League. Cummings had a brief but influential career. During a career which lasted from 1872 until 1877, Cummings compiled a 145-94 career record and 2.49 ERA while playing for five different teams. He is credited with being the first pitcher to throw a curveball, which he first threw at a game in Worcester, Massachusetts while playing for the Brooklyn Stars. Cummings ...

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