The ceremonial first pitch is a longstanding ritual of baseball in which a guest of honor throws a ball to mark the end of pregame festivities and the...
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The First Pitch is a 2012 bronze statue of James D. Griffin, by William Koch. It is located at Swan Street and Washington Street, outside Sahlen Field...
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In baseball, a first-pitch strike is when the pitcher throws a strike to the batter during the first pitch of the at bat. Statistics indicate that throwing...
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Fever Pitch (released as The Perfect Catch outside North America) is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by the Farrelly brothers. It...
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Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer which can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, or plants. Pitch produced from petroleum may be...
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worldwide. It is the first film in the trilogy and was followed by two sequels, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017). During the 2011 International...
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cricket pitch consists of the central strip of a cricket field between the two wickets. It is 22 yd (20.12 m) long (1 chain) and 10 ft (3.05 m) wide. The surface...
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Roki Sasaki (redirect from Monster of the Reiwa)
setting an NPB record. The MLB record for retiring consecutive batters is 46 by Yusmeiro Petit. Sasaki allowed a hit on the first pitch that he threw in his...
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A football pitch (also known as a soccer field in the United States) is the playing surface for the game of association football. Its dimensions and markings...
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2017 World Series (category October 2017 sports events in the United States)
from first base. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Springer hit a home run off the first pitch he saw off of Morrow, who was pitching for the third...
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baseball, the pitch is the act of throwing the baseball toward home plate to start a play. The term comes from the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, the ball...
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Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible...
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A pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. "Pitch" is the name for any of a number...
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Reggie Jackson (category Commons category link is defined as the pagename)
pitch at the Yankees' opening-day game, the last at the original Yankee Stadium. He also threw out the first pitch at the first game at the new Yankee...
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Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance. Concert pitch may vary from ensemble to ensemble...
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The Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of bitumen in the world, estimated to contain 10 million tons. It is located in La Brea in southwest Trinidad...
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Pitch Black (titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black on later re-releases) is a 2000 American science fiction action horror film directed by David...
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2021 World Series (category October 2021 sports events in the United States)
ceremonies, the national anthem was performed by Keke Palmer, and the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by former Astro and National Baseball Hall of Fame...
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hit batsman is awarded first base, provided that (in the plate umpire's judgment) he made an honest effort to avoid the pitch, although failure to do...
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A pitch invasion (also known as field storming, rushing the field or rushing the court) occurs when a person or a crowd of people spectating a sporting...
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2013 World Series (category October 2013 sports events in the United States)
his first relief appearance since 2004 and first in the postseason since 2002. Hall of Fame inductee Ozzie Smith threw the ceremonial first pitch while...
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UK) and Fever Pitch (2005, US). The first edition was subtitled "A Fan's Life", but later paperback editions were not. Fever Pitch, first published in...
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2016 World Series (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
threw the ceremonial first pitch before the game while members of the Cleveland Orchestra string section performed the national anthem. The pitching matchup...
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Exercise Pitch Black is a biennial warfare exercise hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The exercise is normally held in Northern Australia...
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example, if the notes Do and Fa are played on a piano, a person with relative pitch would be able to identify the second note from the first note given...
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Starting pitcher (category Pitching (baseball))
starter is the first pitcher in the game for each team. A pitcher is credited with a game started if they throw the first pitch to the opponent's first batter...
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Nomar Garciaparra (category Baseball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics)
per hour (140 km/h). After missing the first pitch, Nomar proceeded to hit solid line drives on the next two pitches. As a boy, Nomar was nicknamed "No...
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Aircraft principal axes (redirect from Yaw, pitch and roll)
and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail. The axes are alternatively...
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Hailey Dawson (section Ceremonial first pitches)
(born March 2, 2010) is an American girl who is the first person to throw out the ceremonial first pitch in all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. Born...
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with the Yankees' fierce rival, the Boston Red Sox. Incidentally, members of the 1986 Mets World Series team threw out the ceremonial first pitch before...
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