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    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...
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    Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps...
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    baseball (hardball or softball), a starting pitcher or starter is the first pitcher in the game for each team. A pitcher is credited with a game started if they...
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    League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team...
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  • control pitcher, also known as a finesse pitcher, is a pitcher who succeeds mostly by using accurate pitches, as opposed to a power pitcher who relies...
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    "winning pitcher") and one pitcher on the losing team is given a loss (the "losing pitcher") in their respective statistics. These pitchers are collectively...
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    softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who pitches in the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher has been removed from...
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    switch-pitcher is an ambidextrous pitcher who is able to pitch with either the right or left hand from the pitcher's mound. Four 19th-century pitchers are...
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    Molly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. She is most often identified as Mary Ludwig Hays, who fought...
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  • George Pitcher may refer to: George Pitcher (journalist), British journalist, author and Anglican priest George Pitcher (philosopher), American philosopher...
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    In American English, a pitcher is a container with a spout used for storing and pouring liquids. In English-speaking countries outside North America,...
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    Henry William Pitcher VC (20 December 1841 – 5 July 1875) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. Pitcher was born at Kamptee in British India...
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    play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries...
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    Baseball record for home runs hit while playing the position of pitcher. He hit 37 as a pitcher. Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Warren Spahn are tied...
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    Sarracenia purpurea, the purple pitcher plant, northern pitcher plant, turtle socks, or side-saddle flower, is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae...
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    nih-PEN-theez) is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus...
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    The Broken Pitcher is the artwork of French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau.The painting was completed in 1891.It was the first artwork of William-Adolphe...
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    contains one species, Cephalotus follicularis the Albany pitcher plant, a small carnivorous pitcher plant. The pit-fall traps of the modified leaves have...
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  • In baseball, a middle reliever, or middle relief pitcher, is a relief pitcher who typically pitches during the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings of a standard...
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    nicknamed "the Big Unit", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (1988–2009) for six teams...
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    Heliamphora (redirect from Marsh pitcher)
    "amphora") contains 24 species of pitcher plants endemic to South America. The species are collectively known as sun pitchers, based on the mistaken notion...
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  • League Baseball (MLB), the Pitcher of the Month Award is given monthly during the regular season to two outstanding pitchers, one each in the National...
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  • Senator Pitcher may refer to: Fred B. Pitcher (1867–1924), New York State Senate Perley A. Pitcher (1877–1939), New York State Senate This disambiguation...
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    overhand pitcher's hopping backspin. Submarine pitches are often the toughest for same-side batters to hit (i.e., a right-handed submarine pitcher is the...
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    Max Fried (category Major League Baseball pitchers)
    (/ˈfriːd/ FREED; born January 18, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously...
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  • The Sporting News established the Pitcher of the Year Award in 1944 to recognize the most outstanding pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB). It was given...
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  • Fernández (right-handed pitcher) (1992–2016), Cuban-American baseball pitcher José Fernández (pitcher, born 1993), Dominican baseball pitcher José Fernández (third...
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    Sarracenia (redirect from Trumpet pitcher)
    genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which...
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    Jennings (born April 17, 1987) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins, Chicago...
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    California pitcher plant, the Oregon pitcher plant, cobra lily or cobra plant—is a species of carnivorous plant in the new world pitcher plant family...
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