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pitcher

/pich-er/US // ˈpɪtʃ ər //UK // (ˈpɪtʃə) //

投手,投手们,投球手,投手的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids.
    • : Botany. a pitcherlike modification of the leaf of certain plants.an ascidium.

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Examples

  • For a club to field three or more starting pitchers who it had drafted in a single class is rare.

  • Remarkably, lefty pitchers make it to the big leagues about three times as frequently as righties, given their share of the general population.

  • However, seeing two of the best power hitters of their generation tee off on opposing pitchers has to be a welcome sight for a team that had visions of this back when Stanton and Judge were first united.

  • The most strikeouts any pitcher has managed in that time frame since 2015 was Corey Kluber, who fanned 127 batters in 98 innings over 13 starts in 2017.

  • Emerging homegrown ace Luis Castillo, one of the top strikeout pitchers in the game, was joined last year by Sonny Gray and Trevor Bauer to form a potential quality rotation.

  • You meant to chase every glass of wine with a pitcher of H2O, but the holiday cheer somehow steered you off course.

  • The more I become dissipated, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I too become a creative artist in that great revival of art.

  • A pitcher's life is one day of deliberate self-injury, followed by three days of healing, then a fresh injury.

  • I grew up in a house that had butter on the table and a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge.

  • Sitting in that plastic pitcher, she said, the water seemed to sparkle.

  • "Here's a white pitcher, Jess," Violet called, holding up a perfect specimen with a tiny chip in its nose.

  • "Because I thought a pitcher wouldn't hold lemonade enough," said Willy.

  • “My last activity shall be for the birds,” she smiled, as she came back with the pitcher.

  • But there was no food upon the table, nor anything else except a pitcher of water, a bundle of weeds and a handful of pebbles.

  • There were sweet potatoes, fleecy biscuits, a jug of sorghum, and a pitcher of sweet milk.