pitching up

Verb

pitch up (third-person singular simple present pitches up, present participle pitching up, simple past and past participle pitched up)

1. (informal, intransitive) To arrive; to turn up.
   • David Cameron pitched up in New York at lunchtime on Wednesday for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly less than a week after an ecstatic reception on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.2011, "David Cameron outlines foreign policy philosophy – but don't call it a doctrine", Wintour and Watt Blog, The Guardian
2. (transitive) To raise the pitch of (a sound).
3. (transitive) To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length.