switch pitcher
switch pitcher noun: a pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
Noun
switch pitcher (plural switch pitchers)
- A pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
- As the result of a childhood injury, Larry Kimbrough became both a switch hitter and a switch pitcher, and he carried those abilities all the way to the only major leagues available to a black ballplayer in the early 1940s: the Negro League2000, Brent P. Kelley, The Negro leagues revisited: conversations with 66 more baseball heroes, →ISBN, page 142
Forms of switch pitcher
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Origin of switch pitcher
By analogy with switch hitter.
Questions about switch pitcher
- What does switch pitcher mean?
- Switch pitcher means a pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
- What part of speech is switch pitcher?
- Switch pitcher is a noun.
- What is the plural of switch pitcher?
- The plural of switch pitcher is switch pitchers.
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