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relief pitcher en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, ejection from the game or fatigue.
   • The team's relief pitchers have not allowed a run in the past six games.

Forms

Relateds

middle relief pitcher · long reliever · closer · mop-up man · set-up pitcher

Synonyms

reliever

Translations (5)

fi vaihtosyöttäjä (baseball: replacement pitcher) · ja 救援投手 (baseball: replacement pitcher) · ko 소방수 (baseball: replacement pitcher) · ca llançador de relleu (baseball: replacement pitcher) · ko 구원투수 (baseball: replacement pitcher)