pitchout
See also: pitch out
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pitchout (plural pitchouts)
- (baseball) A pitch that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone in order to prevent a stolen base
- 1988 July 22, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The only thing that had kept the bases from being loaded was that Zimmer (or someone, but let's give him the credit because it was a tough weekend for him) caught the Dodgers stealing with a pitchout on a hit-and-run.
