"relief pitcher" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: relief pitchers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} relief pitcher (plural relief pitchers)
  1. (baseball) 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. Categories (topical): Baseball, People Synonyms: reliever Related terms: closer, set-up pitcher, middle relief pitcher, long reliever, mop-up man Translations (baseball: replacement pitcher): llançador de relleu [masculine] (Catalan), vaihtosyöttäjä (Finnish), 救援投手 (kyūentōshu) (Japanese), 구원투수 (guwontusu) (alt: 救援投手) (Korean)

Inflected forms

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