"pitch around" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: pitches around [present, singular, third-person], pitching around [participle, present], pitched around [participle, past], pitched around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pitch around (third-person singular simple present pitches around, present participle pitching around, simple past and past participle pitched around)
  1. (transitive, baseball) To intentionally throw pitches which are slightly out of the strike zone, hoping that the batter will swing wildly at a pitch, but assuming that you will walk him Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Baseball

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pitch around meaning in English (1.7kB)

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