Definition of Right-handed pitcher

1. Noun. (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand.

Exact synonyms: Right-hander
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Hurler, Pitcher, Twirler

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right-handed Pitcher

right-down
right-drag
right-eyed
right-footed
right-footer
right-hand
right-hand(a)
right-hand drive
right-hand man
right-hand men
right-hand path
right-hand rule
right-hand woman
right-hand women
right-handed
right-handed pitcher (current term)
right-handedly
right-handedness
right-hander
right-handers
right-hearted
right-ho
right-minded
right-of-centre
right-of-way
right-oh
right-side-out(p)
right-side-up(p)
right-thinking
right-to-die

Literary usage of Right-handed pitcher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"As soon as a little billow of air is created by a right-handed pitcher. It is because the left- in front of it, it is forced out of its normal path ..."

2. Outing (1892)
"If a right-handed pitcher faced the south and pitched a ball from north to south the "whirl" of the ball would be from east to west, just as he would spin a ..."

3. How to Play Baseball: A Manual for Boys by John Joseph McGraw (1914)
"If the ball is delivered so that all the impetus possible is given to it when thrown by a right- handed pitcher, it will be noticed that the ball will jump ..."

4. Baseball: Individual Play and Team Play in Detail by William Jones Clarke, Fredrick Thomas Dawson (1915)
"... the pitcher should practise it constantly until he is master of it: a right-handed pitcher should turn to the left—a left-handed pitcher to the right. ..."

5. Walter Camp's Book of College Sports by Walter Chauncey Camp (1900)
"This is a delivery by a right-handed pitcher which causes the ball to curve away from a right- handed batsman. Slowly after this came the "incurve," or ..."

6. Baseball Notes for Coaches and Players by Elmer Berry (1916)
"Batter swings late. Slow when Over-anxious batter—can't wait. Batter stands in back of box. Left-handed batter with right-handed pitcher. Slow ball outside. ..."

7. Scientific Baseball by John Joseph McGraw (1913)
"A simple definition for the fall away is that it is a ball'that curves out from a left-handed batter when it is pitched by a right-handed pitcher. ..."

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