How to Use pitch in a Sentence

pitch

1 of 2 noun

• In the 12th, Gabriel Moreno bounced the first pitch to third for an easy out.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• The batter needs to be ready with eight seconds left on the pitch clock.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
• The next pitch Garcia saw in the eighth drilled him in his right elbow pad.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Williams, like Ryan, came out to pitch after the delay.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• White gave them two full ones, and threw 24 of his 36 pitches for strikes.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• Items to bid on include a trip to Paris and a Detroit Tiger first pitch.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2023
• Reyes, in his first at-bat of the evening, laced a liner to left-center on the first pitch, and Doyle was off to the races.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• Mike Torrez can come back to throw out a first pitch to Bucky Dent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• On the first play of the second half, a Mahomes pitch was high and Pacheco couldn’t handle it.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• The thing is, though, that Grok’s entire pitch is humor.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
• And this was before catcher Austin Hedges came in to pitch.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• But, in the bottom of the eighth, Smith struggled to locate his pitches.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• But his 93rd pitch of the night was a 98-mph fastball blown by Nolan Gorman to end the inning.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2024
• And lastly, what’s the elevator pitch for Arthur the King?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
• The Royals brought Cuas out of the bullpen, and on the first pitch, Javier Báez drilled a slider into center field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023
• Catcher Jake Rogers ranks in the 88th percentile for pitch framing.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
• By the end of last year, mention of live video and audio had been purged from Reddit’s IPO pitch.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
• The pitch comes: Ohtani taps his toes, coils his hips, readies his hands, and strokes a line drive into right field.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• This is part of Apple’s pitch defending the price of this device.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Save for the soccer pitch and the outdoor area, all will be open from tomorrow.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
• An investor could turn down your pitch, or sales could suddenly take a turn for the worse.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• Sheets got a head start, moving on the 3-2 pitch that Benintendi would hit down the right-field line.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• The cheering in the background reaching a pitch that can surely only be heard by dogs!
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
• On the mound, Marlins lefty A.J. Puk continues to struggle with his pitch count in the first inning.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
• After the game resumed, Ozzie Albies singled on the second pitch to bring Acuña across the plate for a 6-5 Braves win.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Probably 90 percent of the descent is pitch black, if not more.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• That’s because the very same skills that are valued on the pitch are also highly desirable in the c-suite.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Delta Air Lines has its Comfort+ section with extra legroom, a 34-inch seat pitch to be exact.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• Macron made the pitch to the council in recognition of the 65th anniversary of the French Constitution.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2023
• She was handed a baseball, threw 10-15 warmup pitches and then was called on to relieve Carson Hamro two batters into the ninth.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024

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pitch

2 of 2 verb

• The southpaw pitched three innings against the Mariners.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• From those that fly out and pitch to the Sharks, only 80 to 90 of them get aired.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• The goal next time will be to pitch at least six innings.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Therefore, Boyd had to pitch deep into the first game of the series.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2023
• He was scheduled to pitch Thursday, but the lineup is now up in the air.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• But with Freeman on deck, the Sox had little choice but to pitch to him.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Syndicate is pitching the new thriller Turn Up the Sun!
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2023
• The two-way stud will not pitch at all in 2024 due to his second Tommy John surgery.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Left fielder Austin Hays will start in the outfield, and Cano and Bautista will likely pitch out of the bullpen.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
• Estévez was pitching for the seventh time in 12 games and for the third time in the four-game series in Texas.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• In 2021, Cho pitched his longtime dream to the building’s owners.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2023
• For more than a year, Maisel pitched banks with his Marvel Studios scheme, and failed again and again.
  — Joanna Robinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
• The same thing happened with pitching it around [to studios].
  — Hannah Jackson, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2023
• One was crouched down, like a catcher; the other was pitching.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Sep. 2023
• The Padres have traded their bright, young outfield rental to the Yankees for lots of pitching.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Last year, the LA teams pitched redevelopment plans for the south blimp hangar in Tustin (the one that didn’t burn).
  — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
• Around that time, Markle was pitched as a guest on Cohen's late-night Bravo show.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
• The children often spent days below deck in the dark, waiting out storms while the boat pitched and heaved.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• One of my closest friends, Matt Miller, pitched that sandwich.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Dodgers had targeted Sunday’s game for the return of Urías, who last pitched on May 18.
  — Aaron Bracy, ajc, 11 June 2023
• White also pitched a clean seventh — striking out Soto in the process — as did Holton in the eighth.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• Rogers has pitched exactly five innings in each of his first three starts of the season.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2024
• People filled classrooms and walkways and pitched makeshift tents in a courtyard in the center of the building.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
• Chen, a junior, pitched a no-hitter in a 6-0 win over Monta Vista.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• In total, entering Game 7, he's pitched to a 2.13 ERA in his three starts.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Amy had pitched from the start that the journey would end with Midge landing on Johnny Carson’s couch.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• Hernández pitched his entire 15-year career with the Mariners.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
• And now Kershaw, instead of taking the mound for the Dodgers on Thursday, may never pitch again.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• But the night belonged to the defense, which has pitched three shutouts and limited two other teams to six points.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• For the first time, Snell pitched off the visitor’s bullpen mound for his routine between-starts throwing session.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024

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