How to Use reliever in a Sentence

reliever

noun

• Exercise is a good stress reliever.
• The Dodgers are up three in the bottom of the sixth and can use their best relievers to get the final nine outs.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
• In the 10th, Hyde again sent a reliever seeking his first career save to the mound.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• First up, control the pain with over-the-counter pain relievers.
  — Deanna Pai, Allure, 13 Apr. 2024
• Mitch Spence, the first of four relievers after starter Alex Wood couldn’t get out of the fifth, got the win and improved to 1-1.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• Miller, 26, found his way in the big leagues as a reliever this season.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
• Yet following the All-Star break, the Sox ranked 22nd in the majors in reliever velo.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• The right-handed pitcher, the Terps’ fourth reliever out of the bullpen, struck out the last two batters to keep the score tied.
  — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 5 June 2022
• Schreiber has been one of the Sox’ most reliable relievers over the past two years.
  — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The reliever worked inside and quickly got ahead in the count, 1-2.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 6 June 2022
• That left perhaps his third-best reliever, David Robertson, to pitch the 10th for the save.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Drysdale came into the game in the fifth inning as a reliever and got out of a jam.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The Dodgers have, in fact, used their relievers more than all but four teams this season.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 15 Aug. 2024
• For a 35-year-old reliever, that can be a career killer.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• But throughout the playoffs, Treinen had been the team’s best reliever.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• Read full article The starting pitchers have the fifth-worst ERA in the majors; the relievers have the fourth best.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• At the very least, the Giants are likely to pursue a reliever or two.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 2022
• The Cubs reliever induced a comebacker to the mound and a soft liner to short to strand the runners.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2022
• Vespi, a reliever in the Orioles’ bullpen for parts of last season, was an option as the second lefty out of the bullpen.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2023
• And what the Orioles choose to do with Hall will impact the other relievers vying for the final three seats in the bullpen.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2023
• The right-handed reliever signed a minor-league deal, his third with the Tigers in three seasons.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
• Painful blisters on one side of the body need calamine lotion or pain relievers.
  — Susan Bard, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
• But when Myers entered the game, the Rangers brought in right-handed reliever Ian Kennedy.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2023
• Brennan drove in two runs, while Williams and four relievers limited the Twins to two hits.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• In the 1970s, Bruce Sutter learned the pitch from a minor league coach and became one of baseball’s best relievers.
  — Keith Thursby, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Teams build bullpens of hard-throwing relievers who can get outs for three or four innings a game.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Four relievers put up zeros behind him to set up the Cubs’ 5-4 win in 10 innings.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• The reliever pitched the final five innings and didn’t allow a hit — or a Cardinal to reach base.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2023
• Sticking to the plan, though, would have meant taking the ball away from his best reliever in the series’ biggest moment.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• The Dodgers used eight different relievers over the course of the last two games, and only one of them, Daniel Hudson, on successive nights.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024