As expected, the Bastarnae attacked the vanguard in force, only to find themselves entangled in the full-scale pitched battle with the Romans that they had tried to avoid.

There 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed after a pitched battle took place between the two groups.

Fabius was well aware of the military superiority of the Carthaginians, and so Fabius refused to meet Hannibal in a pitched battle.

On February 28, a pitched battle took place in La Ceiba between government troops and rebels.

Arriving in Etruria in the spring of 217 BC, Hannibal decided to lure the main Roman army under Flaminius, into a pitched battle, by devastating the region Flaminius had been sent to protect.

After Cannae, the Romans were very hesitant to confront Hannibal in pitched battle, preferring instead to weaken him by attrition, relying on their advantages of interior lines, supply, and manpower.

Raymond and Guy finally agreed to attack Saladin at Tiberias, but could not agree on a plan ; Raymond thought a pitched battle should be avoided, but Guy probably remembered the criticism he faced for avoiding battle in 1183, and it was decided to march out against Saladin directly.

Since armies could not live off the land indefinitely, Napoleon Bonaparte always sought a quick end to any conflict by pitched battle.

Having joined Ibrahim in 1534, Suleiman made a push towards Persia, only to find the Shah sacrificing territory instead of facing a pitched battle, resorting to harassment of the Ottoman army as it proceeded along the harsh interior.

The first Roman expedition to Iberia was unable to bring the Carthaginian troops in the hinterland of Massalia to a pitched battle, so it continued on its way to northern Iberia under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, a move which proved decisive for the outcome of the war.

This convinced the Carthaginian commander Hanno, the nephew of Hannibal, to accept pitched battle before his troops had been united with the army under Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, despite being outnumbered 2 to 1.

The two armies met at Wallingford but neither side's barons were keen to fight another pitched battle.

In July, while planning a return to Edinburgh for supplies, Edward received intelligence that the Scots were encamped nearby at Falkirk, and he moved quickly to engage them in the pitched battle he had long hoped for.

* As the Persian satraps have gathered for a war council at Zeleia, Memnon argues that it is preferable for the Persians to avoid a pitched battle and adopt a scorched earth tactic.

* June 20 – Battle of Châlons: Attila avoids a pitched battle near Orléans and withdraws to the Catalaunian Plains ( Champagne-Ardenne ).

* Saint Columba quarrels with Saint Finnian over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year.

* April 16 – The Battle of Culloden, the final pitched battle fought on British soil, brings an end to the Jacobite Rising.

A large Macedonian army under general Antipater marched to its relief and defeated the Spartan-led force in a pitched battle.

Unable to flee back to his stronghold in Sicily due an Imperial naval blockade, al-Qasim faced the Imperial army in a pitched battle south of Crotone at Cape Colonna on July 14, 982.

For example, Nancy Wake's group of 7, 000 maquisards was involved in a pitched battle with 22, 000 Germans on June 20, 1944.

Rozhestvensky had only two alternatives, " a charge direct, in line abreast ", or to commence " a formal pitched battle.

There were also squadrons of Arab cavalry, but they were more suited to skirmishes than to pitched battle.

After setting Arabella ashore, they approach the harbor disguised under French colors and save the colony in a pitched battle.

A pitched battle is fought inside Rome, resulting in the death of Gracchus and many of his followers.

Many of the Nimitz crew members were used as extras, a few with speaking parts ; a total of 48 of the Nimitz crew appear as " actors " in the final credits. The difficulties in filming a modern jet fighter were soon apparent when the first setup to record a F-14 takeoff at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, resulted in both camera and operator being pitched down a runway.

innings, Brad Lidge pitched 2 innings, Octavio Dotel pitched 1 inning in which he recorded 4 strikeouts and Billy Wagner pitched a perfect 9th to close out a six-pitcher no-hitter that resulted in 13 strikeouts in an 8-0 victory over the New York Yankees.

The incident resulted in the Trident being fitted with an automatic stall warning system known as a " stick shaker ", and a stall recovery system known as a " stick pusher " which automatically pitched the aircraft down in order to build up speed if the crew failed to respond to the warning.

The aeroplane pitched up uncontrollably and stalled which resulted in the aircraft impacting the conservatory of a house located under the flight path.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

The Paolists combining with the royalists defeated the French in two pitched battles and Napoleon and his family went on the run, hiding by day, while the Paolists burned their estate.

* SHO — Shutout: number of complete games pitched with no runs allowed

For instance, Jim Devlin in 1876 pitched 66 complete games ( 662 innings pitched ) with a 1. 56 ERA but managed to record only five shutouts.

A starting pitcher, then, may be credited with a game played even as he is not credited with a game started, an inning pitched, or a complete game.

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

Spain's alliance with the French pitched them into direct conflict with the British, and in 1762 a British expedition of five warships and 4, 000 troops set out from Portsmouth to capture Cuba.

Indians Pitcher CC Sabathia won the second Cy Young Award in team history with a 19 – 7 record, a 3. 21 ERA and an MLB-leading 241 innings pitched.

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

In any case, warfare in the Middle Ages tended to be dominated by raids and sieges rather than pitched battles, and mounted men-at-arms rarely had any choice other than dismounting when faced with the prospect of assaulting a fortified position.

When the season ended, he posted a 1. 26 ERA, which gave him not only the lowest in his career, but also gave him a Major League record of being the oldest pitcher with 150 + innings pitched to post a season ERA under 1. 50.

; Atarigane: A high pitched hand-held gong played with a small mallet and used to establish a common tempo.

She had signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer, earning only one national-chart single, " Happy, Happy Birthday Baby ", which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.

They presented the idea to Bright, with whom they had previously worked, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the series to NBC.

Land operations were confined to small scale raids and skirmishes, with few pitched battles.

After two months the French army moved in to retake Paris, with pitched battles fought in working-class neighborhoods.

" Horn harmonicas " are available in several pitch ranges, with the lowest pitched starting two octaves below middle C and the highest beginning on middle C itself ; they usually cover a two or three octave range.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

The Finnish kantele generally has a diatonic tuning though small kantele with between 5 and 15 strings are often tuned to a gapped mode missing a seventh and with the lowest pitched strings tuned to a fourth below the tonic as a drone.

The receiver pitched the ball backward, with a sequence of additional backward passes as players were in danger of being tackled.