As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

* GF — Games finished: number of games pitched where player was the final pitcher for his team as a relief pitcher

* GS — Starts: number of games pitched where player was the first pitcher for his team

Baltimore's own Babe Ruth pitched for the Orioles before being sold to the AL Boston Red Sox in 1914.

Nied pitched four seasons for the Rockies.

During his 22-year baseball career ( 1890 – 1911 ), he pitched for five different teams.

In addition to wins, Young still holds the major league records for most career innings pitched ( 7, 355 ), most career games started ( 815 ), and most complete games ( 749 ).

Young set major league records for the most consecutive scoreless innings pitched and the most consecutive innings without allowing a hit ; the latter record still stands at 25. 1 innings, or 76 hitless batters.

For nineteen consecutive years, from 1891 through 1909, Cy Young was in his leagues ' top ten for innings pitched ; in fourteen of the seasons, he was in the top five.

The euphonium ( like the baritone ; see below for differences ) is pitched in concert B, meaning that when no valves are in use the instrument will produce partials of the B harmonic series.

Burnett pitched the Marlins ' third no-hitter on May 12 against the Padres,, despite walking nine batters and throwing only 1 / 2 of his pitches for strikes.

In pitched battles that were too complex for his relatively inexperienced men, Washington was defeated.

In the early 1990s the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning pitched an initiative for Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago to enter into some form of political union or political association.

Social conditions deteriorated for ordinary Kenyans, who faced a growing wave of routine crime in urban areas ; pitched battles between ethnic groups fighting for land ; and a feud between the police and the Mungiki sect, which left over 120 people dead in May – November 2007 alone.

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.

Additionally, in the book The Mason Williams FCC Rapport, author Mason Williams states that he pitched an idea to CBS for a television program that featured " video-radio ," where disc jockeys would play avant-garde art pieces set to music on the air.

Product developer Len Brown, inspired by Wally Wood's cover for EC Comics Weird Science # 16, pitched the idea to Woody Gelman.

The Twins won by scoring a run in the bottom of the 10th inning, and Morris had pitched a shutout for all ten innings against the Braves.

Rollie Fingers was lost for the whole season with a torn muscle in his throwing arm, beloved slugger Gorman Thomas struggled badly offensively and was traded to the Cleveland Indians, and their ace, Pete Vuckovich, was revealed to have had a torn rotator cuff that had been plaguing him since 1981 and only pitched in 5 games in 1983.

From there, Miyazaki worked as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending.

When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers.

In 1997, Martínez posted a 17 – 8 record for the Expos, and led the league in half a dozen pitching categories, including a 1. 90 ERA, 305 strikeouts and 13 complete games pitched, and became the only Expo ever to win the National League Cy Young Award.

In the 1986 American League Championship Series, Clemens pitched poorly in the opening game, watched the Boston bullpen blow his 3 – 0 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 4, and then pitched a strong Game 7 to wrap up the series for Boston.

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.

Earned runs stem from the theory that the pitcher has sole responsibility to earn strikes against opposing batter ( s ) until at least three batters are retired in each inning of play, and nine innings ( a complete game ) are pitched.

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.

Chapman died the next day, becoming the only player to sustain a fatal injury from a pitched ball.

After an intentional walk to Helton, the Padres pitched to utility infielder Jamey Carroll, who then hit a sacrifice fly, allowing Holliday to score from third base.

Since 1881, pitchers had pitched within a " box " whose front line was from home base, and since 1887 they had been compelled to toe the back line of the box when delivering the ball.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

The standard concert flute is pitched in the key of C and has a range of three octaves starting from middle C ( or one half-step lower, when a B foot is attached to the instrument ).

The playing positions of concert kantele and small kantele are reversed: to the player of a small kantele the widest low pitched strings are farthest away from his body, whilst to a concert kantele this side of the instrument is nearest, and the short high pitched strings farthest away.

The courses are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the chanterelle is the first course, the next pair of strings is the second course, etc.

Debra once left a Red Sox game, when Clemens pitched for another team, in tears from the heckling she received.

The series pitched in B and E, designed for military bands, has proved extremely popular and most saxophones encountered today are from this series.

Instruments from the so-called " orchestral " series pitched in C and F never gained a foothold, and the B and E instruments have now replaced the C and F instruments in classical music.

Riggins took a pitch from Theismann, ran up to the line of scrimmage, and then pitched the ball back to Theismann who then attempted to pass it.

The resulting overlap forms the high pitched whistle ( about 10 Kilohertz ) that can often be heard behind an AM station at night when other carriers from adjacent channels are traveling long distances due to atmospheric bounce.

In addition to the size of the group, Steve Gillon has suggested that one thing that sets the baby boomers apart from other generational groups is the fact that " almost from the time they were conceived, Boomers were dissected, analyzed, and pitched to by modern marketers, who reinforced a sense of generational distinctiveness.

Basszink ) pitched a 4th or 5th below the tenor, is described by Mersenne, but it was also known in Germany, where it is listed in many inventories from the last decades of the 16th century.

Although little direct confirmation of the theory exists, a Stuttgart inventory from 1589 mentions two cornetts pitched ‘ two tones lower than the treble cornett ’ ( see Spielmann ), and the civic ensemble of Bologna had positions for both cornetto di soprano and cornetto di contralto ( see Gambassi ).

He admitted to being a fan of Marcy Playground and Leary's outrage was eased once he learned that Capitol Records, former home of the Butthole Surfers and then-current home of Marcy Playground, had pitched the artwork to Wozniak as original work from its own art department and that Marcy Playground had no knowledge of the work's origins.

The pitched Battle of Piacenza ( 16 June ) was hard fought and Maillebois had nearly achieved a victory when orders from the Infante compelled him to retire.

The alto flute is a very similar instrument, but longer, and hence pitched lower, with a range starting from the G below middle C. The fingering that would produce a C on a standard flute produces the G a fourth lower on the alto flute.