Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.

The cowboy's humorous name for a cow givin' milk was a `` milk pitcher ''.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

And women were not expected to know that the pitcher was trying not to let the batter hit the ball.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

He was eyeing the Anniston catcher warming up his pitcher before the inning began.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Eckstein was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.

* CG — Complete game: number of games where player was the only pitcher for his team

* 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

* L — Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )

A pitcher is only charged with the number of runners that reached base while he was pitching, and this does not include baserunners who reach base as the result of a fielder's choice play that removes an existing runner ; such a runner is charged to the pitcher whose baserunner has been removed by the fielder's choice play.

When that moment came, after pitcher Mike Torrez caught a pop-up for the game's final out, Jackson started running at top speed off the field, actually body checking past some of these fans filling the playing field in the manner of a football linebacker.

Martin resigned the next day ( some sources have said he was actually fired ), and was replaced by Bob Lemon, a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cleveland Indians who had been recently fired as manager of the White Sox.

In high school, young Gyro was a baseball pitcher with his " madball " pitch — actually only a straight-ball pitch.

The fingertip grip is actually more commonly used today by pitchers who throw the knuckleball, like retired Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who had a knuckleball with a lot of movement.

A pitch thrown completely without spin is actually less desirable, however, than one with only a very slight spin ( so that the ball completes perhaps between one-quarter and one-half a rotation on its way from the pitcher to the batter ).

Before Fingers ' time, a former starter's renewed success in the bullpen would have led back to a spot in the starting rotation ; but since the successes of not only Fingers but also contemporaries such as Sparky Lyle and Goose Gossage, it has been widely accepted that an excellent pitcher might actually provide a greater benefit to his team as a closer than as a third or fourth starter.

In the following instances, a team forfeited their right to a DH, but due to pinch-hitters or other factors, a pitcher did not actually end up making a plate appearance:

The concept is essentially the same as it was for hitters: using the player's playing time ( in a pitcher's case, his innings pitched ), determine how many runs a theoretical " replacement " would have given up in that playing time ( at the most basic level, the replacement level is equal to 1 plus the league's average runs per game ), and subtract from that number the amount actually allowed by the pitcher to arrive at VORP.

Factoring in the element of depth perception when the hitter watches the pitcher from sixty feet six inches away from the pitcher's mound, and the hitter perceives the pitcher's size and positioning on the mound to be less elevated than it actually is.

Said to have been able to speak with a voice that resembled a squeak, he was actually one of the most intelligent players of his time, and is sometimes credited with developing the hand signals used by umpires to this day, though this view is widely disputed ; Cy Rigler is believed to have created signals for balls and strikes while working in the minor leagues ( although, in the November 6, 1886 issue of The Sporting News, the deaf pitcher Ed Dundon is credited as using hand signals while umpiring a game in Mobile, Alabama on October 20 of that year ), and Bill Klem is credited with introducing those signals to the major leagues.

But while the reduced budget took its toll, Bakshi tried to delve further into Peter Parker's everyday life at college as a soft-spoken student, such as where he tries out for the football team, in " Criminals in the Clouds ," only to fail miserably, and actually becomes a star pitcher for the baseball team in " Diamond Dust.

In the first series of strips in which Patty appeared in 1966, she actually joins " Chuck's " team as its new pitcher, relegating Charlie Brown to the outfield.

New additions to the Reds that season were figures who would become Reds legends: manager George Lee " Sparky " Anderson and shortstop Dave Concepción, who had actually been signed by the Reds as an amateur free agent in 1967 as a pitcher.

This instant thus occurs before the pitcher actually releases the ball.

In practice, it is quite uncommon for families to go beyond " III " in naming children, although there are notable exceptions: Tom Cruise, for instance, is actually Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, and the oldest sons of U. S. Senator Jay Rockefeller ( full name John Davison Rockefeller IV ), former Major League Baseball pitcher Orel Hershiser and singer Usher ( full name Usher Raymond IV ) have " V " as their suffix.

Benton is known for being the only pitcher to face both Babe Ruth ( in ) and Mickey Mantle ( in ) ( Bobo Newsom was also active-but never actually faced Mantle ).

However, a notable alternative exists to this, in which the pitcher or weakest hitter actually bats in the 8th slot, and another player with decent OBP and speed bats in the 9th slot, thus creating a kind of second leadoff hitter, at the bottom of the lineup, that loops to the top of the order afterwards.

* The second baseman mimes throwing the ball to the pitcher, or goes to the mound and appears to give the ball to the pitcher, but actually hides the ball on his person.

Also in 2008, another of Allen's ex-White Sox teammates, pitcher Stan Bahnsen, said, " I actually thought that Dick was better than his stats.

Although the delivery distance, from release of the ball by the pitcher / bowler to its arrival at the batter / batsman, appears to be similar in both sports, the ball actually travels further in cricket as it bounces off the ground first.

Although veteran pitcher Steve Carlton won his 300th major league game during the regular season, he actually had a mediocre year at 15 – 16 — his first losing season since 1973 when his record was 13 – 20.

He batted. 203 in his only season as a catcher with the Boise Hawks and was converted to a pitcher when coaches noticed that his return throws to the mound were actually faster than the pitches he caught.

Charging the mound is usually more about responding to an indignity than actually an attempt by the batter to injure the pitcher.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

* October 3 – " Shot Heard ' Round the World ": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

* Ralph Terry, retired New York Yankees pitcher

In the 1960 World Series, Mazeroski won the title for Pittsburgh in Game 7 with a game-winning home run off New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry in the bottom of the ninth inning.

In game two of that World Series, Chacón hit a key bloop single against New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry, and scored the winning run in the Reds ' only victory in the series.

Ralph Willard Terry ( born on January 9, 1936 ) is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees ( 1956 – 57, 1959 – 64 ), Kansas City Athletics ( 1957 – 59, 1966 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1965 ) and New York Mets ( 1966 – 67 ).

Thomson became a celebrity for his dramatic walk-off home run off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca to win the National League pennant.

One of the participants in the very first tournament was Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, who won 17 games on the show.

* Ralph Botting, former Major League Baseball pitcher.

A notable aspect of WABC's Mets coverage was Howard Cosell and former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca handling the pre-and post-game shows.

* After a Budweiser TV commercial of the 1980s incorporated the original radio broadcast of the 1960 World Series Game 7, with announcer Chuck Thompson incorrectly naming Ditmar instead of Ralph Terry as the pitcher off whom Bill Mazeroski hit his legendary home run, Ditmar sued Anheuser-Busch for $ 500, 000, contending his reputation was tarnished.

Ralph Michael " Mike " Caldwell ( born January 22, 1949 ) is an American and former collegiate and professional baseball left-handed pitcher.

In the ninth inning of the decisive third game at the Polo Grounds, Dodger starting pitcher Don Newcombe had a 4 – 2 lead and two men on base when Dressen decided to go to the bullpen, where Carl Erskine and Ralph Branca were warming up.

Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca ( born January 6, 1926 ) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball.

In baseball, the " Shot Heard ' round the World " is the term given to the walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant at 3: 58 p. m. EST on October 3, 1951.

During a 2007 New York Mets broadcast, Blackwell was referred to as the best right-handed pitcher ever by Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner.

While Mueller was being carried off the field to be replaced by a pinch runner, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen called on relief pitcher Ralph Branca, whose second pitch was hit by Thomson into the Polo Grounds ' lower left field stands for a game-winning, three-run homer.