outpitch
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outpitch (third-person singular simple present outpitches, present participle outpitching, simple past and past participle outpitched)
- (baseball) To pitch better than an opposing pitcher.
- 2007 February 7, Richard Goldstein, “Lew Burdette, Masterful Pitcher, Dies at 80”, in New York Times[1]:
- He beat the Yankees, 4-2, at Yankee Stadium in Game 2, outpitched Whitey Ford in a 1-0 victory in Game 5 in Milwaukee, and then, pitching on two days’ rest because Spahn had the flu, threw a 5-0 shutout at Yankee Stadium in Game 7.