relief pitcher

English

Noun

relief pitcher (plural relief pitchers)

1. (baseball) A pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, ejection from the game or fatigue.

   The team's relief pitchers have not allowed a run in the past six games.

Synonyms

• reliever

Translations

baseball: replacement pitcher

• Catalan: llançador de relleu (ca) m
• Finnish: vaihtosyöttäjä
• Japanese: 救援投手 (kyūentōshu)
• Korean: 구원투수(救援投手) (ko) (guwontusu)

See also

• closer
• set-up pitcher
• middle relief pitcher
• long reliever
• mop-up man