Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

switch pitcher

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables: switch pitch-er
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.

Example Sentences

"As the result of a childhood injury, Larry Kimbrough became both a switch hitter and a switch pitcher, and he carried those abilities all the way to the only major leagues available to a black ballplayer in the early 1940s: the Negro League"

Etymology

By analogy with switch hitter.

Inflected Forms

switch pitchers (plural)

Questions

What does switch pitcher mean?: A pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
Where does switch pitcher come from?: By analogy with switch hitter.

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