pitching coach
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈpɪtʃɪŋ koʊtʃ/
- Jargon
:
entrenador de lanzadores
- The pitching coach will be in control of the pitching machine.
- pitching coach, said
- league pitching coaches
Examples
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Justin Lord will be the new pitching coach for Delmarva.
Blog text (14) -
The past two seasons, Lord was the pitching coach with the Southern Illinois Miners of the Frontier League.
Blog text (14) -
My pitching coach called me the other day.
Academic text (2002) -
The first time I ever had a pitching coach was in professional baseball.
Blog text (27) -
Farrell was the Red Sox pitching coach for four years before he left for Toronto after 2010.
Blog text (33) -
The Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds will have a new pitching coach in 2013.
Blog text (14) -
At one time, pitching coaches instructed pitchers to powerfully drive against the pitching rubber.
Academic text (2009) -
The right-hander will have an extra bullpen session between starts to make some adjustments with pitching coach Ray Searage in hopes of getting back on track.
Blog text (15) -
"I think he enjoyed the experience," Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild told Justin Terranova of the NY Post about Kuroda's time in the Bronx.
Blog text (6) -
After joining the team, he worked closely with a pitching coach to improve his fastball.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pitching' (presenting/persuading) + 'coach' (someone who trains) yields a coach who trains people to give pitches. This verb+‑ing + coach pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic composition and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the business sense of 'pitch' (noting only that a different sense of 'pitch' exists in sports, which does not make the construction idiomatic).
Etymology
The noun pitching coach comes from baseball: a coach who trains the team's pitchers how to 'pitch' (throw) the ball and improve their throwing, so the name means 'the coach who teaches pitching'.