right-handed pitcher
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- noun
- /ˈraɪtˌhændɪd ˈpɪtʃər/
- US
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lanzador diestro
- During the game, the right-handed pitcher struck out five batters in a row.
Examples
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Adam Miller, a right-handed pitcher who recently returned from the Mexico Culiacan Mission, found that coming back seemed a bit daunting.
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Fortunately, today's lineup is stacked with lefties against a right-handed pitcher with a huge platoon split.
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In comes the other team's lights-out closer, a nasty right-handed pitcher.
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Not listed is Ohio State right-handed pitcher Josh Dezse, who some have placed in their top 40.
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That was a 12-6 curve, which even right-handed pitchers rarely throw.
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Let's use a right-handed batter against a right-handed pitcher as an example.
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By the mid-1960s, most baseball observers regarded the "Dominican Dandy" as the best right-handed pitcher in the game.
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But Harris is normally a right-handed pitcher, and the Expos' manager let him carry out the stunt for the recognition it brought (Gallagher, 1995).
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As the figure below shows, a curveball thrown by a right-handed pitcher rotates from the third base side of the infield to the first base side in its trip to home plate.
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Even the most casual baseball fan knows that right-handed batters tend to do better against left-handed pitchers, while left-handed batters do better against right-handed pitchers.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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A baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pitcher who throws with their right hand' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'right-handed' (favoring use of the right hand) with 'pitcher' (a baseball player who throws to batters). This is a straightforward descriptive noun phrase following common compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Right-handed pitcher is a baseball pitcher who 'throws with their right hand'. That's why the phrase means a pitcher who uses the right hand to throw.