A cut fastball, or "cutter," is similar to a slider, but the pitcher tends to use a four-seam grip.

In fact, the numbers suggest that pitchers tend to do the most damage to their arms after they have thrown about 120 pitches in a game.

In that situation, many young pitchers tend to disrupt their rhythm by not firing the ball as hard as they can.

He believes that pitchers of their ilk tend to adapt to change more quickly because they are always changing.

In addition, the lower pitchers of N. boschiana tend to have a more bulbous base and a wider peristome.

Here, too, the pitchers tend to challenge hitters with fastballs and thus at-bats are resolved more quickly.

A starting pitcher, say, Pedro Martínez of the Red Sox, tends to be less effective late in the game than he is early.

Starting pitchers on teams with a weak bullpen tend to have fewer wins because of this.

Even when they're in the clubhouse together, position players and pitchers tend to stick to their own kind.

This is done to give the kids more experience hitting the ball, as pitchers at that age would tend to throw few strikes.