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In baseball, a switch-pitcher is an ambidextrous pitcher who is able to pitch with either the right or left hand from the pitcher's mound.

Pat Venditte pitching left-handed for the Oakland Athletics in 2015.

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Switch pitcher

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In baseball, a switch-pitcher is an ambidextrous pitcher who is able to pitch with either the right or left hand from the pitcher's mound. Four 19th-century...

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Switch hitter

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In baseball, a switch hitter is a player who bats both right-handed and left-handed, usually right-handed against left-handed pitchers and left-handed...

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Pat Venditte

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Venditte was a switch pitcher, capable of pitching proficiently with both arms. He was recognized as the only professional pitcher who was able to do...

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Jurrangelo Cijntje

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31, 2003) is a Dutch-born college baseball pitcher for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. He is a switch pitcher, capable of pitching proficiently with both...

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Ambidexterity

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most hits in Major League Baseball, was a switch hitter. Switch pitchers, comparatively rare in contrast to switch hitters, also exist. Tony Mullane won 284...

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Glossary of baseball terms

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of the vacated pitcher, and the new pitcher does not have to hit until the outgoing position player's turn comes again. The double switch is primarily used...

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Wausau Woodchucks

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Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants) Pat Venditte, 2008 (switch pitcher for teams including the Oakland Athletics) Ben Zobrist, 2003–04 (3-time...

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Baseball glove

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the hand. At the major league level, this glove has been used only by switch-pitcher Pat Venditte. Sliding mitts were introduced in the 2010s as an evolution...

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Designated hitter

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other words, a double switch involving the DH and a position player (with the exception of players started as starting pitcher and designated hitter)...

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2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season

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optioned Switch-Pitcher Pat Venditte to AAA Oklahoma City. On May 20, optioned RHP Yimi García to AAA Oklahoma City, recalled Switch-Pitcher Pat Venditte...

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Larry Kimbrough

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nicknamed "Schoolboy", was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s. A rare switch pitcher, he played for the Philadelphia Stars and the Homestead...

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Baseball positions

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associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (pitcher), 2 (catcher), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5 (third baseman)...

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Comparison of baseball and cricket

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has to be a pitcher, with the other players all being good batters and/or fielders. While allowed, it is quite rare for the pitcher to switch positions...

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Earned run

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not switched pitchers, neither run would be counted as an earned run because that pitcher should have already been out of that inning. A pitcher who is...

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Larry Corcoran

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no-hitter. He is also famous for being one of baseball's very few switch-pitchers, and is one of only two players in MLB history whose batting-throwing...

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Joey Jay

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August 15, 1935) is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1953 through 1966, Jay...

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Anthony Seigler

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play college baseball at the University of Florida. Although a switch pitcher and switch hitter with infield and outfield experience, Seigler said "I feel...

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Relief pitcher

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player was not allowed except for sickness or injury. An ineffective pitcher would switch positions with another player on the field. The first relief appearance...

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Pinch hitter

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pinch-hits for a pitcher without executing a double switch, such that the new pitcher then replaces the pinch hitter and assumes the previous pitcher's place in...

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Don Wakamatsu

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Retrieved November 29, 2023. "Cleveland Indians deal in bloodlines, switch-pitcher on last day of 2015 MLB draft". Cleveland.com. June 10, 2015. Retrieved...

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1994 Cleveland Indians corked bat incident

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room. The Indians, knowing the bat was indeed corked, dispatched relief pitcher Jason Grimsley to retrieve the bat. Grimsley took a bat belonging to Indians...

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Baseball rules

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then replaced by a relief pitcher when the team returns to the field on defense. A more complicated tactic is the double switch, in which a pitching change...

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Southpaw stance

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players' eyes and the resulting alignment of a left-handed pitcher's throwing arm causing the pitcher to have his left hand on the south side of his body, the...

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Paul Skenes

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David Skenes (born May 29, 2002) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college...

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Adam Ottavino

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majors later that season, and developed him into a relief pitcher. In 2013, Ottavino switched his uniform number to 0. Despite posting a 5–1 win–loss record...

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