Forward Pitch: Angling of the thumbhole inward and/or the finger holes upward so that the tip of the bowler's thumb is pointing more towards the palm and/or the fingers are angled away from the palm. Promotes hanging onto the ball longer.

 

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Forward Pitch: Angling of the thumbhole inward and/or the finger holes upward so that the tip of the bowler's thumb is pointing more towards the palm and/or the fingers are angled away from the palm. Promo . . . View Full Definition

Pitcher: The fielder designated to pitch the ball to the batter.

Pitch-Out: A lateral tossed from a quarterback to a running back.

Pitchers Best Friend: A double play.

Pitch Mark: (also 'ball mark') the depression that a ball makes when it strikes the ground (usually, but not always, associated with the putting green)

Pitchfork: (also 'divot repair tool, ballmark repair tool') a small (usually) two-pronged fork-like tool used mainly for repairing the putting surface

Pitching Wedge: (also 'wedge, p, pw, w' and more) a lofted short iron (usually next in chronological order after the 9 iron and somewhere between 47° and 52°)

Pitching Rotation: The order in which the starting pitchers take turns starting games, usually with three or four days rest between starts.

Pitching Niblick: Archaic term for an 8 iron

Pitch Line: An imaginary line which passes through threads at such points that the length of the part of the line between adjacent threads is equal to the length of the line within a thread.