How to Use pitch up in a Sentence

pitch up

verb
  • Groomer leaves the art of pitching up to Skenes and others.
    — Tribune News Service, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Schneeman timed the pitch up and sent it sailing into the right-field seats for a two-run homer.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Can their starting pitching stay healthy and pitch up to their potential?
    — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Lopez threw a pitch up and in on Soler, which the latter appeared to take exception to.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In the major leagues, House was hammered with high velocity and pitches up in the zone.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • Most have a traditional nomad tent pitched up in their private backyard, which, with a wood stove and comfy couch, makes for a cozy lounge area.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Five straight pitches were fouled off, the final one a slider that broke away off the plate after three pitches up and in and a changeup low and inside.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The next hitter, Marsh, was ready for a two-strike fastball, smoking a 100 mph pitch up the box for a single.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The nose of the accident plane appeared to pitch up and down several times, though its trajectory didn’t seem to change, the report said.
    — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 2 May 2025
  • After Saddier hit his pitch shot over the green, Noren nestled a pitch up close to the hole and was able to tap in for the winning birdie.
    — Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Grahovac takes the first pitch up the middle for a two RBI single, giving the Aggies the lead.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Wind tunnel experiments showed that sweeping the wings forward at larger angles enhances lift and helps the robot pitch up, a critical step in takeoff.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Los Angeles has been riding their strong starting pitching up until this point in the playoffs, limiting the exposure of their fragile bullpen.
    — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The two-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion certainly hasn't pitched up to his accolades this season, however.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Tinajani, a six-bedroom camp pitched up in a bottleneck of the Tinajani Canyon, was originally planned as a practical stopover to break up the eight-hour journey between two of the brand’s camps.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Lions right fielder Peyton Trummell blasted a one-out, solo home run to left field in the bottom of the sixth off Browne, the first hit allowed by Aledo pitching up to that point, to cut the lead to 3-1.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2026
  • Vance and his family—including his wife, Usha, 39, and children, Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and Mirabel, 3—pitched up this week at a manor house in the Cotswolds with a full entourage.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • My friend Heidi Kramer, now 81, pitched up on Tinos in September 1980 as a young and fearless Swiss divorcée, looking for somewhere to settle.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 May 2022
  • The dangling skydiver caused the aircraft to suddenly slow down and pitch up, ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell said in a news release.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Pep Guardiola wanted Kane to be Manchester City’s new centre forward before Erling Haaland pitched up at the Etihad Stadium.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The robots can throw a baseball at 70 mph (112 kph) and catch and hit balls from just 23 feet (7 meters) away, reacting fast enough to catch pitches up to 41 mph (66 kph) and hit balls thrown at up to 30 mph (48 kph).
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The Congolese bank Rawbank is also pitching up to $300 million tied to Buenassa’s refinery plan to construct a copper-cobalt refinery in the country’s southeastern Lualaba region, according to a note seen by Semafor.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Hicks, a catcher/DH, SS Otto Lopez, 2B Xavier Edwards and starters Meyer and Sandy Alcantara are having plus-seasons, and Eury Perez (finally) pitched up to potential.
    — Greg Cote may 24, Miami Herald, 24 May 2026

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