How to Use relief pitcher in a Sentence

relief pitcher

noun
  • The top-end relief pitchers have all but been scooped.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Clevenger got to show off his arm strength a bit as a relief pitcher.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a laudable trait for, say, a relief pitcher who coughs up a home run.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Few athletes can win or lose trust from their fans at a faster clip than relief pitchers.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But the relief pitcher is keeping that between him and his wife.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the life of a major league relief pitcher, highs and lows are part of the landscape.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • None of the Padres’ four high-leverage relief pitchers pitched the past two days.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The club would be required to use pinch-hitters the rest of the game or have a relief pitcher bat.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The team also intends to sign a relief pitcher.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
  • So why use the final roster spot on a relief pitcher such as Gage?
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The relief pitcher would not stand for any trash talking of his beloved Yankees.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The pair had been seen speaking together as the relief pitcher trudged off the field.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The Padres would net one hit against the three relief pitchers that worked an inning apiece to close out the game.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • Kendall Long, wife of relief pitcher Sam Long, is back in town, too.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Last year Atlanta relief pitchers worked the third-fewest innings of any team.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • But relief pitchers are so dominating these days, teams don’t see the need to ask them to do that.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Catchers also use this tactic to stall for time, in case a relief pitcher isn’t quite ready in the bullpen.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Now a free agent, the 31-year-old might not be pigeonholed as a relief pitcher.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But safeties and cornerbacks are like relief pitchers in baseball.
    — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But the relief pitchers — those who come in after the starters to finish the game — have been a disaster.
    — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • When the Cubs won, nobody was talking about the defense or the relief pitchers.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • No Reds relief pitcher has moved up the bullpen depth chart more rapidly than Kuhnel.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 19 June 2022
  • But defensive backs are like relief pitchers in baseball.
    — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Rangers right-handed relief pitcher Michel Otanez.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • To end the game, relief pitcher Garhett Love was put in for the save and delivered.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2026
  • The 23-year-old from Panama could return this month as a relief pitcher.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The Padres are one of 12 teams who have hit relief pitchers better than starters this season.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • He was cast as a relief pitcher with the New York Mets and longed to be in a starting role.
    — Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
  • Then their new relief pitcher allowed a mammoth game-tying home run on a blazing fastball.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • With the Reds trailing by four runs, relief pitcher Cionel Pérez made a pick-off throw to first.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 18 May 2021

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