starting pitcher

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   (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game

   Broaderpitcherstarter

   baseball

Questions about starting pitcher

What does starting pitcher mean?

starting pitcher means "(baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game".

Is starting pitcher a common word?

starting pitcher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.