The word 'pitcher' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a container with a spout and handle, used for serving drinks, or to refer to a baseball player who throws a ball to the hitter. Example sentence: The pitcher filled the glasses with lemonade.
2 To take on a picnic, add ice cubes and slices of grapefruit and lemons to the pitcher before leaving.
Makes around 1 litre Juice of 2 pink grapefruits Juice of 1 lemon ½ litre cold water, sparkling or still 3-4 tbsp honey A small handful of fresh mint leaves Crushed ice or ice cubes Slices of lemon and grapefruit 1 Combine the fruit juices in a pitcher and, if serving straight away, add the mint leaves, crushing them.
A man about town, he owns a nightclub in Charlotte called Butter, is a buddy of Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain and exchanges text messages with Michael Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.
"Well, one woman came in and ordered a pitcher of beer before the job interview.
Dr Jobe estimated the chances of success at one in 20, and warned the pitcher that he would miss the rest of the season in recovery.Mr John knew that his odds of pitching again if he passed up the proposal were roughly zero, and agreed to the experimental procedure.
As Nippon Professional Baseball reels from the loss of its own stars, most notably the Japanese-Iranian pitcher Yu Darvish, its teams have compensated by attracting popular foreigners: Wladimir Balentien of Curaçao, who failed to make an impact in MLB, just broke the league's single-season home-run record.
Meanwhile, Roger Clemens won the award granted to the league's best pitcher on seven different occasions, the last time at the ripe old age of 42.Many fans began to suspect such achievements were fuelled by performance-enhancing drugs, and in 2003 the Justice Department began investigating BALCO, a company accused of distributing steroids to athletes.
There is strong evidence that they used PEDs in their late 30s: government agents investigating illegal steroid dealers found detailed records of Mr Bonds' alleged consumption, and Mr Clemens's former trainer says he personally injected the star pitcher with PEDs.
As a left-handed pitcher for the Dodgers, he shot to stardom after a mediocre start, dominating baseball for five seasons in 1962-66.
One of the more high-profile beneficiaries of the easier rules is José Contreras, a pitcher in America's Major League Baseball.
The last Kumbh Mela (pitcher fair), 12 years ago in Allahabad, which attracts the biggest crowds of the four, set a record for a human congregation.
