Sentence examples for second top pitcher from inspiring English sources
Greinke is the second top pitcher the Brewers have acquired this month, joining the right-hander Shaun Marcum, who started last opening day for the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Indians, who are third in the Central, traded Bartolo Colón, their top pitcher, to Montreal last week for Lee Stevens and prospects.
The homer was Piazza's fourth in 12 career at-bats against Hoffman, the latest top pitcher to lose a duel with him.
Mike Mussina, in his first season with the Yankees, was again chosen as the top pitcher in the A.L. Mussina won four straight years (1996-99) with Baltimore.
The toughest blow came in the second week of practice when Ben Leffell, a sophomore and the team's top pitcher and hitter, came down with mononucleosis.
2.7 – Mark Teixeira, 1B: Five first basemen were already off the board in Round 1, and the decision here was between Teixeira and our top pitcher on the board, Clayton Kershaw, who was taken with the very next selection.
Ask baseball's top pitcher, Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins.
Cuba's suffocating dominance began to erode in the 1990s as some of its top pitchers — first René Arocha, then Liván Hernández and Orlando Hernández — defected and signed with major league teams.
With a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning and one of Stanford's top pitchers still going strong, everything fell apart for the Cardinal.
Not only was it against Santana, one of baseball's top pitchers, but it was the first grand slam by an American League pitcher since Cleveland's Steve Dunning hit one in 1971.
