| 词汇 | brushback-pitch |
| 释义 | brushback pitch noun[ C ] uk /ˈbrʌʃ.bæk ˌpɪtʃ/ us /ˈbrʌʃ.bæk ˌpɪtʃ/(alsobrushback) in baseball, a ball intentionally thrown fast and too close to the batter's body, forcing the batter to step back. Brushback pitches are against the rules: （棒球）投近身球 He got punished for throwing a brushback pitch in training.他因为在训练中投掷了一个近身球而被罚。 US an action or statement that can be seen as an attempt to threaten or frighten someone: 威胁性（或恐吓性）行为（或言语） At a news conference, he threw a brushback pitch at his former coach.在一次新闻发布会上，他出言威胁自己的前任教练。 As a player, he was never a goody-two-shoes. He threw brushback pitches. White House officials insist that their foreign policy goal is not to depose the government, but rather to throw a series of brushback pitches. He might face a brushback pitch or two when he testifies next week before a congressional committee. Making the government face the prospect of defending the Whitaker appointment constitutes an important brushback pitch. The main differences in the game from when I played are the money being made and lack of brushbacks. Baseball & rounders 1-2-3 inning ahead alley around the hornidiom at bat bomb curve hit the ball out of the parkidiom hitting coach home plate home stand horsehide hot corner sac spitter split-fingered fastball splitter squeeze play starting pitcher swing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Threats & warnings Examples of brushback pitchbrushback pitch Play-by-play announcers sometimes call a high brushbackpitch as being high and tight. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The brushbackpitch was an integral part of his repertoire to back batters off the plate, and was especially tough on right-handed hitters in this respect. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Depending on the exact height and location of the pitch, it can result in a brushbackpitch, or, in the case of a badly controlled pitch, a hit batter. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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