Bautista, 23, is a hard-throwing relief pitcher with wayward command who was acquired by the Mets in their 2017 trade of relief pitcher Addison Reed.
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The Osuna in question is Astros relief pitcher Roberto Osuna.
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Relief pitcher Scott Alexander walked his lone batter, Brock Holt.
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Hoffman became the sixth primary relief pitcher to reach Cooperstown.
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Strop is a relief pitcher, after all, and that is his job.
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The run scored and Robert Gsellman, the Mets relief pitcher, appeared rattled.
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The relief pitcher refused to testify in the incident and went to Mexico.
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Or is she a relief pitcher sent to help me out, to assist?
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Paul Sewald, a relief pitcher, warmed up in the bullpen as an emergency.
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The Orioles got some help from Minnesota relief pitcher Zach Duke in that inning.
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Extra Bases There is an award for the best relief pitcher in each league.
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In response, the Cubs manager, Joe Maddon, called for the relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman.
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Thirty years ago, 26 major league teams called in a relief pitcher 7,554 times.
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An inning later, Sucre smacked a run-scoring single off relief pitcher Chad Green.
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In exchange, the Indians sent the Mets a minor league relief pitcher, Ryder Ryan.
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"It's frustrating," said Seth Lugo, the latest Mets relief pitcher to blow a game.
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Relief pitcher Jacob Rhame and closer Jeurys Familia combined for three final scoreless frames.
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In the 12th inning, the Mets faced the struggling Nationals relief pitcher Brandon Kintzler.
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Do you, my colleague James Wagner asked relief pitcher Jerry Blevins, like the rain?
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Before the doubleheader, the Nationals announced the signing of free agent relief pitcher Greg Holland.
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" "You're losing your fastball," he wrote, adding, "Time to call in a good relief pitcher.
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In the eighth inning, a Philadelphia relief pitcher sent a fastball sailing at Cabrera's chin.
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Outfielder Brandon Nimmo, the rookie second baseman Jeff McNeil and relief pitcher Seth Lugo thrived.
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Anthony Swarzak, a key Mets relief pitcher, may return next week from his oblique injury.
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As a relief pitcher, he can throw harder, display more emotion and contribute more often.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the given name of a Mets relief pitcher.
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The speedy Mercado came around to score on a throwing error by relief pitcher Gabriel Ynoa.
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RHP Zach McAllister is a serviceable long relief pitcher, which he showed Monday night at Detroit.
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"I don't even remember my hotel room number," relief pitcher Luis Cessa said to nearby teammates.
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Relief pitcher Yacksel Rios came in and set down three St. Louis batters in a row.
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The deal is the longest and most lucrative ever given to a free-agent relief pitcher.
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In the eighth inning of the first game, he was hit by relief pitcher Josh Smith.
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In the eighth inning of the first game, he was hit by relief pitcher Josh Smith.
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But Ryan Madson, the veteran relief pitcher, struck out Frazier and Jay Bruce to escape the danger.
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"It had to be this way," Nationals relief pitcher Sean Doolittle said after closing out Game 73.
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I was a relief pitcher, had a creditable ERA, and would come in to mop up games.
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C/RHP Christian Bethancourt made the Padres' Opening Day roster as the eighth and final relief pitcher.
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Doug Brocail, a former relief pitcher, recovered from two angioplasties to play four more major league seasons.
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The Yankees have blown the game open with a two-out rally against relief pitcher Ryan Pressly.
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"It's just like adding a pinch-hitter or a relief pitcher," Mr. McCarthy said in an interview.
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The relief pitcher has appeared in 41 games, posting a 1-5 record with a 313 ERA.
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The pitching decision did not backfire because the Mets relief pitcher Seth Lugo fired two scoreless innings.
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The legendary relief pitcher serves as co-chair of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
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"It was a relief pitcher that had options," manager Terry Francona said when they traded for Goody.
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Will the music that Trevor May (Twins relief pitcher and nascent EDM DJ) creates get you moving?
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Rick Vaughn, Charlie Sheen's relief pitcher in the 1989 movie "Major League," made the song his intro music.
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"There were a lot of phone calls those last three innings," said Sean Doolittle, the Nationals relief pitcher.
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MLB teams are now 323-0 after Atlanta Braves relief pitcher Shane Greene lost his case on Wednesday.
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Former Padres relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman just missed the 75 percent threshold, falling five votes short of election.
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Relief pitcher Victor Alcantara (2-0) gave up one run in the seventh but picked up the win.
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A few batters after Hill left, Boston's Mitch Moreland hit a 3 run homer off a relief pitcher.
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Over the past three years, Wade Davis has been about as good as a relief pitcher can be.
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Back in December, the Yankees acquired the hardest throwing relief pitcher in baseball history for four unremarkable prospects.
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Callaway had Jerry Blevins, a left-handed relief pitcher who has been inconsistent, warming up in the bullpen.
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" — Jerry Blevins, relief pitcher for the Mets "If you're not scared of your job, get a new job.
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Zack Britton, a Yankees' standout relief pitcher, said Maybin has helped make coming to work every day fun.
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MLB Hall of Famer Barry Larkin and former relief pitcher Jonathan Papelbon were also victims of Watters', WFTV9 reported.
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The Philadelphia Phillies have reportedly signed free-agent relief pitcher David Robertson to a two-year, $232 million deal.
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Last year, Manfred bandied around the idea of getting rid of the shift, now it's curtailing relief pitcher appearances.
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Watch to see if the smartest team in baseball really did trade a bonafide ace for a relief pitcher.
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A day after relief pitcher Brandon Woodruff homered off Clayton Kershaw, Miley collected two hits and scored a run.
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He served up a home run to Erik Kratz and a single to the opposing relief pitcher, Dan Jennings.
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Mr. Nicolau ruled on a variety of other grievances, including the case of the Yankee relief pitcher Steve Howe.
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It should help that they didn't trade one of the best hitters in baseball right now for a relief pitcher.
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Washington Nationals relief pitcher Sean Doolittle, seen here in June 2018, offered advice to MLB players over potentially damaging tweets.
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Servais said when Seager returns, the Mariners will likely recall a relief pitcher from the minors to bolster their bullpen.
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Seth Maness, a 28-year-old relief pitcher in the Kansas City Royals organization, had the surgery in August 2016.
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I amble over to the mother, as nonchalantly as I know how, to offer my services as a relief pitcher.
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Cora told Kelly, the Red Sox' hard-throwing relief pitcher, that he had seen some things that could be fixed.
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Leading off the 14th inning, Torres struck out on a slider in the dirt from Angels relief pitcher Luke Bard.
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Cabrera wound up lining the ball softly back to relief pitcher Richard Bleier, who easily turned a backbreaking double play.
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Relief pitcher Dellin Betances, 30, said he knew exactly how he was performing without the numbers to break it down.
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Hosmer also drove in the Padres' third run in the eighth with a grounder back to relief pitcher Giovanny Gallegos.
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To make room for Adams on the 23.42-man roster, the Nationals designated left-handed relief pitcher Tim Collins for assignment.
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Syndergaard had a chance for more when he went to the plate in the sixth inning against relief pitcher Chris Hatcher.
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"They're a lot alike," said Chris Martin, a relief pitcher with the Texas Rangers, who has been a teammate of both.
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D'Arnaud then went back to the bullpen, where he warmed up relief pitcher Jeurys Familia before he entered the side game.
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At that point, he said, he plans to give them all to Phillies relief pitcher Pat Neshek, a baseball memorabilia collector.
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In fact, the player that Judge hoped the Yankees would sign was neither Machado nor Harper, but relief pitcher Adam Ottavino.
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Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Brandon Morrow pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals in a Cards home game at Busch Stadium on Saturday.
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Mejia, a relief pitcher, missed most of the 2015 season because of two suspensions after he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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So he went back to the clubhouse, and found a shoulder-length crimson wig that belonged to goofball relief pitcher Larry Andersen.
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But that's four prospects, which is a huge haul for any one player, and which borders on insane for a relief pitcher.
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This is what the market demands now for a good relief pitcher, and while it's pretty insane, it's also widely agreed-upon.
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They resisted the old (Nick Swisher) and the new (Aaron Judge) in favor of another relief pitcher, the left-hander James Pazos.
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Ortiz came to the plate with a chance to tie the game against Andrew Miller, the Indians' top left-handed relief pitcher.
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Relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak, 32, missed two months with an oblique strain and entered the day with a 6.46 earned run average.
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Cora might not have had to turn to Porcello if Steven Wright, a relief pitcher and knuckleballer, had been available Friday night.
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"To have Game 23 in our house is probably the biggest advantage we're going to have," Brewers relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress said.
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"It's a cool tradition, whether you have one day as a Yankee or 257 or 254 years," relief pitcher Zack Britton said.
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With Jeurys Familia sitting out to rest, the rookie relief pitcher Jacob Rhame converted the first save of his major league career.
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Rivera, the Yankees relief pitcher, became the first unanimous selection when he was chosen by all 425 voters on last year's ballot.
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Cronenworth, 25, was drafted by the Rays in the seventh round in 2015 and has served as an infielder and relief pitcher.
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Zack Britton, a fine relief pitcher, signed a three-year, $39 million contract this winter with the Yankees, and counted himself lucky.
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Seattle also got bad news when relief pitcher David Phelps reinjured his right elbow during just a third of an inning of work.
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Major League Baseball is investigating racist social media posts aimed at Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Carl Edwards, a league spokesman told The Athletic.
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Houston Astros relief pitcher Ken Giles was feeling frustrated after he was taken out of Tuesday night's game against the New York Yankees.
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Yankees manager Joe Girardi and relief pitcher Tommy Kahnle had just been ejected after Kahnle threw a pitch behind Cabrera in the sixth.
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Liriano had success as a relief pitcher previously, and sending him to the bullpen could be an option for Pirates manager Clint Hurdle.
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Baltimore Orioles outfielder Stevie Wilkerson recorded an unlikely save on Thursday night, taking the mound as a relief pitcher in the 16th inning.
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If the Cubs did hold on, it meant that relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman would very likely be asked to get the final outs.
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They called her "the closer" during Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, like a go-to relief pitcher used sparingly but with devastating effect. Mrs.
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Over a decade on, now with the Kansas City Royals, the Perth-born relief pitcher is part of the best bullpen in baseball.
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Syndergaard did his part: He allowed three runs over seven innings on Wednesday, and was followed by only one relief pitcher, Seth Lugo.
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"Luis did that for everyone who couldn't pay," the Mets relief pitcher Jeurys Familia, who is from the Dominican Republic, said in Spanish.
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"Over 10 years I've been in baseball, there's been talk about the next wave of medical care," said the relief pitcher Jerry Blevins.
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With Greg Bird and D. J. LeMahieu on base, Orioles relief pitcher Mike Wright decided to throw Torres a second straight high fastball.
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On Tuesday, the Mets could have called up a relief pitcher from Class AAA Las Vegas to take Syndergaard's spot on the roster.
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Since then, Flores, Ramos and Syndergaard landed on the disabled list, and catcher Kevin Plawecki and relief pitcher Hansel Robles returned from it.
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"We'd go out to play in March and April and have to sweep the snow off the basepaths," the veteran relief pitcher said.
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They also kept A.J. Ramos, an experienced relief pitcher who is owed $9.2 million this season, to strengthen the back of the bullpen.
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The late rally helped the Mets salvage a win despite Harvey's rough start and a critical run allowed by relief pitcher Robert Gsellman.
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The groom was formerly a professional baseball player and relief pitcher for the Kalamazoo Kings in the Eastern Division of the Frontier League.
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The Cubs are expected to call up a relief pitcher to replace Gonzalez after the bullpen combined for seven innings one day earlier.
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Syndergaard had a chance to add to the total when he went to the plate in the sixth inning against relief pitcher Chris Hatcher.
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Foremost among them is that, in all but the rarest cases, he will not use the same relief pitcher three days in a row.
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Only relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, Jeter's teammate, exceeded that, receiving 100 percent of the votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America last year.
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Before the game, the Mets placed struggling relief pitcher A.J. Ramos (rotator cuff tendinitis) and infielder Wilmer Flores (sore back) on the disabled list.
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The Yankees elected to keep Maybin on the roster, instead sending relief pitcher Nestor Cortes Jr. to Class AAA to make room for Judge.
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In commending Callaway over the weekend, Mets relief pitcher Jeurys Familia, perhaps inadvertently, made comments viewed by some fans as a subtle criticism of Collins.
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The Mariners reportedly will acquire outfielder Jay Bruce, relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak, and top prospects OF Jarred Kelenic, and pitchers Justin Dunn and Gerson Bautista.
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He still could become a very expensive relief pitcher depending on whom Manager Joe Girardi chooses for his five-man rotation from the six candidates.
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Tuesday, the possibility remained that the Yankees might trade for an outfielder after acquiring the relief pitcher Zach Britton and starter J.A. Happ this week.
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During the Cleveland Indians' 2016 World Series run, pitching so much, particularly high-stress innings, may have worn down the star relief pitcher Andrew Miller.
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The males swarm around an object — a light pole, a puddle of water, or a right-handed relief pitcher — waiting for the females to arrive.
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Bregman got to first base in the seventh inning on the second of two throwing errors by Trevor Bauer, the Indians' starter-turned-relief pitcher.
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The New York Yankees reached a three-year deal with free agent relief pitcher Adam Ottavino for $21 million, according to multiple reports on Thursday.
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In 1976, unheralded Detroit Tigers rookie Mark Fidrych opened the season as a little-used relief pitcher, pitching just twice in the season's first five weeks.
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He prepared two projects — on how in-game moves affected win probability and on relief pitcher valuation — that he hoped would showcase his problem-solving skills.
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Luke Jackson, Atlanta's fourth relief pitcher, earned his 18th save of the season with a scoreless ninth inning, stranding runners on the corners with two outs.
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"We had a good game plan," said Hicks, who hit two home runs right-handed off Price and one lefty off the relief pitcher Hector Velazquez.
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In April, Mr. Rivera, a relief pitcher like his father whose fastball had topped out at 97 miles per hour, decided to slow things down, permanently.
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After Yankees relief pitcher Zack Britton pitched out of a jam in the bottom of the eighth inning, Estrada led off the top of the ninth.
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Brett Gardner smashed a go-ahead grand slam, the 100th home run of his career, off Red Sox relief pitcher Ryan Brasier in the seventh inning.
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He led the National League in earned run average (2.30) and shutouts (6) and tied the Giants' relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm for best winning percentage (.750).
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He's been mostly a relief pitcher during three seasons, but he threw 5 1/03 shutout innings and scattered five hits, fanning five with one walk.
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Adam Ottavino, a former relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, warmed up last month at a facility he rents in Harlem from his father-in-law.
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"It'd be more of a gesture for a guy who has had a Hall of Fame career type of thing," Yankees relief pitcher Zack Britton said.
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At the meetings, the general managers discussed issues that included relief pitcher trends, strikeout trends and pace of play, said Dan Halem, M.L.B.'s chief legal officer.
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Andrew Benintendi's sacrifice fly off Mets relief pitcher Seth Lugo drove in Tzu-Wei Lin in the eighth inning to give the Red Sox the winning run.
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He was no less frenetic this trade deadline, acquiring yet another top relief pitcher in Zach Britton (collect them all!) and better than average starters in J.
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His solo home run off Cleveland relief pitcher Andrew Miller helped the Yankees stay alive with a 1-0 win in Game 3 of the division series.
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To preserve the health of the bullpen with an eye toward the postseason, the team vowed to avoid using a relief pitcher three days in a row.
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Ex-Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress is among the list of several current MLB players who have previously been popped for using weed in the minors.
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INSIDE PITCH Catcher Kevin Plawecki (broken left hand) and relief pitcher Hansel Robles (sprained right knee) were scheduled to begin rehab assignments at Class AAA Las Vegas.
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CHICAGO — White Sox relief pitcher Danny Farquhar was in critical condition on Saturday, a day after suffering a brain hemorrhage while in the dugout during a game.
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Mets relief pitcher Jeurys Familia has been suspended for the first 2250 games of the season in connection with domestic violence accusations last year involving his wife.
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The relief pitcher was just sitting in the bullpen spitting sunflower seeds for the last two hours with a telephone hookup to the dugout five feet away.
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Taubman was referring to Roberto Osuna, a relief pitcher acquired by the Astros last season while he was serving a 75-game suspension over accusations of domestic violence.
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LeBlanc (5-2), a left-hander, improved to 3-0 in five outings this month — all with the Mariners using a relief pitcher as an opener for him.
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No relief pitcher had ever sniffed a five-year contract until Ryan, and he had done so with what amounted to a minimal track record at the time.
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Before the first game of the playoffs, relief pitcher Steven Wright went down with a knee injury, but Matt Barnes and Ryan Brasier got the job done instead.
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He saw firsthand how the star relief pitcher Andrew Miller was more useful at putting out fires against the heart of an opponent's lineup regardless of the inning.
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It got worse later in the day: Manager Aaron Boone revealed that relief pitcher Dellin Betances' return from a shoulder injury discovered in spring training had been stalled.
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As the Brewers have shown throughout this season, they are solidly among the teams that want to move away from the traditional interpretations of starting and relief pitcher.
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And regardless of how impressive his pitches are, the most important asset for Miller, or for any late-inning relief pitcher, is the capacity to rebound from failure.
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Chicago led by one run in the eighth inning when Abreu increased the lead to 2104-24.38 with a two-run double against right-handed relief pitcher Junichi Tazawa.
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A BUNCH of MLB stars -- from Cody Bellinger to CC Sabathia -- have been livid over Manfred's findings ... and a former relief pitcher just sued Houston over it all too.
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Eleven years ago this week, Billy Wagner broke baseball's average salary record for a relief pitcher by inking a four-year, $43 million contract with the New York Mets.
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A Mets relief pitcher, Jenrry Mejia, pulled off a bonehead trifecta last year, being nabbed for the third time in 2400 months for use of a crude anabolic steroid.
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Yankees 43, Red Sox 3 While players on the Yankees' bench gaped at Gary Sanchez's one-handed homer, Manager Aaron Boone was already thinking about his next relief pitcher.
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In return, the Mets are expected to give up two of their top prospects — outfielder Jarred Kelenic and pitcher Justin Dunn — plus a minor league relief pitcher, Gerson Bautista.
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As relief pitcher Stephen Tarpley warmed up in the bullpen, Paxton escaped the inning with strikeouts of Rickard and Chris Davis, but he had needed 32 pitches in all.
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Their I.L. could form almost an entire new team from stars such as relief pitcher Dellin Betances, starting pitcher Luis Severino, outfielder Giancarlo Stanton and third baseman Miguel Andujar.
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After Woodruff, 21924, became the third relief pitcher in major league history to hit a postseason home run the Brewers chased Kershaw from the game with four more runs.
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Mr. Trump bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Mariano Rivera, a member of five Yankees championship teams who is widely considered the best relief pitcher in baseball history.
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A former MLB relief pitcher says the Houston Astros RUINED his career by cheating to get hits off him in 2017 ... and now, he's suing for a ton of cash.
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The team got the relief pitcher from the Toronto Blue Jays in 2018, weeks after Major League Baseball gave him a 75-game suspension for violating its domestic violence policy.
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He had retired 24 in a row when he expressed slight discomfort after throwing his 215th pitch — a ball to relief pitcher Chris Stratton with two outs in the eighth.
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In addition, they placed relief pitcher Mike Dunn on the 10-day disabled list with acromioclavicular joint inflammation, retroactive to Wednesday, and put catcher Tom Murphy on the paternity list.
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And key relief pitcher Chad Green, who spent about three weeks in the minor leagues fixing his mechanics, returned on Sunday and struck out the side in the ninth inning.
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In Major League, there's a moment where the Cleveland Indians' crusty manager decides that flamethrowing relief pitcher Charlie Sheen should forget about the curveball, and just give them the heater.
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Mets relief pitcher Jesse Orosco gave him the glove he was wearing when he got the final out in the team's 1986 World Series victory over the Boston Red Sox.
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He brought in right-hander Charlie Morton and outfielder Avisail Garcia via free agency, and he turned to the trade market to grab infielder Yandy Diaz and relief pitcher Emilio Pagan.
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The closer is a relief pitcher who typically enters the game in the ninth inning with his team ahead by three runs or less and, normally, with no runners on base.
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Facing Andrew Miller, the Indians' ace relief pitcher, Ross slammed a 1-2 pitch over the wall in center field, getting back one of the runs the Cubs had just surrendered.
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"We were talking about it in the bullpen: I can't remember a game that I've been a part of like that in a long time," Mets relief pitcher Paul Sewald said.
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It was a shocking turnaround for a player who from 1.933 to 2018 was second to only Craig Kimbrel in E.R.A., at 2.08 in nearly 143 innings as a relief pitcher.
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"I've seen people getting wheeled in and out a few times, which was a little — different," said Yankees relief pitcher Chad Green, who lived in the apartment here in early 2017.
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Relief pitcher Chad Green does not typically peer into his cap, but he was caught doing so a bit too long as he stepped off the rubber during a recent outing.
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Yet that is exactly what Woodruff, a rookie relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, did on Friday night against the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw, one of the best pitchers of this generation.
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Relief pitcher Ken Giles is prepared to return his World Series ring from the 23 season with the Astros, saying he wasn't aware of the sign-stealing plot while with Houston.
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Speaking after an owners' meeting, Manfred felt encouraged the union responded to management's proposal for a pitch clock and a three-batter minimum for a relief pitcher unless an inning ends.
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Yates (0-2) has been the losing pitcher each of the last two nights after converting 14 straight save opportunities to be named the National League Relief Pitcher of Month for April.
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A relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday lit up the radar gun with two pitches registering at 105 mph in the team's 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Relief pitcher Antonio Senzatela earned the win and smacked an RBI double to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 24-73 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday night at Marlins Park.
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The 40-year-old reliever has gotten pounded in back-to-back outings and appears as a likely candidate to be DFA'd if the Mariners activate relief pitcher Joaquin Benoit next week.
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Yates (0-2) has been the losing pitcher each of the last two nights after converting 21 straight save opportunities to be named the National League Relief Pitcher of Month for April.
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Justin Verlander and Dallas Keuchel -- along with relief pitcher Tyler Clippard hit up Delilah in West Hollywood on Sunday evening ... one of the hottest joints in town (Bieber was there last month).
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Over the past two years, he's been every bit as good as Betances, Chapman and Zach Britton, who just had one of the greatest seasons by a relief pitcher of all time.
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But Muncy struck out against Woodruff, despite the more favorable matchup, and then, the next time through the order, was left to face Josh Hader, the Brewers' dominant left-handed relief pitcher.
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The Yankees, certain that he would pitch well in a return to New York, lavished a five-year, $86 million contract on Chapman — the richest deal ever given to a relief pitcher.
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An article on Monday about the Mets' 7-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies misstated the given name of the Mets relief pitcher who gave up three runs in the eighth inning.
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Baseball Hall of Fame: Mariano Rivera, the relief pitcher who helped the New York Yankees win five World Series, became the first player to be elected unanimously to the Hall of Fame.
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And they have approached other key players, like outfielder Aaron Hicks and relief pitcher Dellin Betances, about possible extensions — which will weigh much heavier on the Yankees' payroll than their current deals.
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Cosart retired the first 10 Diamondbacks he faced before giving up four runs in the fourth on two infield hits, two walks and a two-run throwing error by relief pitcher Craig Stammen.
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The Twins also activated outfielder Eddie Rosario (sprained left ankle) and first baseman C.J. Cron (right thumb inflammation) from the 219-day injured list, and they designated relief pitcher Mike Morin for assignment.
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Aaron Hicks hit a ball very hard, but right to first baseman Matt Olson, and so the A's immediately had action in the bullpen with former Yankees relief pitcher Shawn Kelley warming up.
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As a Tecolotes van snaked through the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo on the way to the stadium on a recent afternoon, the relief pitcher Iván Zavala pointed out a hot zone for shootings.
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Chad Green, the Yankees relief pitcher who replaced Tanaka, said he struggled to look the correct way — to his right, not left as he would in the United States — when crossing the street.
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When pinch-hitter Bautista drew a walk against the Brewers standout relief pitcher Josh Hader with two outs in the seventh inning, Callaway let the struggling backup infielder Jose Reyes, who was hitting .
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With the Mets leading by one run, he stuck with Paul Sewald, a right-handed relief pitcher who has improved against left-handed batters, to face Nick Williams, a left-handed pinch-hitter.
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Betances will revert to the setup role after the Yankees signed Chapman to a five-year, $86 million free-agent contract in December, the most lucrative contract ever awarded to a relief pitcher.
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Lavishing such a lucrative and long contract on a relief pitcher can be a risky business because the sample sizes for relievers are small and their numbers can fluctuate from year to year.
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SPORTS An article on Monday about the Mets' 7-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies misstated the given name of the Mets relief pitcher who gave up three runs in the eighth inning.
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The list included the mundane—bats, helmets, free weights, a pitching machine—and the offbeat, such as 1,200-plus obsolete baseballs, 54 bobbleheads and one hockey net for a certain left-handed relief pitcher.
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The latest eruption comes courtesy of Josh Hader, a 24-year-old white relief pitcher with a smoking fastball and a Twitter account filled with hideous thoughts typed when he was 17 and 19553.
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On for his second inning, Yankees relief pitcher Jonathan Holder, who had not pitched as well to start this season as he did last year, notched two outs in the bottom of the 14th.
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"He's like a relief pitcher — kind of loose and relaxed and easy to hang around with," said Jeff Roe, the Republican strategist and general consultant for a number of high-profile races this year.
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"In the past, if a guy gets the flu in the clubhouse, pretty much a good amount of guys will get that; the cold, the same thing," said Zack Britton, a Yankees relief pitcher.
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Milwaukee runs in the seventh and eighth innings gave Counsell a bigger cushion to use Corbin Burnes to complete the game and to save Josh Hader, the Brewers' best relief pitcher, for Game 7.
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Earlier this month, the Pirates fined Vázquez for getting into a fight with fellow relief pitcher Kyle Crick, who suffered an injury to his index finger in the fracas that required season-ending surgery.
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After being called up from the minors to the major leagues various times and playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bolsinger was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, where he became a relief pitcher.
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The Yankees' bullpen foibles — they have a major-league-worst 18 blown save opportunities — serve as an example of how volatile relief pitcher performance can be, even with someone as well established as Chapman.
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Then Miller delivered a market-crushing early return on his four-year, $36 million contract by pitching so well as the Yankees' closer that he was named the American League relief pitcher of the year.
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The Reds also put relief pitcher David Hernandez (right shoulder fatigue) and catcher Curt Casali (right knee sprain) on the 10-day injured list and infielder Kyle Farmer (concussion) on the seven-day injured list.
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It's difficult for a relief pitcher to stand out on a given night, but tying a fastest-pitch record and continuing to make the Fastest Pitch leaderboard his own personal website certainly does the trick.
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But realizing that Syndergaard, his prized starter, came well short of a day's work, Collins used him as a relief pitcher during Tuesday night's 6-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox at Citi Field.
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Relief pitcher Ranger Suarez (22-1) allowed four of the five batters he faced to reach base in the sixth, with Avila delivering a two-run single with the bases loaded for a 4-3 lead.
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"Holding a school accountable for such students is like charging a relief pitcher with a loss when they enter a game three runs behind and wiping out the record of the starting pitcher," his statement said.
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And Daniel Zamora is the only left-handed relief pitcher currently on the team's major league roster, and his experience in the big leagues consists of the 16 games he pitched for the Mets last season.
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Infielder Mauricio Dubon, 25, acquired in a July 31 trade with the Milwaukee Brewers for pitcher Drew Pomeranz, was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento, along with right-handed relief pitcher Tyler Rogers and outfielder Joey Rickard.
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Roberts's Dodgers have their own standout relief pitcher: Kenley Jansen, who allows an average of far less than one base runner for each inning he works and has converted 19573 of 40 save opportunities this year.
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Relief pitcher Mike Bolsinger is suing the Astros claiming their sign-stealing scheme is the reason his career was cut short after an August 2017 game in which he gave up four runs against the Astros.
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It is also why the Yankees — after dealing him to the Cubs at the trade deadline last year — lured him back with a five-year, $86 million contract, the richest deal ever for a relief pitcher.
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"They'll figure it out somehow and get it done," said Yankees star relief pitcher Dellin Betances, who was born in New York to Dominican parents, played for the Dominican national team and visits every off-season.
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He made his major league debut with the Mets in 2010, and in the seasons that followed, he began to carve out the beginning of what stood to be a lucrative career as a formidable relief pitcher.
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A 212-foot, 240-pound right-handed relief pitcher who, as a rookie in 217, was giddily compared to Mariano Rivera, Mejia rebounded from injuries to become a capable closer for the Mets in the 22011 season.
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Over the past two days, Matt Harvey, the Mets' disgruntled starting-pitcher-turned-relief pitcher — a player who has served as the team's union representative — declined to cooperate in discussing his first outing in his new role.
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A four-out, 36-pitch effort ended with Miller leaving the bases loaded in a 3-93 victory, recording his sixth save — after 36 last season, when he was honored as the American League's best relief pitcher.
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He was still among the hardest throwers in baseball, but for the first time since 963, Chapman was not tops: St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Jordan Hicks, nine years younger, claimed the title with a 100.5-m.p.h.
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During his two seasons' managing the Dodgers, he has come to believe that a team's most effective relief pitcher should be used not just to finish games but whenever he can have a decisive influence on them.
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No matter your opinion on a hypothetical 26th player—why it might be a designated spot for another fucking relief pitcher, or how there might be a trade-off with September roster expansion—these are relatively minor issues.
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Because of an editing error, an item in the Extra Bases column last Sunday about the rosters for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game misstated Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Ryan Madson's saves total and earned run average.
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He played five seasons in the California Angels' farm system, but came to realize that there wasn't much of a future in the major leagues for a side-arming relief pitcher whose fastballs only reached the high 80s.
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As if one injury to a key player was not enough, the Yankees watched Urshela be struck on the left hand by an 89-mile-per-hour fastball from Giants relief pitcher Nick Vincent in the fifth inning.
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As they pushed for a playoff spot this September, they once started the relief pitcher Dan Jennings against the St. Louis Cardinals but pulled him after he faced the leadoff batter Matt Carpenter, a star left-handed hitter.
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In the end, the Mets lost because of a seventh-inning, three-run home run by pinch-hitter Nick Williams, a left-handed hitter, off Paul Sewald, a right-handed relief pitcher in his second inning of work.
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In the August 2017 game, which proved to be the last of Bolsinger's MLB career, the relief pitcher surrendered four runs, four hits and three walks in one-third of an inning of a 20183-7 Astros victory.
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Jose Iglesias hit a pinch-hit solo home run in the seventh to move Cincinnati ahead 6-5, and relief pitcher/center fielder Michael Lorenzen drilled a two-run blast in the eighth to make it 21-230.
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The advent of the relief pitcher as a separate role and career path in the 21918s made it possible for managers to minimise the impact of the TTOP, by bringing in a fresh arm before their starters became ineffective.
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SPORTS Because of an editing error, an item in the Extra Bases column last Sunday about the rosters for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game misstated Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Ryan Madson's saves total and earned run average.
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He came off the bench with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to pinch-hit, then blasted a game-ending, two-run home run off Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley, a future Hall of Famer.
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DeGrom is a more vital player than relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak (oblique injury), and catchers Travis d'Arnaud (season-ending Tommy John surgery) and Kevin Plawecki (expected to return later this month from a hairline fracture in his left hand).
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Roark limited the Mets to two runs and two hits in seven strong innings, but the Mets attacked the Washington bullpen in the eighth — especially relief pitcher Ryan Madson, who had been effective in the Nationals' win the previous night.
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He started the season as our closer and rewarded our faith in him: He had the league's fourth-best earned-run average among those with at least 30 innings and won the award for the Pacific Association's best relief pitcher.
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In the case of the Mets' game Wednesday afternoon against the Chicago White Sox, a relief pitcher who said he had last taken batting practice in 22014 scored the deciding run in the White Sox' 103-210 win at Citi Field.
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These are the small sample sizes of a situational relief pitcher, but if Scott Radinsky proved anything during his years as a big league reliever and professional punk musician, it's that enthusiastic focus can really pay off in short bursts.
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The Dodgers toyed with the idea of using an "opener," a growing trend in baseball that involves starting the game with a relief pitcher, based on matchups, and then replacing him with a traditional starter capable of throwing more innings.
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They used four of them after starting pitcher Steven Matz exited early with a finger injury, and the fifth available reliever was warming up in the bullpen when the team lost with the rookie relief pitcher Gerson Bautista on the mound.
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As far as other injuries on the team, relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak, who signed a two year $14 million contract with the Mets this winter, was still recovering from a left oblique injury he suffered the first week of the season.
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PITCHER'S PINCH-HIT HOMER LIFTS REDS Relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen connected for a pinch-hit homer that put Cincinnati ahead and the Reds overcame a rough major league debut by Rookie Davis to beat the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, 24-228.
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The nachos were named for relief pitcher Robbie Ross, and when he was eventually traded to the Boston Red Sox, they lopped his name off—they're Totally Awesome now—but kept the chips and the cheese and that huge plastic helmet.
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The two prospects the Mets received were third baseman William Toffey, 23, who was rated the 17th-best prospect in the A's farm system, and relief pitcher Bobby Wahl, 26, who has minimal major league experience and a history of injuries.
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"When you're struggling, he's always there for you," the relief pitcher Mariano Rivera told the New Jersey newspaper The Record in October 1998, after the Yankees defeated the San Diego Padres to begin their string of three straight World Series titles.
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Joe Blanton retired from the game and bought a vineyard in the Napa Valley, returning to the pros as a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers (a neighbour got him back into the game: he needed somebody to play catch with).
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Three years later, his teammate Drew Storen, a relief pitcher, broke his right thumb when he hit his locker after giving up a go-ahead home run to the Mets slugger Yoenis Cespedes as the Nationals were swept in a key September series.
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Jose Iglesias hit a pinch-hit solo home run in the seventh off reliever Jose Alvarez (3-4) to move Cincinnati back ahead 6-5, and relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen drilled a two-run blast in the eighth to make it 53-5.
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To help balance their costs, the Mets are expected to send the Mariners two veteran players whose contracts expire much sooner than Cano's: outfielder Jay Bruce ($2016 million over two more years) and relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak ($22017 million for next year).
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He had a Hall of Fame career, one of the best in the history of the game, and his cumulative career earnings in 20 years totaled a hair under $6 million, or roughly what an average relief pitcher makes in today's game.
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He was a relief pitcher on two of the most successful teams ever: the '98 Yankees and the 2001 Seattle Mariners, who won 116 games to tie the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the season record (though the Cubs did it in 154 games).
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On Tuesday, with the Red Sox leading, 22013-22018, with two out in that fateful eighth inning, Bradley blasted a 2200-24 fastball from relief pitcher Roberto Osuna to give Boston an 22-2238 lead that held up as the final score.
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But with Jerry Blevins, the most-used relief pitcher in the majors this season, unavailable after having either pitched or warmed up in each of the last four games, Collins had already made his decision: He needed one more inning out of Gsellman.
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That dynamic actually conjures more drama in the downstairs part of the house, where the retired butler Carson (Jim Carter) is brought out of retirement like an old relief pitcher, much to the chagrin of his replacement, Mr. Barrow (Robert James-Collier).
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"Due to the inning against the Houston Astros, Plaintiff Bolsinger was no longer seen as a successful relief pitcher that could be trusted in this role and was not picked up by the Blue Jays for the following year," the lawsuit read.
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INSIDE PITCH Dellin Betances, the Yankees' star relief pitcher who has been out since spring training with a right shoulder injury, has a low grade strain of his right latissimus dorsi muscle and will be shut down for a couple weeks, Manager Aaron Boone said.
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CLEVELAND — Game 2 of this American League division series was hanging in the balance Friday night when Yan Gomes stood at home plate in the bottom of the 13th inning, waving his bat at the best the Yankees relief pitcher Dellin Betances had to offer.
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The first time Fernando Salas, a relief pitcher from Mexico, spoke with reporters after the Mets acquired him from the Los Angeles Angels at the end of August, he gamely tried English, which he is still learning, and was roundly applauded for his efforts.
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An inning later, Mets shortstop Amed Rosario misplayed a grounder hit by Greg Garcia, who moved to third on a single by Matt Carpenter and then tied the game on another single by Pham off the first pitch he saw from Mets relief pitcher Robert Gsellman.
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Instead, the Cubs were smart, choosing not to overpay for players like closer Aroldis Chapman — who became the highest paid relief pitcher in history when he signed with the Yankees this week — and Dexter Fowler, who took a five-year, $82 million deal with the Cardinals.
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In addition to deciding the personnel of the rotation, Boone told reporters the team had not ruled out using an opener, an increasingly popular tactic in which a relief pitcher begins the game and is replaced by the traditional starting pitcher to take advantage of matchups.
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"Whatever you can do to win the game, you should do," said Ted Power, a right-handed relief pitcher who was given the surprise assignment of starting Game 6 of the 1990 N.L.C.S. for the Pittsburgh Pirates in an attempt to force the Cincinnati Reds' hand.
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"When you have the resources that we do to go out and acquire high-end free agents but at the same time give yourself the options in AAA or AA to help cover for injuries like we are right now, it's important," Yankees relief pitcher Zack Britton said.
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An inning against the Astros in which Bolsinger let up four runs during a 16-7 August rout undermined his reputation as a "successful" relief pitcher, and he was "immediately sent down to Triple A after the game never to be called up again," according to the lawsuit.
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Over the course of eight and a half hours, the definition of "ho-hum" would be expanded to include flooded outfields, Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, and a relief pitcher named Rick Lamar Camp extending the game to a 19th inning with what would be his only MLB home run.
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Dressed in a light blue suit and occasionally speaking through an interpreter, Jeurys Familia, the Mets' top relief pitcher, made his first court appearance Thursday in connection with a domestic violence incident last month in which he was charged with scratching the chest and bruising the right cheek of his wife.
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Mr. Chapman, a star relief pitcher whose fastball has been clocked at 103 miles per hour, comes to the Bronx from Cincinnati in a trade that cost the Yankees four minor-league players, an exchange roughly equivalent to swapping a Brooklyn brownstone for a few rooms in a high-rise in Weehawken.
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At present, my job is something like that of a max-effort one-inning relief pitcher: I show up, go all out trying to keep my niece from smearing anything disgusting onto anything important, hang my nephew upside down as needed, and then hand the ball back to the manager around naptime.
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On Wednesday, Trump will publicly tout the importance of physical fitness during an event on the White House South Lawn, accompanied by his daughter Ivanka and major sports figures such as legendary New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera and Misty May-Treanor, a three-time Olympic gold medal winning beach volleyball player.
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If Jerome Powell moves to cut interest rates by midsummer as the market now projects, the Federal Reserve chairman will be like a baseball manager calling for his best relief pitcher in the seventh inning to keep the game from getting out of hand rather than waiting until the ninth to close out a win.
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It's a pleasingly human irony—he may lead a revolutionary team, but Kerr still finds comfort in the sounds of an era when musicians with relief-pitcher goatees and burlap hats gave voice to the needs and frustrations of other men with similar facial hair by making guttural keening sounds and taking unhurried guitar solos.
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In a 4-3 win over the Yankees on Tuesday that sent the Red Sox to the A.L. Championship Series against the Houston Astros, Cora again displayed an aggressiveness, like using Sale as a relief pitcher, that his counterpart in the other dugout, Aaron Boone, a fellow first-year manager, lacked with his standout bullpen.
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Before their fifth defeat in the past six games — an 8-7 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers in which the bullpen stumbled again — the Mets announced that the struggling relief pitcher A.J. Ramos, after two straight awful outings this weekend, had flown back to New York to undergo tests for tightness in his throwing shoulder.
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Lacking enough assets to plug holes through trades, the Mets spent $225 million in the off-season on six players 229 or older: first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, 225; third baseman Todd Frazier, 22017; right fielder Jay Bruce, who will turn 2159 on Tuesday; relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak, 6423; starting pitcher Jason Vargas, 2642; and Reyes.
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RHP Corey Knebel continued his torrid start to the season Tuesday night, when he recorded three strikeouts over 443 1/3 innings of perfect relief in the Brewers' 5-4, 12-inning loss to the Mets, Knebel has recorded at least one strikeout in all 26 of his appearances this season, which is the third-longest streak for a relief pitcher since 1900.
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