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catcher
[ kach-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that catches.
- Baseball. the player stationed behind home plate, whose chief duty is to catch pitches not hit by the batter.
- a member of an aerialist team, as in a circus, who hangs head down from a trapeze and catches another member who has completed a jump or somersault through the air.
- Metalworking. a person who feeds metal rods through a looping mill.
- catch·er res·o·na·tor [kach, -er rez-, uh, -ney-ter]. Electronics. Klystron
catcher
/ ˈæʃə /
noun
- a person or thing that catches, esp in a game or sport
- baseball a fielder who stands behind home plate and catches pitched balls not hit by the batter
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
April 2022: Playing for the Cincinnati Reds, Pham challenged Luke Voit to a fight after the Padres designated hitter collided with Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson on a play at the plate.
One was provided by Barnes, the backup catcher who didn’t have a hit all season before doubling in the first in front of Ohtani.
Then, with Barnes holding his catcher’s mitt low in the zone, Miller fired a fastball that stayed up and over the plate.
“I feel the pressure when there’s a huge crowd like this, but I just lock in and focus like it’s just me and my catcher.”
And seemingly every time he got ahead, catcher Austin Barnes quickly dialed up a splitter, using his signature pitch for all four of his strikeouts in the game.
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