pitch

in baseball, the act of throwing the ball toward the home plate to start play
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pitch

Summary

pitch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (784 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pitch is a type of throwing[2].
  • pitch is a type of sports technique[3].
  • pitch's Commons category is recorded as Baseball pitches[4].
  • A participant in pitch was pitcher[5].
  • Among those involved in pitch was catcher[6].
  • pitch's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Baseball pitches[7].
  • pitch's facet of is recorded as baseball[8].
  • pitch's has effect is recorded as strike[9].
  • pitch's has effect is recorded as ball[10].
  • pitch's has effect is recorded as foul ball[11].
  • pitch's has effect is recorded as hit by pitch[12].
  • pitch's different from is recorded as pickoff[13].
  • pitch's has goal is recorded as strike[14].
  • pitch's source of transfer is recorded as pitcher[15].
  • pitch's destination of transfer is recorded as catcher[16].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include throwing[2] and sports technique[3].

Why It Matters

pitch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (784 views/month).[1] pitch has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] pitch is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect strike, ball, foul ball +1
    Destination of transfer catcher
    Subclass of
    Aliases
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007550810905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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