Meanings
nounswitch pitcher (plural switch pitchers)
plural switch pitchers
- ball gamesA pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
As the result of a childhood injury, Larry Kimbrough became both a switch hitter and a switch pitcher, and he carried those abilities all the way to the only major leagues available to a black ballplayer in the early 1940s: the Negro League
2000, Brent P. Kelley, The Negro leagues revisited: conversations with 66 more baseball heroes, →ISBN, page 142
Origin
By analogy with switch hitter.
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switch pitcher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/switch%20pitcher
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