pitching rotation

noun

Baseball.

1. the regular, scheduled succession of starting pitchers designated by a manager.

   a four-man pitching rotation in September.

Example Sentences

They are loaded with stars, from the three-headed monster of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman at the plate to a dominant pitching rotation highlighted by Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

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Conventional wisdom says the odds favor a team with a bye, because that team can set up its pitching rotation for the division series just the way it wants while its opponent burns through its best arms in the wild-card series.

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The Dodgers are one win away from storming through the wild-card series and setting up their pitching rotation for the division series just fine, thank you very much.

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Now it’s up to the team to make a plan for its postseason pitching rotation and figure out exactly where Ohtani fits within it.

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Most of the time only a four-man pitching rotation is necessary for the MLB playoffs.

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