reliever
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He battled Rays reliever Ian Seymour for eight pitches, fouling off a collection of well-placed fastballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Ashby is one out shy of matching the all-time record for the most innings thrown by a reliever in a postseason without surrendering a run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Luckily for them, pitching every game of the postseason seemed to have finally caught up to hard-throwing right-handed reliever Abner Uribe in his seventh appearance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
To determine how quickly material was leaving the stomach, the researchers also administered acetaminophen, a common pain reliever.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The plant would be a valuable pain reliever for Old Benedikt, who was suffering from gout.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Before his fortuitous discovery, Baker was a baseball afterthought with the Baltimore Orioles, just another faceless journeyman in a league filled with unremarkable relievers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Milwaukee sent a parade of four relievers to the mound for a second straight game Monday, and for a second straight game they didn’t give up a run, retiring the last 15 Dodgers in order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the NLDS, the Dodgers left left-handed relievers Justin Wrobleski and Jack Dreyer off the roster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
That is especially true in the playoffs, where starting pitchers have generally been little more than the prologue to a whole parade of relievers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Or maybe the muscle pain relievers Pattie gave him kick in.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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