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Whence a reliever comes
Answer for the clue "Whence a reliever comes ", 7 letters:
bullpen
Alternative clues for the word bullpen
- A large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- Where pitchers warm
- A place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game
- Source of relief?
- Where to go for relief
- Pitcher's warm-up area
- Warmup area
Word definitions for bullpen in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bullpen \bull"pen`\ (b[.u]l"p[e^]n`), n. (Baseball) an open area in a baseball stadium, off the playing field, where pitchers may warm up by throwing a number of trial pitches before playing. [collective] the relief pitchers on a baseball team. Contrasted ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In baseball , the bullpen (or simply the pen ) is the area where relief pitchers warm-up before entering a game. A team's roster of relief pitchers is also metonymically referred to as "the bullpen". These pitchers usually wait in the bullpen if they have ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An enclosed area used to hold bulls. 2 (context baseball English) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game. 3 (context baseball English) The relief pitchers of a team collectively. 4 ''(metaphorical)'' A figurative place for someone ...
Usage examples of bullpen.
James, the owner of The Bullpen, had recruited him in a bar one night when he was between construction jobs and low on cash.
When he had first seen her at The Bullpen, it was dark, and her hair was loose and kind of wild, blowing around her shoulders and hiding part of her face.
The Bullpen, and on the way there, or back, you were in a fatal accident?
She was the first and last woman customer at The Bullpen that he had gotten personal with, except for Beverly.
He picked up the phone and dialed The Bullpen, knowing Amanda did her bookkeeping on Sundays.
In fact, she was certain it looked exactly like the first sports car that had caught her eye at The Bullpen when she originally traveled to 1996.
He never worked part-time at The Bullpen or lived in a cheap one-room walkup.
He was placed in one of the two solitary cells, as far away from the crowded bullpen as possible, but the jail was so small that Ron could disrupt it from anywhere.
The jailers moved Ron from his isolation cell into a bullpen with a dozen others, an arrangement that proved disastrous.
In the crowded bullpen of the jail, he had quizzed Dennis about the murder.
Each bullpen was designed for eight men but was often more crowded than that.
A set of double doors led into the main bullpen, and another door connected to his office.
He had to run up and down over the bullpen mound to make a catch, and then throw a tagging runner out at the plate.
You could see why guys used to come down from the bullpen when Billy Beane hit, just to see what he would do if he struck out.
To fill the hole at the back of his bullpen Billy had traded to the Toronto Blue jays a minor league third baseman, Eric Hinske, for Billy Koch, another crude fireballer.