What is "pitches"

Usage examples of "pitches".

Given the previous remark on independence of absolute pitch, we realise that what matters is the relative pitches of the notes.

However, because the musical melody consists of notes held at fixed pitches selected from a finite set of values, the response of the cortical map consists of high activity of some neurons and very low or zero activity of other neurons.

Other instruments, such as the human voice, the violin and the trombone, allow the musician to play notes at arbitrary pitches, and continuously alter the pitch if desired.

Miguel Tejada and Ramon Hernandez and Eric Chavez are still swinging at bad pitches after years of being told not to, how can any list make a difference?

They were praised for their walks, and criticized for swinging at pitches out of the strike zone.

Hatteberg would finish the 2002 season third in the league in pitches seen per plate appearance, behind Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi.

Keeping written records, like seeing lots of pitches during each at bat, was a way to gather information.

If you had a weakness for pitches out of the strike zone, without some extraordinary talent to compensate for it, you were doomed.

I swung at the first pitch was that I only swung at first pitches that were too good not to swing at.

If he had, say, fought off the pitcher for eight straight pitches and lined out hard to center field.

Moyer scrambled his pitches so thoroughly that looking for patterns was a waste of time.

He waits for pitches like a man picking through an apple bin at a grocery store, looking for the ripest.

He just stares at the first four pitches, all millimeters off the plate, and walks down to first base.

The fourth and final time he came to the plate, Moyer teased him with pitches on the edge of the strike zone and quickly got ahead 0-2.

Six pitches into the at bat, with the count 2-2, Jamie Moyer walks off the mound.