Thesaurus results for PITCHES

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noun

plural of pitch

as in dives

an act or instance of diving the daring pitch of the escaped prisoner into the swirling ocean waters at the base of the cliff

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jumps
leaps

as in slopes

the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon the steep pitch of the roof makes it too dangerous to walk on

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pitches

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verb

present tense third-person singular of pitch

as in erects

to fix in an upright position needed help pitching a tent

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as in plunges

to cast oneself head first into deep water when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake

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surfaces

as in rocks

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the ship pitched in the choppy sea

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as in throws

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm pitched the baseball almost 50 feet

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as in discards

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again

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as in promotes

to provide publicity for the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers

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as in tilts

to set or cause to be at an angle the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow

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Recent Examples of pitches

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Crochet opened the fifth at 60 pitches and got two quick strikeouts before leadoff man Jahmai Jones’ solo homer gave Detroit a 2-1 lead. —

Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Bruihl battled Yordan Alvarez for eight pitches. —

Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2026 Crochet walked Gleyber Torres on four pitches and allowed a single to Vierling to put two men on, and that brought up Dingler, who drove a 3-1 fastball just over the wall by the center field flagpole. —

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026 Sasaki went 4-2/3 innings, threw 78 pitches and gave up three runs on seven hits, striking out two and walking two. —

Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026 Ureña threw 92 pitches, including 56 strikes. —

Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026 Had good off-speed pitches as well. —

Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2026 Joel Kuhnel earned his second save with a perfect ninth on four pitches, prompting a chorus of boos from the Citi Field crowd. —

CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026

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Player of the week Senior left-hander Will Bemrich pitches a no-hitter with seven strikeouts in Mundelein’s 10-1 North Suburban Conference win over Stevenson on April 13 as the Parkland commit allows just five hits in his first 16 innings this season. —

Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 The agency pitches itself as a one-stop shop for affordable housing financing and says by simplifying a complicated funding process developers can build cheaper. —

Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026 For seasoned songwriters, Shulman pitches Suno as a supercharger. —

Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026 Instead, the company pitches it to a more general professional audience. —

Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026 This pitches the family into a year-long journey of the child referencing her past lives—and deaths. —

Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026 Brad Raffensperger pitches himself as a calmer alternative in the governor’s race. —

Adam Beam, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026 There will be plenty of major league scouts with radar guns behind the backstop when Connor pitches this spring. —

Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026 Ditto Dor, a former ballerina who pitches her character’s upwardly mobile striver somewhere between sultry slapstick and interpretive dance. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitches

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Jessie Diggins recently brought home a bronze medal from the Winter Games in Milan, capping off an incredible career on the slopes.

— Marielle Mohs, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
This grass-like, evergreen plant is often used to edge paths, stabilize slopes, and fill areas where not much else will grow.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026