Clayton Kershaw

You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.

American Athlete

Tommy Lasorda

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.

American Coach

Jacob deGrom

We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

Jordan Spieth

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

Reggie Jackson

When I hit, I felt I was in control of the home-plate area, and it was important that I felt that way. If I let the pitcher control it, it would give him an advantage.

Ty Cobb

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Yu Darvish

I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.

Japanese Baseball Player

Jamie Moyer

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

Masahiro Tanaka

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

Japanese Athlete

Aroldis Chapman

I want to be the best pitcher in the world.

Cuban Baseball Player

Often found in homes, used daily for practical tasks like serving beverages.

Household Item

Pitchers are made from various materials, such as glass, ceramic, or plastic.

Material Varieties

Used at mealtimes to serve drinks; seen as polite to offer others first.

Serving Etiquette

In baseball, the pitcher is a central player who initiates the play.

Baseball Role

A good pitcher needs to be skilled at throwing different types of pitches.

Pitcher's Skills

Baseball has terms like 'strikeout' related to the pitcher's actions.

Specialized Vocabulary

Pitcher plants are exotic and have features unlike typical houseplants.

Botanical Species

These plants trap insects for nourishment, which is rare in plants.

Carnivorous Nature

Pitcher plants usually grow in tropical areas and require specific care.

Habitat Context

 There were billy possum postcards, billy possum pins, billy possum pitchers for your cream at coffee time. There were smaller billy possums on a stick that kids could wave around like flags. But even with all this marketing, the life of the billy possum turned out to be just pathetically brief.

The strange story of the...

 have an advantage in exposed forests, so brown tawny owls are flourishing today. Several other species have undergone similar climate-change-adaptive genetic changes in recent decades. Pitcher plant mosquitoes have rapidly evolved to take advantage of the warmer temperatures,

Can wildlife adapt to...

 and that would move away from the pitcher's mound slightly faster than the ball. Now at this point, about 30 nanoseconds in, the home plate is far enough away that light hasn't had time to reach it, which means the batter still sees the pitcher about to throw

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 asia australia and madagascar these nepenthes have found a way to take on much larger prey than other carnivorous plants like the venus flytrap named for their long jug-like trap pitcher plants don't have to rely on

This Plant Traps its...

 In these hostile conditions, plants that are able to lure, trap, and digest prey have an advantage over those that rely on soil for their nutrients. Take this inhospitable bog, where pitcher plants reign supreme.

The wild world of...

 and that means that when the rock is released, it's going forward really fast, probably 35 meters per second. That's substantially faster than a baseball thrown by even the finest of baseball pitchers.

The unheard story of...

 my hands on as fergus's do you definitely help keep the extremities warm so I'm going to do a little bit of a looping system now I'm gonna go past sandy pitcher then I'm gonna go down or

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 is alright but if it strays off it it falls into a pond of water and drowns the tiny corpse dissolves and the marsh pitcher absorbs the resulting soup

Exploring the Venus Fly...

 seemed to attract insects that fall into their bowls just as other pitchers do but they also have larger visitors a tree shrew

Bizarre Natural "Toilet"...

 pitcher that's way smaller than a leopard once said and once we said we will just see it limbs of it and then it's gone