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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 not yet played in a game, rather than in the dugout with the rest of the team.
Cleveland Indians (now Cleveland Guardians) relief pitchers Aaron Fultz and Rafael Betancourt warming up in the bullpen at Jacobs Field in 2007. In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who pitches in the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher has been removed from the game due to fatigue, injury, ineffectiveness, ejection, high pitch count, or for ...
The bullpen catcher is a member of a baseball team's staff, often a former professional player, who catches the ball for relief pitchers warming up before entering a game and starting pitchers before games. [1] A bullpen catcher differentiates from a typical catcher as they are considered a coach and not a player, thus they cannot be behind ...
Usually, that would mean a bullpen game. But now, the Dodgers finally are starting to have more pitching options. Hernández won’t be ready to pitch Sunday, but another minor-league arm, Landon ...
MLB hopes it can implement a rule that forbids bullpen games such as Game 4 of the World Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers.
Trying to give the rotation some extra rest, the Dodgers turn to their bullpen in a victory over the Giants.
Sergio Romo's emergence as an opener popularized the practice in 2018.. In baseball, an opening pitcher, more frequently referred to as an opener, is a pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs in a game, before being replaced by a long reliever or a pitcher who would typically be a starting pitcher.
After being used sparingly in Game 5, the Dodgers' bullpen will be tasked with helping the team win Game 6 of the NLCS against the New York Mets.