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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.
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 ...
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 Detroit Tigers' 3-0 win in Game 3 of the ALDS was a perfect encapsulation of why their bullpen strategy works, shutting out the Guardians.
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 ...
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Chris Young warms up in the bullpen before a game at Wrigley Field minutes before the 12:05 start (see scoreboard clock). In baseball (hardball or softball), a starting pitcher or starter is the first pitcher in the game for each team. A pitcher is credited with a game started if they throw the first pitch to the opponent's first batter of a ...
Dodgers reliever Michael Kopech delivers during Game 3 of the NLCS against the New York Mets on Wednesday. Kopech is among the pitchers who could be part of the Dodgers' bullpen game in Game 6 of ...