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(baseball) A pitch that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone in order to prevent a stolen base.
The only thing that had kept the bases from being loaded was that Zimmer (or someone, but let's give him the credit because it was a tough weekend for him) caught the Dodgers stealing with a pitchout on a hit-and-run.
Use pitchout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pitchout means (baseball) A pitch that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone in order to prevent a stolen base.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The only thing that had kept the bases from being loaded was that Zimmer (or someone, but let's give him the credit because it was a tough weekend for him) caught the Dodgers stealing with a pitchout on a hit-and-run.
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