switch pitcher

English

Etymology

By analogy with switch hitter.

Noun

switch pitcher (plural switch pitchers)

  1. (baseball) A pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
    • 2000, Brent P. Kelley, The Negro leagues revisited: conversations with 66 more baseball heroes, →ISBN, page 142:
      As the result of a childhood injury, Larry Kimbrough became both a switch hitter and a switch pitcher, and he carried those abilities all the way to the only major leagues available to a black ballplayer in the early 1940s: the Negro League
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