"To take the pitch" means to step onto a sports field, particularly in sports like soccer or rugby, as a player ready to participate in the game.
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It's a place where publishing industry professionals casually
take pitches from unpublished authors over drinks, while new authors and fans hang out and talk with their favorite writers.
She is
taking pitches for literary fiction, memoir, short story collections, and essay collections.
Even if the reporter does
n't take this pitch, you build credibility by showing you understand the reporter's needs.
They may be delayed however as he was last seen
taking pitches at a batting cage in upstate NY.
The current Sevilla side has little in common with the one that bested Liverpool 16 months ago, however, and of the 14 players who
took the pitch in that game, only 5 remain at the club.
The Miami Marlins» Giancarlo
Stanton took a pitch to the face yesterday, causing a tooth to end up inside his cheek and all but ending his amazing 2014 season.
A big reason for that in recent years has been the money situation and he did amazingly well, just ask the Spuds, Everton, Liverpool and now Man United how much they would love to hear that spine tingling music as their
team takes the pitch in midweek.
After that, though, it will be another 13 days before the Reds
take the pitch again — in a humdinger against Jose Mourinho's rampant Manchester United side, no less — and in that ominously numbered time span, a number of Liverpool players will be representing their country in the final round of qualifiers ahead of next summer's World Cup in Russia.
This has to be every players worst nightmare when getting into the batters box, this and
taking a pitch right to...
With the summer transfer window on the horizon in Europe, Milan have many questions to answer surrounding those at the top of the organizational chart to manager and down to the players
who take the pitch.
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After taking pitches at the Alabama Writing Workshop, I met Erin Hollis at a pitch session, and she is now my newest client.»
Almost too easily, Curtis
took a pitch around the left end for a 38 - yard touchdown, bouncing around the end zone on one stiff leg and then the other, his arms punched down at his side like a WWF fighter.
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Bo took the pitch, sprinted around right end and left me holding on to the grass,» says Millen.
Early in the third quarter receiver Kendall
Wright took a pitch from Griffin and raced for a 37 - yard touchdown that put Baylor up 17 — 7.
Was hit on the same hand on a back swing yesterday,
then takes a pitch to that hand, then gets hit with the bat again to said hand and hurdle still leaves him in?!?! Christ.
In the Chiefs 27 - 20 victory over the Eagles, he aligned inside and outside, was a successful third - down target, was a troublesome deep target,
took a pitch run inside and blocked superbly in several instances in the running game.
It's a separate problem, one that rests with AW, that our players don't
take the pitch with a dominating and winning attitude (a la fergie's teams).
Obviously, due to his loan conditions, Jack will not be able to
actually take the pitch on Sunday at the Emirates, but he has left us in no doubt which team he will cheering for.
If a guy draws a walk on a 3 - 1 count
by taking a pitch that was 3 inches inside instead of getting jammed and hitting a weak ground ball to short I'll take it all day long.
The 19 - year -
old took the pitch at the back before moving into midfield as Ireland lost 1 - 0 but — as Hammers fans have come to understand — looked great in both roles.
In an effort to stem the alarming increase in elbow and shoulder injuries among young baseball pitchers, Little League Baseball adopted important rules in 2007 to limit the number of pitches a pitcher can throw in a game and how much rest he must
take pitching appearances.
The filmmakers struggled desperately in 1991 to secure financing,
taking the pitch all around the Cannes Film Festival.
Raelene Gorlinsky, Publisher of Ellora's Cave, will be presenting at the Colorado Gold Conference and
taking pitch appointments.
I know at least one writer who has received an offer from there unagented (the smart cookie thanked the editor for the offer and got herself an agent to negotiate the deal points, stat), and they
regularly take pitches at writing conferences I've attended.
At the 2018 SF workshop, she is
taking pitches form attendees, and also teaching on writing query letters for novels.
Although once again an ambitious and unusual project, Richard felt confident he could apply his broad experience and the team's increasingly confident skills to deliver a great game, so with design document in hand, Total
Monkery took a pitch to the 2012 indie developers» pilot fund for PlayStation Mobile, a competition at which they came runner - up, and then Creative England's Gameslab, where they they secured a grant to begin development.
In order for me to
take a pitch over the phone even halfway seriously, I needed some prior knowledge of who the caller was, a sense of exactly what they intended to pitch, and confidence that they were specifically interested in my specific magazine.
Some of the primary legal areas include: Employment law (all those getting sick around the time their favourite
squad takes the pitch), the sex - trade (some countries have legalized, others have not and issues that have arisen) and Intellectual Property (FIFA is very protective of everything World Cup - ish).
Putting on my President's hat, the upcoming Liberty States Fiction Writers conference has over a dozen agents and editors who will
take pitches for various genres.
Lynnette will also be
taking pitches on behalf of all acquiring agents at The Seymour Agency.
At the 2018 Chicago event, she is teaching the session «Pursuing a Small Press Publisher for Your Book,» and
also taking pitches from attending writers.
Home plate umpire Tony
Randazzo took a pitch to the jaw during tonight's game one between the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers.
The Miami Marlins» Giancarlo
Stanton took a pitch to the face yesterday, causing a tooth to end up inside his cheek...
Do you think there's actually a club rule that when the
team take the pitch that the defence are forbidden from actually talking to each other??? There appears to be zero communication back there.
It will not be an easy game because they have nothing to lose and will put everything they have from the beginning, so we have to
take the pitch in good spirits and, if we can score an early goal to make the tie difficult for them and put them in a tough position», he explained.
This has to be every players worst nightmare when getting into the batters box, this and
taking a pitch right to the head.