Charleston's 11 homers against major-league pitchers in exhibition games ties for the highest total recorded, and he hit them for distance, too.

Most major-league pitchers can throw the ball up to a hundred miles per hour (145 km/h).

Which confirms the scouts' general view: if Jenks can get his head together, he could very well be a dominating major-league pitcher.

I was supposed to be a major-league pitcher!

In this off season no major-league pitchers are being offered more than a two-year contract.

Andy Hawkins, born in Waco, is a former major-league pitcher.

(Coomer saw time at first when it became apparent that Mientkiewicz was not yet ready to face major-league pitchers.)

"Thank you," he said, for yesterday he had been given as good an individual baseball gift as any major-league pitcher could receive.

No matter how the series ends, Maine has proven that he is a legitimate major-league pitcher who can perform under extraordinary pressure.

A large hailstone, moving with the velocity of a baseball tossed by a major-league pitcher, smashed him squarely in the nose.