Baseball games get interesting when pitchers start pinch-hitting or playing right field.

The four pitchers started 142 of the Orioles' 158 regular-season games.

To win all three games, of course, a pitcher must start by winning the first, and Brown failed to do that last night.

But a pitcher getting his brains beat out will start throwing at people.

The starting pitcher had not started a game in almost four years.

No other pitcher has enough starts left to reach 20.

Time will not be granted if the pitcher has already started his pitching motion.

But some pitchers started occasionally with only two days of rest.

The Pirates' pitchers started 37 games collectively for them last year.

In contrast to that season was 1987, when 15 pitchers started games.