Batter vs. Pitcher — What's the Difference?

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who pitches the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1.

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.

One that pitches.

To damage, as by heavy wear

(Baseball) The player who throws the ball from the mound to the batter.

To attack verbally, as with criticism.

(Sports) A seven iron used in golf.

To harass or distress, as with repeated questions.

A container for liquids, usually having a handle and a lip or spout for pouring.

To deliver repeated heavy blows; pound

(Botany) A pitcherlike part, such as the leaf of a pitcher plant.

To coat in batter

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.

To construct so as to create an upwardly receding slope.

The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

A damaged area on the face of type or on a plate.

(slang) A drug dealer.

The player at bat in baseball and cricket.

One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.

A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, milk, and eggs, used in cooking.

The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.

A slope, as of the outer face of a wall, that recedes from bottom to top.

(obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

(botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.

To intoxicate.

A sort of crowbar for digging.

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.

(baseball) the person who does the pitching;

A binge; a heavy drinking session.

An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

A paste of clay or loam.

The quantity contained in a pitcher

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit;

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

(cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.

(cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

(cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

To slope gently backward.

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Paste of clay or loam.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

A flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

Strike against forcefully;

Strike violently and repeatedly;

Make a dent or impression in;