Baseball rules pitcher or from the catcher. Effective pitching is critical to a baseball team, as pitching is the key for the defensive team to retire batters and to prevent runners from getting on base. A full game usually involves over one hundred pitches thrown by each team. However, most pitchers begin to tire before they reach this point. In previous eras, pitchers would often throw up to four complete games (all nine innings) in a week. With new advances in medical research and thus a better understanding of how the human body functions and tires out, starting pitchers tend more often
When I Consider How My Light is Spent When I Consider How My Light is Spent "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (d. 1674). The last three lines (concluding with "They also serve who only stand and wait.") are particularly well known, although rarely quoted in context. In the US, it is perhaps most known in pop culture for the Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully, who would recite it when showing a player not in the game. The sonnet was first published in Milton's 1673 Poems. In his autograph notebook (known as