An Interval Throwing Program for Baseball Pitchers Based upon Workload Data by Michael M. Reinold, Brittany Dowling, Glenn S. Fleisig, Leonard C. Macrina, Kevin E. Wilk, John T. Streepy, James R. Andrews

“…# Background Interval throwing programs (ITP) have been used for decades to enable baseball pitchers to return to competition after injury or surgery by gradually applying load to the throwing arm. …”
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Investigating if MLB pitchers are self-selecting for high or low drag balls by Sonner, Jessica

“…It was hypothesized that (1) pitchers are routinely selecting for either high or low drag balls, and (2) the regular selection of high drag balls are associated with "better performing" pitchers, or pitchers who have less home runs scored against them, as high drag balls travel less far through the air than low drag balls. …”
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Convergence between the microcosms of Southeast Asian and North American pitcher plants by Bittleston, Leonora S., Wolock, Charles J., Yahya, Bakhtiar Effendi, Chan, Xin Yue, Chan, Kok Gan, Pierce, Naomi E., Pringle, Anne

“…The ‘pitchers’ of carnivorous pitcher plants are exquisite examples of convergent evolution. …”

Fauna diversity in pitcher plants at Setiam Hill, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia by Mohd Top @ Mohd Tah, Marina, Chubo, John Keen, B. R., Caroline, Jabri, Afsar

“…A study was carried out to determine the diversity and enumerate the fauna species related to five pitcher plant species at a selected area in Bukit Setiam Forest, Tatau, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. …”
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Knee Angle and Stride Length in Association with Ball Speed in Youth Baseball Pitchers by Bart van Trigt, Wouter Schallig, Erik van der Graaff, Marco J. M. Hoozemans, Dirkjan Veeger

“…The purpose of this study was to determine whether stride length and knee angle of the leading leg at foot contact, at the instant of maximal external rotation of the shoulder, and at ball release are associated with ball speed in elite youth baseball pitchers. In this study, fifty-two elite youth baseball pitchers (mean age 15.2 SD (standard deviation) 1.7 years) pitched ten fastballs. …”
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Asymptomatic female softball pitchers have altered hip morphology and cartilage composition by Stuart J. Warden, Sally L. Coburn, Robyn K. Fuchs, Rachel K. Surowiec, Julio Carballido-Gamio, Joanne L. Kemp, Peter K. Jalaie, David F. Hanff, Antony J. R. Palmer, Scott J. Fernquest, Kay M. Crossley, Joshua J. Heerey

“…Magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess cartilage relaxation times in a second cohort of pitchers (‘Pitch2’, n = 10) and non-athletic controls (‘Con’, n = 4). …”
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Biomechanical Basis of Interval Throwing Programs for Baseball Pitchers: A Systematic Review by Travis Dias, Benjamin G. Lerch, Jonathan S. Slowik, Kevin E. Wilk, James R. Andrews, E. Lyle Cain, Glenn S. Fleisig

“…If the athlete is a baseball pitcher, the flat-ground throwing phase is followed by pitching on a mound at progressively increased effort. …”
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Inside the trap: Biology and behavior of the pitcher‐dwelling crab spider, Misumenops nepenthicola by Ingolf Karl, Ulrike Bauer

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Biologic Augmentation of the Ulnar Collateral Ligament in the Elbow of a Professional Baseball Pitcher by James K. Hoffman, Nicole M. Protzman, Amit D. Malhotra

“…Therefore, the purpose of the present report was to examine the feasibility of utilizing a dermal allograft, PRP, and MSC construct to augment UCL reconstruction in a professional baseball pitcher. No complications were encountered. Although limited to minimal follow-up, the patient has demonstrated excellent progress and has returned to activity.…”
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Quality of drinking water from the agricultural area treated with pitcher water filters by Elżbieta Królak, Jolanta Raczuk, Danuta Sakowicz, Elżbieta Biardzka

“…The aim of the study was to compare chemical composition of unfiltered water with water filtered in households with pitcher water filters. Obtained results were discussed in view of the effect of analysed chemical components of water on human health. …”
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Sex is determined by XY chromosomes across the radiation of dioecious Nepenthes pitcher plants by Mathias Scharmann, T. Ulmar Grafe, Faizah Metali, Alex Widmer

“…Here, we study the sex‐determination system in a genus of dioecious plants that lack heteromorphic sex chromosomes and are not amenable to controlled breeding: Nepenthes pitcher plants. We genotyped wild populations of flowering males and females of three Nepenthes taxa using ddRAD‐seq and sequenced a male inflorescence transcriptome. …”
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Identifying the underlying mechanisms responsible for glenohumeral internal rotation in professional baseball pitchers by Ryan W. Paul, BS, CSCS, Brandon J. Erickson, MD, Steven B. Cohen, MD, Michael G. Ciccotti, MD, Michael Hefta, MS, ATC, Paul Buchheit, MS, ATC, Joseph Rauch, DPT, ATC, Shawn Fcasni, MS, ATC, Alex Plum, DPT, Aaron Hoback, ATC, Stephen J. Thomas, PhD, ATC

“…Background and Hypothesis: Glenohumeral internal rotation deficit has been identified as a significant risk factor for upper-extremity injuries in pitchers across all ages. Humeral retroversion (HR), posterior capsule thickness (PCT), and posterior rotator cuff muscle pennation angle (PA) have been independently associated with internal rotation range of motion (IR ROM); however, these anatomic structures have not been collectively measured in baseball pitchers to determine the underlying mechanisms responsible for IR ROM. …”
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Potential effects of climate change on members of the Palaeotropical pitcher plant family Nepenthaceae. by Laura K Gray, Charles Clarke, G R William Wint, Jonathan A Moran

“…In this paper, we used maximum entropy modelling (Maxent) to estimate the effects of projected changes in climate on extent of climatically-suitable habitat for two Nepenthes pitcher plant species in Borneo. The model results predicted an increase in area of climatically-suitable habitat for the lowland species Nepenthes rafflesiana by 2100; in contrast, the highland species Nepenthes tentaculata was predicted to undergo significant loss of climatically-suitable habitat over the same period. …”
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Evaluation of pitcher and bottle filters for reducing selected emerging contaminants in drinking water by Magdalena Zarębska, Sylwia Bajkacz, Katarzyna Malorna

“…The efficiency of ECs removal in the pitcher filter was primarily influenced by the BET surface area and micropore volume. …”
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Profiling of a Pitcher’s Performance with a Smart Baseball: A Case Report by Batdelger Doljin, Kwangyul Jeong, Young-Kwan Kim, Franz Konstantin Fuss

“…A pitcher’s action, when delivering a fastball, was analyzed from the data provided by a smart baseball. …”
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Measuring the Average Peak Timing of Kinematic Variables in Youth and Adolescent Baseball Pitchers by Mark Boland, Daniel Zambanini, Ivan Mulligan, Sean Donegan

“… # Purpose To determine whether youth and adolescent baseball pitchers will experience peaks in certain kinematic variables at different times throughout the pitching cycle compared to professional/collegiate pitchers…”
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Performance-environment mutual flow model using big data on baseball pitchers by Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Hiroki Nakata

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Context-dependent dynamics lead to the assembly of functionally distinct pitcher-plant microbiomes by Bittleston, Leonora S., Gralka, Matti, Leventhal, Gabriel Etan, Mizrahi, Itzhak, Cordero Sanchez, Otto X.

“…Using bacterial communities collected from wild pitchers of the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, we test the effects of history on composition and function across communities assembled in synthetic pitcher plant microcosms. …”
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Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution by Chomicki, G, Burin, G, Busta, L, Gozdzik, J, Jetter, R, Mortimer, B, Bauer, U

“…We combined field experiments, microscopy, chemical analyses, and laser Doppler vibrometry with comparative phylogenetic analyses to show that two carnivorous&nbsp;<em>Nepenthes</em>&nbsp;pitcher plant species independently evolved similar adaptations in three distinct traits to acquire a new, composite trapping mechanism. …”

Asymptomatic female softball pitchers have altered hip morphology and cartilage composition by Warden, SJ, Coburn, SL, Fuchs, RK, Surowiec, RK, Carballido-Gamio, J, Kemp, JL, Jalaie, PK, Hanff, DF, Palmer, AJR, Fernquest, SJ, Crossley, KM, Heerey, JJ

“…Magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess cartilage relaxation times in a second cohort of pitchers (‘Pitch2’, n = 10) and non-athletic controls (‘Con’, n = 4). …”