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in there pitching. People who try hard and keep working are in there pitching. The baseball-derived term suggests a work- horse pitcher doing his best, allowing a hit or walk or run here and there but diligently getting the job done. Interestingly, the expression is not recorded until the Great Depression, when everyone had to be in there pitching to survive. The word pitcher in baseball was first recorded in 1854. |