Assertion: pitcher's catcher | /r/CapableOf | catch the ball
Facets:
value: with ordinary effort
type: MANNER
value: from the pitcher
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Starting with the pivot foot on the pitcher's rubber at the center of the pitcher's mound, which is 60 feet 6 inches (18.44 m) from home plate, the pitcher throws the baseball to the catcher, who is positioned behind home plate and catches the ball.
text: The catcher for the pitcher's team waits behind the batter, and catches any ball that the batter does not hit.
text: When a batter takes his/her turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the (home) umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher.
text: A wild pitch (abbreviated WP) is charged to a pitcher when, in the opinion of the official scorer, a pitch is too high, too low, or too wide of home plate for the catcher to catch the ball with ordinary effort, and which allows one or more runners to advance; or allows the batter to advance to first base, if it is a third strike with first base unoccupied.
text: It is difficult for a catcher to catch the ball if he doesn't know what type of pitch is comming, so the pitcher indicates with his glove what type of pitch he is throwing.