What's the difference between backstop and catcher?
Backstop
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Catcher
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(n.) One who, or that which, catches.
(n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
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(1) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(2) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(3) Jacoby Ellsbury goes to steal second, and the catcher Molina's throw isn't even close allowing Ellsbury to make it to third base with nobody out.
(4) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
(5) That would be strike out it seems, as Napoli foul-tips one into the catcher's mitt, the first strikeout for Matt Moore.
(6) The late author of The Catcher in the Rye, notoriously protective of his privacy, published nothing after the release of his story Hapworth 16, 1924 in the New Yorker, in 1965.
(7) "I'm aware that a number of my friends will be saddened, or shocked, or shocked-saddened, over some of the chapters of The Catcher in the Rye.
(8) If the catcher blocks the runner before he has the ball, the umpire may call the runner safe.
(9) They were the slave catchers Lynn Hampton “The police has had a profound effect on the African American community like no other.
(10) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(11) It didn't even matter that former starting catcher Mike Matheny had replaced the Genius of Tony La Russa as manager, the Cardinals organization is apparently designed for continued success no matter who is in charge.
(12) The publication of The Catcher in the Rye moved Salinger's career into a new phase, though the writer was not there to witness the sensation that accompanied it, preferring to spend the summer of 1951 in Britain so as to avoid the inconvenience of interviews, public appearances and reviews.
(13) These results indicate that chicken catchers are at risk for respiratory dysfunction and emphasize the need to develop measures to minimize their exposure to respiratory toxicants in poultry confinement units.
(14) Greinke strikes him out, that's K number two, and now here comes the "marvelously talented catcher" (Scully) Yadier Molina, or as he is sometimes known - God.
(15) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
(16) O'Connell's In the Rye, in which "Holden Caulfield steps out of the pages of The Catcher in the Rye and into the life of a high school senior searching Manhattan for her missing American lit teacher who has always regarded Salinger's classic novel as a book of revelations and a roadmap of sorts", was acquired by Penguin's US imprint Amy Einhorn Books, reported book rights news website Publishers Marketplace and the New York Times .
(17) The Salinger books would revisit Catcher protagonist Holden Caulfield and draw on Salinger's World War II years and his immersion in eastern religion.
(18) After The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger's rate of production slowed considerably.
(19) It’s quite clear that umpires have no idea to judge the new rule that banned runners from barreling into catchers at the plate, one that came into effect this offseason.
(20) There were many young, disillusioned heroes being studied in the early 60s, Meursault in Camus's The Outsider , McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye .