0 in baseball, a ball intentionally thrown fast and too close to the batter's body, forcing the batter to step back. Brushback pitches are against the rules:
As a player, he was never a goody-two-shoes. He threw brushback pitches.
White House officials insist that their foreign policy goal is not to depose the government, but rather to throw a series of brushback pitches.
He might face a brushback pitch or two when he testifies next week before a congressional committee.
Making the government face the prospect of defending the Whitaker appointment constitutes an important brushback pitch.
The main differences in the game from when I played are the money being made and lack of brushbacks.
Play-by-play announcers sometimes call a high brushback pitch as being high and tight.
The brushback pitch was an integral part of his repertoire to back batters off the plate, and was especially tough on right-handed hitters in this respect.
Depending on the exact height and location of the pitch, it can result in a brushback pitch, or, in the case of a badly controlled pitch, a hit batter.
