1. I never before realized how many baseball terms in English involve the modification of a noun by another noun. I'm having real trouble deciding how to handle these modifying nouns in the Latin. Genitive? Dative? Ablative? Prepositional phrase? This has become such a common problem that I have introduced into the glossary a symbol, (#), to mark such areas of uncertainty. These will need to be cleared before the terms involved can be considered "accepted".
2. I am about to reproduce here the current version of the Pitching Section. It will be noted that I have proposed a number of new terms. The iactus citus digito tertio is not intended as joke, but rather as a description of the way a cutter is thrown, with extra pressure from the long finger. "Pitchout" is hard. I think we need to save ejectio, etc. for other purposes. The current version follows:
Pitching:
pitch (or throw): iactus, -us (m)
to pitch (or to throw): iacere
ball (pitch not a strike): pila, -ae (f)
strike: ?laesio, -onis (f) /ferita, -ae (f) /straica. -ae.
windup: positio suculae (#), To wind up: suculam facere.
set: positio praesto
to stretch: pandiculor, -ari, -atus The stretch: pandculari /pandicuandi.
to kick: calcitro, -are, -avi, -atus. The kick: calx, calcis (f).
to slide-step: labenter gradi; slide-step: gradus labens.
fastball: iactus citus.
tailing /moving fastball: iactus citus movens.
four-seam fastball: iactus citus quattuor suturis (#).
two-seam fastball: iactus citus duobus suturis (#).
cut fastball /cutter: iactus citus digito tertio (#).
breaking ball: iactus declinatus.
curve: iactus curvatus.
hanging curve; iactus curvatus suspensus.
slider: iactus labens.
screwball: iactus recurvatus.
sinker : iactus declivis.
split-finger pitch: iactus digitis separatis (#)
forkball: iactus furcilla (#)
changeup: iactus mutatus.
straight change: iactus mutatus rectus.
circle change: iactus (mutatus) circulo.(#)
three-finger change: iactus mutatus tres digitis.(#)
palmball: iactus (mutatus) palma (#)
knuckleball: iactus unguibus (#).
knuckle curve: iactus unguibus curvatus .(#)
pitchout:
pitch that is
high: altus
low: humilis
in the dirt: in humum
inside: proximus
outside: ultimus
backdoor:
down the middle: in medio
wild pitch: iactus indomitus.
balk: haesitatio, haesitationis (f)
3. While we are on the general subject of pitching, I would like to propose one additional term, or pair of terms, which I suppose should go in the Field of Play Section:
pitcher's plate /rubber: scutula /cummis (iaculatoris).
No (#) here; I'm pretty sure the genitive is what we want for this one.