| has gloss | eng: In baseball, a left-handed specialist is a left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in getting left-handed or poor right-handed switch batters out. These pitchers will commonly only pitch to a very small number of batters in each outing (often just one), and rarely to straight right-handed batters. Most Major League Baseball teams have a couple of left-handed pitchers in their bullpens, one of whom is probably a left-handed specialist. Lefty specialists may also be called, somewhat derisively, a LOOGY (or Lefty One Out GuY). |
