pitch in

“That’s what this event is all about,” he said, “people just pitching in.”

When he pitched in the postseason, he was primarily a pitcher, twice batting ninth.

Northampton fly-half Fin Smith, a reported R360 target, made a similar call to Ford last week, extending his terms at Franklin's Gardens, rather than pitch in with the proposed new competition.

“I was just looking for a pitch in the zone that I could hit well,” Pages, who drove a 1-1 change-up into the right-field corner, said in Spanish.

The rap that has dogged Snell throughout his career: peerless stuff with erratic control, leading to him too often making 90 to 100 pitches in five innings rather than seven or eight.