Cliche Averted

For once, the cliche...is not a cliche but just a fact.  It's true: throwing is not pitching.  However, it has been generally treated as a lazy way of saying that a pitcher is not working his craft, but merely throwing the ball as hard as he can.  But Ashley Burnett, coach of Gilbert High in South Carolina, actually used the phrase to differentiate between two radically different activities performed by Austin LaBounty, as reported at TheState.com:

For the last few weeks, he was able to start throwing. We put out of a bucket of balls for him, but that’s not the same as pitching.

Thanks you, Mr. Burnett, thank you.