Pitch (baseball)

Pitch - in baseball, the act of throwing the ball toward the home plate to start play. Article “Pitch (baseball)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Pitch (baseball)”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 269 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1802 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1488 in October 2015
• Global: #42528 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13847 in December 2023
• Global: #51422 in May 2008

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Pitch (baseball)		41.821
2	French (fr) Lancer (baseball)		22.8902
3	Italian (it) Lancio (baseball)		21.7188
4	Japanese (ja) 投球		20.2597
5	Chinese (zh) 棒球球路		17.5337
6	Simple English (simple) Pitch (baseball)		15.6014
7	Spanish (es) Lanzamiento (béisbol)		14.2016
8	Danish (da) Pitch (baseball)		9.2106
9	Korean (ko) 투구 (야구)		3.5316

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pitch (baseball)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pitch (baseball)		1 810 043
2	Spanish (es) Lanzamiento (béisbol)		822 254
3	Japanese (ja) 投球		186 861
4	Chinese (zh) 棒球球路		41 245
5	French (fr) Lancer (baseball)		19 991
6	Danish (da) Pitch (baseball)		10 969
7	Italian (it) Lancio (baseball)		7 605
8	Simple English (simple) Pitch (baseball)		7 115
9	Korean (ko) 투구 (야구)		6 981

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pitch (baseball)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pitch (baseball)		5 915
2	Japanese (ja) 投球		643
3	Simple English (simple) Pitch (baseball)		534
4	Chinese (zh) 棒球球路		465
5	Spanish (es) Lanzamiento (béisbol)		464
6	Korean (ko) 투구 (야구)		213
7	French (fr) Lancer (baseball)		190
8	Italian (it) Lancio (baseball)		70
9	Danish (da) Pitch (baseball)		32

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Pitch (baseball)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pitch (baseball)		163
2	Spanish (es) Lanzamiento (béisbol)		40
3	Japanese (ja) 投球		25
4	French (fr) Lancer (baseball)		9
5	Simple English (simple) Pitch (baseball)		9
6	Danish (da) Pitch (baseball)		8
7	Italian (it) Lancio (baseball)		5
8	Korean (ko) 투구 (야구)		5
9	Chinese (zh) 棒球球路		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Pitch (baseball)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pitch (baseball)		1
2	Danish (da) Pitch (baseball)		0
3	Spanish (es) Lanzamiento (béisbol)		0
4	French (fr) Lancer (baseball)		0
5	Italian (it) Lancio (baseball)		0
6	Japanese (ja) 投球		0
7	Korean (ko) 투구 (야구)		0
8	Simple English (simple) Pitch (baseball)		0
9	Chinese (zh) 棒球球路		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Pitch (baseball)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Lancio (baseball)		820
2	English (en) Pitch (baseball)		437
3	Japanese (ja) 投球		323
4	Korean (ko) 투구 (야구)		119
5	Spanish (es) Lanzamiento (béisbol)		46
6	Danish (da) Pitch (baseball)		25
7	Chinese (zh) 棒球球路		22
8	French (fr) Lancer (baseball)		5
9	Simple English (simple) Pitch (baseball)		5

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Pitch (baseball)
en	English Pitch (baseball)
es	Spanish Lanzamiento (béisbol)
fr	French Lancer (baseball)
it	Italian Lancio (baseball)
ja	Japanese 投球
ko	Korean 투구 (야구)
simple	Simple English Pitch (baseball)
zh	Chinese 棒球球路

Best Rank

Simple English: #13847 12.2023

Global: #51422 05.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #1488 10.2015

Global: #42528 05.2004

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