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• n  someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
• n  a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
  a reliever of anxiety
• n  a pitcher who does not start the game

• For it was the game's best reliever, Oakland's Dennis Eckersley, protecting a one-run lead with a runner on against the Dodgers' ailing MVP, Kirk Gibson, who volunteered to pinch .
• The best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever and its generic copycats are staples in American medicine cabinets.
• New York reliever Don Liddle had been brought in to face Wertz but now was being taken out of the game.

• stand-in
• substitute
• relief
• backup
• backup man
• fill-in
• allayer
• comforter
• relief pitcher
• fireman

News & Articles

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• Giants Manager Bochy, Reliever Kontos Suspended
  San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy and reliever George Kontos have been suspended after Kontos threw at Pittsburgh Pirates star Andrew McCutchen on Tuesday night.
  June 13, 2013 - New York Times
• Kevin Cowherd: Orioles are in a tough spot with scuffling reliever Pedro Strop
  Reliever is out of options, so expect team to ride him for the time being Forget the goofy way he wears his cap — Pedro Strop has bigger issues to deal with right now. But before Orioles fans jump all over him and the Twitterverse smacks him around like a pinata for days, know this: he's probably not going anywhere.        
  June 13, 2013 - Baltimore Sun
• Rockies move reliever Edgmer Escalona to DL, call up Josh Outman
  The Colorado Rockies placed hard-throwing right-handed reliever Edgmer Escalona on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday because of inflammation in his right elbow.
  June 11, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• Terry Francona in International Herald Tribune
  Mariano Rivera may be the greatest reliever of all-time, but he's not a starter,Francona said. "We will treat every player in this game with a lot of respect, certainly knowing that there are Yankees in this game - but other than that I...
• Carlos Zambrano in ESPN
  I don't like to be a reliever,Zambrano said. "I don't want to be a reliever but this team needs somebody to step up and help out the bullpen."
• Chuck Tanner in SI.com
  He was the most dominating reliever I ever saw. He looked like he was 10 feet tall,' Tanner said. "I kidded him once and told him he was my Marilyn Monroe. He looked at me and said, 'What?' And I said, 'I know I'm never going to take her...