How to Use pitched battle in a Sentence

pitched battle

noun

• She has been in a pitched battle with her ex-husband over custody of their children.
• In the second inning, Christian Vazquez won a nine-pitch battle with another home run over the oversized wall in left field.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Two innings later, Altuve ended a seven-pitch battle with Peters by dumping a double in left field.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• Eventually the rookie won an eight-pitch battle by tripling to the gap in right-center, stretching a one-run Brewers lead to 6-3.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2019
• Suter put a great at-bat on Weaver, winning a nine-pitch battle by grounding a double past first baseman José Martinez, who got some leather on the ball.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2018
• The movie’s MacGuffin — the thing all the characters want — is a rare and glowing element called Coaxium that is supposed to power ships into hyperspace but that mostly just powers the plot from one double-cross and pitched battle to the next.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018