Pitch

A perfect pitch is, uhm, well, it could be a ball thrown perfectly in baseball, or, it could be a note sung or played that is exactly on frequency, or, it could be a speech that is used to convince someone to buy something. Yikes, this pitch word has quite a range, especially when paired with ‘perfect’. When I say I am using a pitch fork I refer to a tool with long tines often used to pick up and throw something like straw.
A pitched roof is one that is not flat, but rather at an angle between vertical and horizontal. Pitch itself is a kind of tar used to soak coarse wool which is then pushed into the cracks between the planks on an old fashioned sailing ship. That pitch is waterproof and the wool keeps it from flowing away. A pitcher’s pen is the place a baseball pitcher warms up before going into the actual game.
A soccer game is played on a field called a soccer pitch, apparently simply the British or Australian word for a field. I like the feel of a pitch when referring to you giving me, say, a ball. It means that ball is flying at 90 plus miles per hour. It is directed exactly at my hands so I can catch it. It is a deliberate and concentrated result of the way you throw it. No, you don’t just toss it, you throw it, and hard.
The pitcher is the one who throws the pitch, and, a pitcher is the vessel that we use to carry and serve the lemonade while we watch the game. Then we also have a pitcher plant which is carnivorous. It eats insects and by some reports, animals as big as small frogs. Hmmm, some people can be like that sometimes. You know, all bright a beautiful and smelling nice, then, wham, they bite you hard.

There are many meanings for the word pitch. Some could be interchangeable sometimes. Like the pitch we hear from some politicians can seem to be the kind of pitch you want to push into the cracks between the boards on a sailing ship hull. The view I like best is the pitch a radio game announcer uses when his favourite pitcher is up while he enjoys a glass from his pitcher. Nice word, huh.