bull pen

Relief pitcher area

A bull pen is an enclosure for bulls on a farm or ranch.

In baseball, the bullpen is the area where relief pitchers warm up during a game, and by extension refers to the relief pitchers themselves: Their bullpen blew the lead in the eighth inning.

The term also describes any holding area or large open workspace where people are grouped together: The interns worked in a bullpen near the back of the office.

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warm up · warmup · on deck · baseball · bench · left field · holding · holding cell · detention · stockade · cattle · cattle ranch · corral · fence · rodeo · livestock · setup · long reliever

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home plate · pitcher's mound · batter's box · on-deck circle · infield

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Primary pitchers cycling through

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enclosure purpose (original agricultural meaning)

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Unconfined to pens

cattle drive · feedlot

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