<pitchers> and <pitcherHistory>

Pitchers Element

The pitchers element provides information about the starting pitchers for both teams in a baseball event. It is an element included in the "pitchers" element.

<pitchers>
        <pitcher name="Casey Mize" hand="R" competitor="home" id="sr:player:1473712"/>
        <pitcher name="Christopher Archer" hand="R" competitor="away" id="sr:player:843249"/>
 </pitchers>

PitcherHistory Element

The <pitcher> sub-element can be found also inside the PitcherHistory element with an additional attribute which is "changed_at" which indicates what time the starting pitcher was changed.

An example below of the change of the starting pitcher:

<pitcherHistory>
   <pitcher name="Casey Mize" hand="R" competitor="home" id="sr:player:1473712" changed_at="2021-09-11T22:54:27+00:00"/>
   <pitcher name="Bryan Garcia" hand="R" competitor="home" id="sr:player:1119703" changed_at="2021-09-11T23:15:42+00:00"/>
   <pitcher name="Ian Krol" hand="L" competitor="home" id="sr:player:849464" changed_at="2021-09-11T23:31:21+00:00"/>
   <pitcher name="Andrew Hutchison" hand="R" competitor="home" id="sr:player:843051" changed_at="2021-09-12T00:36:44+00:00"/>
</pitcherHistory>

Attributes of <pitcher> sub-element

Attribute Name	Meaning	Data type	Possible values
name	name of the pitcher	string	name of the pitcher
hand	hand used by the pitcher	string	R, L (right or left)
competitor	which team the pitcher belongs in	string	home, away
id	id of the pitcher as a player	string	example: sr:player:843249
changed_at	timing when the change of the pitcher happened	datetime	date and time