In baseball, the pitcher and catcher are collectively known by which term?

In baseball, the battery consists of a pitcher and catcher from the same team. They may also be called batterymen or batterymates. The term was coined in the 1860s by sports historian Henry Chadwick (1824-1908), who compared the "firepower" of a team’s pitching staff to that of artillery batteries used in the American Civil War.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played on a field by two teams. The pitcher on one team throws a small round ball at a designated strike zone, while a player on the other team tries to hit it with a bat. The player who hits the ball has to run around the field from base to base, eventually returning to the place they started from: the home plate. They need to do this without getting caught by the players on the other team.

In 1845, a group of men in New York formed the first baseball team, or as it was known at the time, the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club. In 1902, the New York Yankees baseball team was formed, which later produced one of the best batteries in baseball history. The catcher, Yogi Berra (1925-2015) and the pitcher, Whitey Ford (1928-2020) were World-Series level players who were batterymates with the Yankees since 1950. They played a total of 212 games together.