Medication that reduces or eliminates pain.

Major League Baseball annually honors its best relief pitchers in the American League and National League with the Mariano Rivera AL Reliever of the Year Award and Trevor Hoffman NL Reliever of the Year Award, respectively.

Major League Baseball honors its best relief pitchers with a Reliever of the Month Award for one pitcher in the American League and one in the National League during each month of the regular season.

A long reliever or long-relief pitcher is a relief pitcher in baseball who enters the game if the starting pitcher leaves the game early.