NOUN
- an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base
How To Use wild pitch In A Sentence
- A wild pitch is when the catcher misses it - if a man is on base he can easily steal a base, maybe two.
- Four singles, two of them in the infield, a steal, a wild pitch, a hit batsman, four more runs.
- The Athletics added two more runs in the eighth inning on a wild pitch and a single.
- He gave up eight hits, including a couple of home runs, uncorked one wild pitch, walked two and struck out just one.
- It can be by virtue of a hit, a putout, an error, a forceout, a fielder's choice, a passed ball, a wild pitch, a balk, or a stolen base.
- he threw a wild pitch
- Lumping the two together makes no more sense than lumping together balks and wild pitches.… The same holds for outfielders.
- Sometimes five wild pitches in one inning aren't enough to keep a team from a win.
- Amid almost continuous booing from the sellout crowd of 41,871, Florida's Mike Lowell singled with one out and advance to second on a wild pitch by Garcia. USATODAY.com - After 11 innings, Selig rules game a tie
- Hughes got beaned by a wild pitch.
