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wild pitch

noun as in baseball throw outside reasonable area

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There were wild pitches and fielding errors, and when the Sox won it was — at least for us fans — like the end of a great movie, where you hope they’re going to win but you don’t know if they can pull it off.

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In the sixth, Turner led off with an infield single but was stranded after reaching second on a wild pitch.

The sequence after the wild pitch was cutter, sinker, cutter, cutter, with the last one clipping the low-and-outside corner as Arenado swung through it.

One cannot attain any wild pitch of hilarity among bolts and bars and Winchester rifles.

The next man to the bat got a hit and on a wild pitch managed to reach third.

It seemed to rouse him from his dreamy state, and awakened him to a wild pitch of excitement.

Lindsay pressed a finger against his nose, which had been broken in youth by a wild pitch.

A wild pitch, the only one of the game, advanced Mylert a base.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wild pitch, such as: erratic pitch, erratic throw, and wild throw.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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