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wild pitch
noun as in baseball throw outside reasonable area
Weak matches
Example Sentences
In the third, however, he followed a leadoff single by Bryan Reynolds with a pair of wild pitches that got by Rushing.
Catchable fly balls drop, wild pitches, poor effort from the bullpen are costly as Dodgers fall to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
One inning after that, Yamamoto went bust, walking Judge, giving up a two-run homer by Ben Rice, then yielding two singles to set up a run-scoring wild pitch.
Later in the inning, the Yankees scored again after Yamamoto gave up two singles and spiked a splitter for a run-scoring wild pitch.
Birmingham had been leading much of the game after taking a 3-2 lead in the third inning on an RBI double by Isaac Monterrubio and a wild pitch.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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