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wild pitch
noun as in baseball throw outside reasonable area
Weak matches
Example Sentences
George Springer led off with a base hit, was bunted over to second base and advanced to third on a wild pitch.
In the eighth, a wild pitch by Banda advanced Ernie Clement into scoring position, and then he scored on a subsequent single.
The Dodgers set some sort of record for embarrassment with three wild pitches in the decisive seventh.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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