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Encyclopedia: Wild pitch

In baseball, a wild pitch (abbreviated WP) is charged to a pitcher when a pitch is too high, too short, or too wide of home plate for the catcher to field with ordinary effort, thereby allowing the batter and/or one or more baserunners to advance or to score. When (a) first base is unoccupied and/or (b) there are two outs, the catcher must catch the third strike in order to retire the batter; if a wild pitch occurs on such a third strike, the pitcher is credited with a strikeout, but the batter is not retired—he may attempt to advance to first base and must be tagged with the ball or forced at first in order to effect an out.

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How to say "Wild pitch" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	暴投
	(Japanese)	暴投

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Passed ball

legally pitched ball which should have been held or controlled with ordinary effort, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance. A closely related statistic is the wild pitch. As with many baseball statistics, whether a pitch that gets away from a catcher is a passed ball or wild pitch is at...

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Red Ames

Johnson for the most wild pitches with 156 (though he pitched less than half the innings that Johnson did) and his 30 wild pitches in 1905 is a single season record. After leaving the majors he pitched...; STRIKEOUTS/WALKS 9TH 1.68; WILD PITCHES T8TH 7; BALKS T2ND 1 1907 NL GAMES T7TH 39; SAVES T8TH 1...

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Error (baseball statistics)

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Johnny Allen

; STRIKEOUTS/WALKS 5TH 1.43; SHUTOUTS T3RD 3; WILD PITCHES T9TH 5; HIT BY PITCHES T5TH 5; BALKS T5TH 1 1933... 8.32; STRIKEOUTS/9 IP 2ND 5.79; STRIKEOUTS/WALKS 5TH 1.37; WILD PITCHES T1ST 10; HIT BY PITCHES T6TH 4 1934 AL WILD PITCHES T9TH 5 1935 AL WINNING PERCENTAGE 2ND .684; STRIKEOUTS 5TH 113; ERA 10TH...

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Disco 2

Nude Mix) I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (Dj Pierre Wild Pitch Mix) Go West (Farley...

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Run batted in

if he hits into a double play, if an error is charged on the play, if a run is scored on a wild pitch... pitch with the bases loaded. He will also receive an RBI if a runner scores from his sacrifice fly...

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3rd Bass

work at Wild Pitch, a now defunct label, then founded Serchlight Productions. Nice retired and...

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Baseball statistics

chances TP - Triple play WP - Wild pitch Other terminology Ball Strike Strike zone References... Double play H - Hit HBP - Hit by pitch HR - Home run OBP - On base percentage OPS - On-base plus... Pitching statistics AVG - Opponents batting average BB - Base on balls (also called a "walk") BS - Blown...

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Official scorer

properly received by the catcher is a passed ball (charged to the catcher) or a wild pitch (charged to the...

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Bill Buckner

Boston Red Sox had just squandered their lead for the third time in the game, this time on a wild pitch. It was the bottom of the tenth inning, October 25, 1986, at Shea Stadium, two outs, a runner... to a dozen pitches, Wilson hit a routine ground ball to Buckner at first base. The ball, which had...

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