WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
wild′ pitch′, [Baseball.]
- Sporta pitched ball that the catcher misses and could not be expected to catch, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or the batter's reaching first base safely. Cf. passed ball.
- 1865–70, American.
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