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wild pitch
[ wahyld pich ]
noun
- a pitched ball that the catcher misses and could not be expected to catch, allowing one or more base runners to advance one or more bases.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wild pitch1
Idioms and Phrases
A careless statement or action, as in Calling comic books great literature鈥攖hat's a wild pitch . This term comes from baseball, where it signifies a pitched ball so far off target that the catcher misses it, enabling a base runner to advance. [Mid-1900s]Compare Meanings
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Example Sentences
A wild pitch cut Santa Margarita鈥檚 lead to one run.
The visitors were in the last chance saloon when Soto led off with a base hit, advanced to second on a wild pitch and was driven in by Giancarlo Stanton to make it 4-2.
The Dodgers passed them with a wild pitch and a Hern谩ndez rocket.
Cruz gave up a run in the first inning on a wild pitch, then retired nine consecutive batters in the second, third and fourth innings.
He threw a wild pitch that gave the Phillies their first lead since the first inning.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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