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View synonyms for wild pitch

wild pitch

[ wahyld pich ]

noun

, Baseball.
  1. 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wild pitch1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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Idioms and Phrases

A careless statement or action, as in Calling comic books great literature—that'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]
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Example Sentences

There were wild pitches and fielding errors, and when the Sox won it was — at least for us fans — like the end of a great movie, where you hope they’re going to win but you don’t know if they can pull it off.

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In the sixth, Turner led off with an infield single but was stranded after reaching second on a wild pitch.

The sequence after the wild pitch was cutter, sinker, cutter, cutter, with the last one clipping the low-and-outside corner as Arenado swung through it.

One cannot attain any wild pitch of hilarity among bolts and bars and Winchester rifles.

The next man to the bat got a hit and on a wild pitch managed to reach third.

It seemed to rouse him from his dreamy state, and awakened him to a wild pitch of excitement.

Lindsay pressed a finger against his nose, which had been broken in youth by a wild pitch.

A wild pitch, the only one of the game, advanced Mylert a base.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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