wild pitch

noun

: a baseball pitch not hit by the batter that cannot be caught or controlled by the catcher with ordinary effort and that enables a base runner to advance compare passed ball

Examples of wild pitch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bogaerts then singled in the sixth, advanced on a wild pitch and scored when Pratt bounced his throw from shortstop for an error after Miguel Andujar’s broken bat came flying toward him along with the grounder. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Reliever Erik Sabrowski threw a wild pitch that let the two runners get to second and third, but Tommy Pham flew out without scoring the tying run. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Randal Grichuk drew a walk before Erik Sabrowski's wild pitch with Tommy Pham at the plate advanced the runners to second and third. — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

Still one wonders about the defense after Teoscar Hernández misplayed a Michael Harris II double into a triple in the fifth inning before Kris Bubic threw a wild pitch to plate the go-ahead run. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for wild pitch

• bewitch
• caliche
• distich
• enrich
• bitch
• ditch
• fiche
• glitch
• hitch
• ich
• itch
• kitsch