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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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wild pitch1
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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]Discover More
Example Sentences
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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