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wild pitch
noun as in baseball throw outside reasonable area
Weak matches
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.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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