Wild Pitch

A wild pitch (WP) is an action in baseball or softball is listed and evaluated in baseball statistics. A wild pitch is charged to the pitcher when he so high, so deep, or so far at home plate throws a pitch over the catcher the ball with ordinary effort can not be brought under control and thus one or more sliders allows you to advance.

The counterpart to the wild pitch is the passed ball, which is charged to the catcher. On passed ball is awarded when the catcher a fangbaren with normal effort Pitch does not begin and thus one or more sliders allows you to advance. What is considered a normal cost is decided solely by the Official Scorer, however, constrained by the definition in Rule 2:00 of the baseball rulebook. It is a factual decision of the Offical Scorers that is not subject to appeal.

A pitch that touches the ground before reaching home plate, according to the rule book is always a wild pitch. If in doubt is resolved in favor of the catcher, so rather decided tend to wild pitch. Also the batsman ( batter ) can reach the base, if the wild pitch or passed ball is the third strike.

Most of the ball passes the catcher so that it ends up behind the home plate in the backstop and so the runners will be given the opportunity to reach the next base. Frequently the catcher blocks the pitch from even simple, but has problems then retrieve the ball quickly and take.

A wild pitch is taken only as such in the statistics, if one or more runners may advance one base. A wild pitch is not accounted for in the statistics as Error.

Nolan Ryan leads to the statistics of the wild pitches in modern baseball sport. In 27 years in Major League Baseball, he threw 277 pitches game. The eternal record belongs Tony Mullane of the early baseball years. The player is cast in the period 1881-1894 a total of 343 wild pitches.

The player RA Dickey, Phil Niekro, Walter Johnson, and Kevin Gregg hold with four wild pitches together the record for most WP in one inning.