How to Use wild pitch in a Sentence

wild pitch

noun

• Davies scored on a wild pitch in the top of the first inning.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2022
• The 27-year-old righty then threw a wild pitch to score a run.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2021
• The Sox scored on a wild pitch in the eighth, but that would be all for the offense.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022
• Ryan Braun was at the plate for 12 walk-offs (one was a wild pitch).
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2021
• Sosa led off with a double and went to third on a wild pitch.
  — Aaron Bracy, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
• Brock Burke allows the winning run to score on a wild pitch in the 10th.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
• The Dodgers scored twice in the inning, on a wild pitch and a fielder’s choice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021
• Freeman went from first-to-third on the hit and scored on a wild pitch for a 5-3 lead.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
• Kennedy came across for Texas’ final run on a wild pitch in the sixth.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2021
• White took third on a wild pitch and scored on a groundout.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 June 2021
• Abrams took third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The wild pitch is a mistake; the omission of fanfare is not.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
• The first two batters of the inning walked and both moved up on a wild pitch.
  — Patrick Stevens, ajc, 24 Apr. 2021
• Matt Hogan stole third without a throw and scored on a wild pitch.
  — oregonlive, 12 June 2023
• One wild pitch from Ziehl later, and the Canes were facing a deficit for the first time.
  — Luke Sims, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
• The Dragons took a 7-4 lead in the eighth when Blake Kellermann scored on a wild pitch.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• Wheeler let up one run in the first inning on a wild pitch.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
• With Buxton at the plate again, the runners advanced on a wild pitch.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
• Blackmon scored on a wild pitch in the fourth to get the Rockies within 4-2.
  — Tim Reynolds, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2021
• The wild pitch put the Pirates’ two-run inning in motion.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• The Tigers left the bases loaded, then added another run on a wild pitch in the third.
  — Bill Lumpkin Iii, al, 14 May 2021
• Ralph Garza added a run-scoring wild pitch in the seventh.
  — Dick Scanlon, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2022
• Heaney also singled in the third and scored the Angels’ first run on a wild pitch.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
• But two walks, a hit batter and a wild pitch allowed OSU to break it open.
  — oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2022
• Adolis Garcia struck out on the 10th pitch of his at-bat, but got to first due to a wild pitch.
  — Joe Reedy, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Stewart was 2-for-4 with an RBI, 2 doubles and scored on a wild pitch.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 6 May 2022
• Toro stole second base and advanced to third on a wild pitch.
  — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 18 June 2021
• Aaron Davis drove in two more in the sixth and then scored on a wild pitch to extend the lead to 10-1 over Bangor East.
  — Eamonn Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Ohtani then took second on a wild pitch and eventually scored the Dodgers first run on Teoscar Hernández’ two-out single.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• On Friday night, the team lost to the Detroit Tigers, 4–1, thanks to a typical cluster of errors and wild pitches, to claim the record for most losses outright.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024