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Passed ball   /pæst bɔl/   Listen
Passed ball

noun
1.
A pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not; allows a base runner to advance a base.





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"Passed ball" Quotes from Famous Books



... station. Ferris scored him with a drive to left. St. Louis promptly tied the score in its half. Wallace opened with a screeching triple to the bulletin board. At that he would not have scored if J. Stahl had not contributed a passed ball, Heidrick, Friel, and Sugden, the next three batters, expiring on weak infield taps. The Browns got the winning run in the sixth on Martin's triple and Hill's swift cut back of first. Lachance knocked the ball down and got his man at the initial sack, ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks


Words linked to "Passed ball" :   delivery, pitch


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