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    Passed Balls vs Wild Pitches

    I recently had a conversation with my daughter’s catching coach, who played baseball, and he said pitches in the dirt are wild pitches. Here’s the wild pitches so far this year in MLB. Do softball rules on passed balls differ from baseball? I’m curious if the wild pitches shown in this tweet...
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    Girls Softball Drills Catchers Catcher working on the passed ball

    CATCHING: BACKSTOP DRILL One thing I like to have my catchers work on is retrieving balls near the backstop and making the play at the plate. I dump a bucket of balls along the backstop behind the catcher. The catcher starts in her usual stance; the pitcher starts approximately halfway to home...
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