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I know this is an elementary question, but how do you differentiate between the two?
Took the words right out of my mouth. :lmao:Depends on who is keeping the book...;&
I am an ex-pitcher and I feel I can give expert insight into this question.
There is no such thing as a wild pitch. They are all passed balls.
Simple as that.
I am an ex-pitcher and I feel I can give expert insight into this question.
There is no such thing as a wild pitch. They are all passed balls.
Simple as that.
Crystle ... even though those scoring guidelines are from baseball, I believe they are essentially identical for fastpitch. There is definitely still judgment involved, but it is clear that if the ball hits the ground before the plate that a wild pitch is charged ... it's not an "oh, the catcher should have blocked it anyhow" which I can't tell you how many times I have heard from pitchers' parents (as you know, I'm a pitcher's parent myself!). The judgment thing basically comes into play on the high and wide pitches as to whether ordinary effort was used. Also, keep in mind that if a baserunner was stealing on the pitch, that the advancement is credited as a stolen base and not as a WP or PB assuming they only got the one base ... sometimes a scorekeeper doesn't know that and when I am coaching, I try to let the scorekeeper know that especially when we're on offense.
As a critical parent of a catcher, I would have to argue that although the 1a rule states "A wild Pitch is...a - Any pitch in the dirt which advances a runner is deemed wild." I would expect my DD to stop/block pitches in the dirt and if she fails to do so, I consider it a passed ball. I don't keep the book, but when it comes to tallying the good and the bad of how my DD played, everything that gets by her is a passed ball unless it is unreachable (far too high to get even when jumping). I don't want her to make excuses for balls in the dirt that might get by her, I'd rather she work a little harder to block those pitches. After speaking with her tonight about this topic, she too considers any pitch that gets by her ,unless it's over her head, to be a passed ball.
As a critical parent of a catcher, I would have to argue that although the 1a rule states "A wild Pitch is...a - Any pitch in the dirt which advances a runner is deemed wild." I would expect my DD to stop/block pitches in the dirt and if she fails to do so, I consider it a passed ball. I don't keep the book, but when it comes to tallying the good and the bad of how my DD played, everything that gets by her is a passed ball unless it is unreachable (far too high to get even when jumping). I don't want her to make excuses for balls in the dirt that might get by her, I'd rather she work a little harder to block those pitches. After speaking with her tonight about this topic, she too considers any pitch that gets by her ,unless it's over her head, to be a passed ball.